Detectives in Mysteries

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Across
  1. 4. African-American private investigator, a hard-boiled detective and World War II veteran
  2. 7. wisecracking, hard-drinking, tough private eye
  3. 8. family motto "As my Whimsy takes me."
  4. 14. Alphabet crimes
  5. 15. One for the money
  6. 16. little gray cells
  7. 19. Secretary Della Street
  8. 21. Colin Dexter's detective
  9. 22. made his first appearance in Poe's 1841 short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
Down
  1. 1. Detective Hieronymus
  2. 2. Sûreté du Québec
  3. 3. detective chief inspector new scotland yard
  4. 5. It's elementary...
  5. 6. a mystery writer in New York City who helps his police inspector father solve baffling murders
  6. 9. former Seattle Homicide Inspector
  7. 10. benedictine monk and herbalist
  8. 11. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
  9. 12. maltese falcon detective
  10. 13. a forensic anthropologist, who investigates human remains at crime scenes where the flesh is too degraded for a coroner to obtain evidence
  11. 17. a brilliant, oversized, eccentric armchair detective who raises orchids
  12. 18. the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming
  13. 20. a formerly renowned basketball player who is the owner of MB SportsReps, an agency representing sports stars and celebrities