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  2. List of fictional detectives - Wikipedia

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    Nancy Drew – High school sleuth, created by Edward Stratemeyer. C. Auguste Dupin – upper class character created by Edgar Allan Poe. Dupin made his first appearance in Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), widely considered the first detective fiction story. [2] Dr Gideon Fell – "lexicographer" and drinker, created by John Dickson ...

  3. Sam Spade - Wikipedia

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    Sam Spade is a fictional character and the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon. Spade also appeared in four lesser-known short stories by Hammett. Spade also appeared in four lesser-known short stories by Hammett.

  4. Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective (gamebook) - Wikipedia

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    Games included this game' in its top 100 games of 1986, commenting "The 10 cases supplied are detailed and atmospheric, giving you the uncanny feeling of actually living in a Holmes story." [10] In the January 1990 edition of Games International (Issue 12), Kevin Jacklin called it "The best of all the Sherlock Holmes games." He commented that ...

  5. Monsieur Spade’s Clive Owen Talks Playing an Iconic Sleuth ...

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    Sam Spade is back on the case. The iconic private detective famously played by Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon is coming to AMC in Monsieur Spade (premiering this Sunday at 9/8c), with Clive ...

  6. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.

  7. Nero Wolfe - Wikipedia

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    Adee was a scholar, sleuth, gourmet, bachelor, a model of efficiency, a master of the English language, and is said to have inspired the characterization of Wolfe. Other than Adee, Rex Stout's maternal grandmother, Emily Todhunter, who was obese requiring a special chair and was addicted to atlases, dictionaries & flowers and also an omnivorous ...

  8. C. Auguste Dupin - Wikipedia

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    Le Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin [oɡyst dypɛ̃] is a fictional character created by Edgar Allan Poe.Dupin made his first appearance in Poe's 1841 short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", widely considered the first detective fiction story. [1]

  9. Ulta apologizes for 'insensitive choice of words' about late ...

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    Ulta Beauty has issued an apology after an email was sent to customers inviting them to "hang" with late fashion icon Kate Spade, who died by suicide in 2018. Ulta apologizes for 'insensitive ...