NOTE: This list was originally found here: http://www.bookbrowser.com/Sleuths/Religion.html

Sleuths by Occupation: Religion

List of detectives/sleuths from mystery novels and stories in which the sleuth is a religious clergyperson.

The name in parentheses is the name of the author.

Nun

Sister Joan (Black, Veronica)
Sister Frevisse (Frazer, Margaret)
Christine Bennett (Harris, Lee)
Sister Agnes (Joseph, Alison)
Bridget O'Toole (McConnell, Frank)
Catherine Levendeur (Newman, Sharan)
Sister Mary Helen (O'Marie, Sister Carol Anne)
Sister Mary Teresa Dempsey (Quill, Monica)
Brigid Donovan (Saum, Karen)
Sister Fidelma (Tremayne, Peter)

Priest

Antoinette Charboneau (Boudreaux, Aleta)
Father John O'Malley (Coel, Margaret)
Father Robert Koesler (Kienzle, William X.)
Father Roger Dowling (McInerny, Ralph)
Reverend Lucas Holt (Meyer, Charles)

Monk

Brother Athelstan (Harding, Paul)
Brother Bartholomew (Manuel, David)
Brother Cadfael (Peters, Ellis)

Rabbi

Rabbi David Small (Kemelman, Harry)
Rabbi Daniel Winter (Telushkin, Joseph)

Catholic Bishop

Blackie Ryan (Greeley, Andrew)

Chapman

Roger the Chapman (Sedley, Kate)

Episcopal Priest

Reverend Lucas Holt (Meyer, Charles)

Clerk of Meeting

Elizabeth Elliot (Allen, Irene)

Methodist Minister

Rev. Dan Thompson (Feldmeyer, Dean)

This page was originally created in 1996. It was last modified 31 August 2001. This list was copied to this location (Adherents.com) on 10 February 2005.