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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] Later, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes became the most famous example and remains so to this day. The ...
Detective Stella Bonasera – CSI: NY (played by Melina Kanakaredes) DS Camille Bordey – Death in Paradise; Detective Harry Bosch – Michael Connelly (played by Titus Welliver) Detective Constable Gary Boyle – Ben Elton (played by Mark Addy in The Thin Blue Line) Detective Braenders – The Light in the Dark (played by Charles Mussett)
Detective Danny Reagan, Blue Bloods; Detective Inspector John Rebus, by Ian Rankin; Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds; Arkady Renko, of the Moscow Militsya, by Martin Cruz Smith; Dave Robicheaux, by James Lee Burke; Detective Inspector Jack Robinson, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries; Jim Rockford, The Rockford Files; Lincoln Rhyme, by Jeffery Deaver
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death (1992) Precious Ramotswe: Alexander McCall Smith: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency [20] (1998) Jeff Randall: Dennis Spooner: Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (TV) (1969) Sunny Randall: Robert B. Parker: Family Honor [21] (1999) Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins: Walter Mosley: Devil in a Blue Dress (1990) Jim Rockford ...
Detective fiction in modern Russian literature with clear detective plots started with The Garin Death Ray (1926–1927) and The Black Gold (1931) by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Mess-Mend by Marietta Shaginyan, The Investigator's Notes by Lev Sheinin. [54] Boris Akunin is a famous Russian writer of historical detective fiction in modern-day ...
And further: "Of course, H.M. is so much the best detective that, once having invented him, his creator could get away with any plot." There is a book-length critical study by S. T. Joshi, John Dickson Carr: A Critical Study (1990) (ISBN 0-87972-477-3) and a chapter on Carr in Joshi's book Varieties of Crime Fiction (2019) ISBN 978-1-4794-4546-2.
Robert Brown Parker (September 17, 1932 – January 18, 2010) was an American writer, primarily of fiction within the mystery/detective genre. His most famous works were the 40 novels written about the fictional private detective Spenser.
Mr. Wong, Detective (1938) Mysterious Mr. Moto (1938) Nancy Drew... Detective (1938) The Saint in New York (1938) Tom Sawyer, Detective (1938) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939) The Cat and the Canary (1939) The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) Mystery of Mr. Wong (1939)