Should the book be character-driven?
True		False

Should the book be plot-driven?
True		False

Should the quality of the writing be high?
True		False

Should the plot depend on technical ingenuity (gadgets and obscure scientific points)?
True		False

Should the plot depend on a surprise solution?
True		False

Should the detective be an amateur?
True		False

Should the detective be a professional policeman?
True		False

Should the pace be brisk, with several murders?
True		False

Should the pace be slow, with a great deal of circumstantial evidence?
True		False

Should the book be drily mathematical, with an emphasis on alibis and timetables?
True		False

Should it have a touch of fantasy or the supernatural?
True		False

Should it be humorous?
True		False

Should the plot be a complex maze with several winding paths and a thousand sub-plots?
True		False

Should the book focus on the behind the scenes workings of a school, university, business, etc.?
True		False

Should it be concerned with social or moral problems?
True		False

Should the author derive many of his ideas from actual crimes?
True		False

Should the crime be impossible (locked room, no footprints in the snow)?
True		False

Should the crime be committed in a real and recognisable location (Oxford or the Nile)?
True		False

Should the bulk of the author's detective work lie in short stories (or, as in the case of Christie, have written several volumes of short stories)?
True		False

Should the author's oeuvre be large?
True		False