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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]
Detective Kate Beckett – Castle, Andrew W. Marlowe (played by Stana Katic) Detective Cal Beecher – Person of Interest (played by Sterling K. Brown) Detective Mick Belker – Hill Street Blues (played by Bruce Weitz) Detective Olivia Benson (later, Sergeant, then Lieutenant, then Captain) - played by Mariska Hargitay on Law & Order: SVU
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 author who created the team appears in parentheses. Detective Duos: Anabel and Looker – Author Bryant and John May – (Christopher Fowler)
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
Sherlock Holmes (/ ˈ ʃ ɜːr l ɒ k ˈ h oʊ m z /) is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle.Referring to himself as a "consulting detective" in his stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients ...
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 ...
Detective Creator Debut Karen Andersen: Louise Burfitt-Dons: The Missing Activist [1] (2018) Angel: Joss Whedon: Angel (TV) (1999) Harry Angel: William Hjortsberg: Falling Angel (1978) Lew Archer: Ross Macdonald: The Moving Target (1949) Bilqees "Bobby" Ahmed: Samar Shaikh Bobby Jasoos (2014) Jagga Bagchi: Anurag Basu: Jagga Jasoos (2017 ...
James Bond in the movies based on Ian Fleming's novels, which also include CIA agent Felix Leiter. See List of James Bond allies for a complete list of 00 agents and secret agents found throughout the movies. Jason Bourne from Bourne trilogy based on the novels by Robert Ludlum; Jason Monk from the 2005 film Frederick Forsyth's Icon