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Cloo (stylized as cloo), formerly known as Sleuth, was an American pay television channel owned and operated by NBCUniversal which aired programming originally dedicated to the crime and mystery genres, though it often fell out of this format in its later years with a more generic selection of series and films, and was used as an example of channel drift and superfluous channel bundling ...
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 ...
This is a list of fictional detective teams from popular detective fiction.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.
The Toff, The Honourable Richard Rollison, is an aristocrat and an amateur sleuth. ("Toff" is a British slang expression for an aristocrat.) During World War II, he created the character of Dr. Stanislaus Alexander Palfrey, a British secret service agent, who forms Z5, a secret underground group that owes its allegiance to the Allies.
Adolphe Barreaux, who drew the much racier Sally The Sleuth, was the first to draw Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective in the 1940s (the stories by Bellem). [3] All the Dan Turner stories are written in the first person, in a racy, slang-ridden style that gives them a unique flavor. Guns are never "guns" but "roscoes", and they always go "ka-chow ...
Sleuth is a 1970 play written by Anthony Shaffer. The Broadway production received the Tony Award for Best Play , and Anthony Quayle and Keith Baxter received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance.
Joseph Rouletabille (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛf ʁultabij]) is a fictional character created by Gaston Leroux, a French writer and journalist.Rouletabille is an amateur sleuth featured in several novels and other works, often presented as a more capable thinker than the police.
In 1971, a feature film was released consisting of eleven redrawn colorized Mutt and Jeff silent films, with the short Slick Sleuths used as the frame, titled The Weird Adventures of Mutt & Jeff and Bugoff, which added new dialogue and soundtrack songs. In this film, Mutt and Jeff are USA government agents, and they have been assigned to track ...