One literary character with this profession is stranded in Fenchurch St. Paul on New Year's Eve and decides to take part in an all night bell-changing. One man with this profession mentions the giant rat of Sumatra in one story and in an earlier tale insults a predecessor who once replaced a letter possessed by Minister D with a fake. A friar in the Umberto Eco novel, The Name of the Rose, also takes up this profession. That character's name, William of Baskerville, alludes to the work done by the world's only consulting one of these who first appeared in A Study in Scarlet. For ten points, na
One literary character with this profession is stranded in Fenchurch St. Paul on New Year's Eve and decides to take part in an all night bell-changing. One man with this profession mentions the giant rat of Sumatra in one story and in an earlier tale insults a predecessor who once replaced a letter possessed by Minister D with a fake. A friar in the Umberto Eco novel, The Name of the Rose, also takes up this profession. That character's name, William of Baskerville, alludes to the work done by the world's only consulting one of these who first appeared in A Study in Scarlet. For ten points, name this profession held by Edgar Allan Poe's Auguste Dupin and by the partner of Watson, Sherlock Holmes.
One literary character with this profession is stranded in Fenchurch St. Paul on New Year's Eve and decides to take part in an all night bell-changing.
{Detective}s [accept reasonable equivalents]