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They are often popularized as individual characters rather than parts of the fictional work in which they appear. Stories involving individual detectives are well-suited to dramatic presentation, resulting in many popular theatre, television, and film characters. The first famous detective in fiction was Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin. [1]
This is a list of fictional male detective characters from novels, short stories, radio, television, and films. A. Detective Chief-Inspector Roderick Alleyn ...
Detective Chimp: John Broome and Carmine Infantino: Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog #4 (July–August 1952) Emerson Cod: Bryan Fuller: Pushing Daisies (TV) (2007) Elvis Cole: Robert Crais: The Monkey's Raincoat (1987) The Continental Op: Dashiell Hammett: The Tenth Clew [5] (1924) Alexa Crowe: Claire Tonkin: My Life Is Murder (TV) (2019 ...
Below is an alphabetical list of fictional police detectives and their creators (with, in many cases, the actor/actress most known for playing the character in a dramatisation). This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
This list includes pairs or groups of characters who appear in a series of novels or short stories, not characters who are teamed only for a single story. Where two detectives work together, they are listed as A and B; where a single detective is regularly accompanied by a non-detecting sidekick or chronicler they are listed as A with B. The ...
Sarge Steel is a detective/spy character published by Charlton Comics during the 1960s. As he was published during the time of Charlton's Action Heroes line of superheroes, and had loose ties to some, he is sometimes included with that group.
The character of Sam Spade is based on the detective featured in Dashiell Hammett's famous 1930 crime mystery novel, The Maltese Falcon. Spade also appears in several other lesser known Hammett ...
D.D. McCall is an L.A. police detective and partner of the title character, played by Stephanie Kramer from 1985 to 1991 on the NBC series Hunter (1984 American TV series). Blue McCarron is a reclusive lesbian social psychologist appearing in two novels by Abigail Padgett, who also writes a series featuring Bo Bradley.