Can I humbly suggest a few more “detectives with literary ambitions” you may or may not know already?

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán’s Pepe Carvalho is a survivor of Franco’s purges, solving crimes and describing recipes in late-1980s Barcelona. (Spanish)

Andrea Camilleri’s Salvo Montalbano brings justice to the decadent and complicated Sicilian society of today. (Italian)

Both spawned several books, and have been translated to most languages at some point or another. Both draw a lot from Simenon, but have their distinctive styles (Camilleri in the Italian original uses a pidgin dialect that calls to Gadda and Joyce; and MVM is obsessed with food and politics).