This is a list of fictional detective teams from popular detective fiction. This list includes pairs or groups of characters who appear in a series of novels or short stories, not characters who are teamed only for a single story.

Where two detectives work together, they are listed as A and B; where a single detective is regularly accompanied by a non-detecting sidekick or chronicler they are listed as A with B. The author who created the team appears in parentheses.

Detective Duos:

  • Anabel and Looker – (Game Freak)
  • Author Bryant and John May – (Christopher Fowler)
  • Cagney & Lacey - (Barbara Avedon and Barbara Corday)
  • Cool and Lam – (Erle Stanley Gardner as A. A. Fair)
  • Dalziel and Pascoe – (Reginald Hill)
  • Detective Pikachu/Harry Goodman and Tim Goodman – (Dan Hernandez, Benji Samit, Rob Letterman, Derek Connolly)
  • Frank and Joe Hardy – (Franklin W. Dixon)
  • Grijpstra and de Gier – (Janwillem van de Wetering)
  • Hawk and Fisher – (Simon Green)
  • Janet Scott and Rachel Bailey – (Sally Wainwright)
  • Jayanta and Manik – (Hemendra Kumar Roy)
  • Lord Darcy and Sean O'Lochlainn – (Randall Garrett)
  • Morse and Robert Lewis – (Colin Dexter)
  • Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin – (Rex Stout)
  • Nick and Nora Charles – (Dashiell Hammett)
  • Nick Wilde and Judy Hops – (Clark Spencer)
  • Richard Poole and Camille Bordey – (Robert Thorogood)
  • Shawn Spencer and Burton Guster – (Steve Franks)
  • Solomon and Lord – (Paul Levine)
  • Thomson and Thompson – (Georges Prosper Remi as Hergé)
  • Tommy and Tuppence Beresford – (Agatha Christie)
  • Travis McGee and Meyer – (John D. MacDonald)
  • Waxillium Ladrian and Wayne – (Brandon Sanderson)

Detective with X Duos:

  • Adrian Monk with Natalie Teeger – (Andy Breckman)
  • Arjun with Amal Shome – (Samaresh Majumdar)
  • Byomkesh Bakshi with Ajit Banerjee – (Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay)
  • Columbo with Dog – (Richard Levinson and William Link)
  • Dipak Chatterjee with Ratanlal – (Swapan Kumar)
  • Elijah Baley with R. Daneel Olivaw – (Isaac Asimov)
  • Feluda with Topshe – (Satyajit Ray)
  • Hercule Poirot with Arthur Hastings – (Agatha Christie)
  • Hildegarde Withers with Inspector Oscar Piper – (Stuart Palmer)
  • Inspector Lynley with Sergeant Havers – (Elizabeth George)
  • Kakababu with Sontu – (Sunil Gangopadhyay)
  • Kate Beckett with Richard Castle – (Andrew W. Marlowe)
  • Kiriti Roy with Subrata Roy – (Nihar Ranjan Gupta)
  • Martin Beck with Gunvald Larsson – (Sjöwall and Wahlöö)
  • Master Li with Number Ten Ox – (Barry Hughart)
  • Michael Knight with KITT – (Glen A. Larson)
  • Mitin Masi with Tupur – (Suchitra Bhattacharya)
  • Niladri Sarkar with Jayanta – (Syed Mustafa Siraj)
  • Parashor Barma with Krittibas Bhadra – (Premendra Mitra)
  • Phoenix Wright with Maya Fey – (Shu Takumi)
  • Shabor Dasgupta with Nanda – (Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay)
  • Sherlock Holmes with Dr. John H. Watson – (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
  • Sister Fidelma with Brother Eadulf – (Peter Tremayne)

Detective Groups:

  • Armed Detective Agency – (Kafka Asagiri)
  • Detective Boys – (Gosho Aoyama)
  • Mystery Incorporated – (Hanna-Barbera)