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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]
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)
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
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. 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 .
Natalie Cook (Cameron Diaz) is a private detective in the 2000 film Charlie's Angels and sequel Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle 2003. Bertha Cool is a private investigator in the Cool and Lam series by American A. A. Fair 1939–1970; Jane Darwell in a lost 1955 TV show based on 1939 debut The Bigger They Come ; Benay Venuta in pilot based ...
Police detective films (5 C, 468 P) Q. Ellery Queen films (11 P) S. Sexton Blake films (7 P) Sherlock Holmes films (1 C, 68 P) V. Philo Vance films (15 P)
Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive [episodes 1, 3, 5-10, 35mm positive]. The Fire Detective: 10 Crime Spencer Gordon Bennet: Gladys McConnell, Hugh Allan (considered lost) Queen of the Northwoods: 10 Northern: Spencer Gordon Bennet: Walter Miller, Ethlyne Clair: Incomplete print believed to exist Universal Pictures: The ...
Jules Maigret (French: [ʒyl mɛɡʁɛ]), or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a commissaire ("commissioner") of the Paris Brigade Criminelle (Direction Régionale de la Police Judiciaire de Paris:36, Quai des Orfèvres), created by writer Georges Simenon.