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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)
Lance Spearman, in African Film magazine; Doctor Spektor, Doctor Spektor; Shawn Spencer, Psych; Spenser, by Robert B. Parker; Detective Elliot Stabler, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Nigel Strangeways, by Cecil Day-Lewis; Professor John Stubbs, by Ruthven Todd; Detective Matthew Scudder, by Lawrence Block; Shuichi Saihara, Danganronpa V3 ...
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 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. [57] Boris Akunin is a famous Russian writer of historical detective fiction in modern-day ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.