Armchair detective

[citation needed] Lancelot Priestley appeared in a long-running series of novels by Cecil Street after making his debut in The Paddington Mystery (1925).

[2] A very literal example is Nero Wolfe, created by Rex Stout in 1934, who only leaves his house in exceptional circumstances, typically delegating the legwork for his cases to his assistant.

"[citation needed] Marian Phipps, a character appearing from 1937 in stories by Phyllis Bentley, is a detective novelist who begins solving cases that a policeman friend relates to her.

[3] More recent examples include L Lawliet from Death Note (2004), who reads case files to find unsolved crimes, which he then investigates.

[citation needed] Lord El-Melloi II, in the light novel Fate/strange Fake (2006) provides a number of tips and solutions relating to the Holy Grail War taking place in North America, while he is in London.

Mycroft Holmes instructing his brother from an armchair, in the story of The Greek Interpreter