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These detectives include amateurs, private investigators and professional policemen. 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.
Inspector Nayland Smith – Sax Rohmer (played by O.P. Heggie and Lewis Stone) Police Chief Jesse Stone – Robert B. Parker (played by Tom Selleck) Detective Lieutenant Michael Stone – Carolyn Weston (played by Karl Malden in The Streets of San Francisco) Detective Milo Sturgis (later Lieutenant) – Jonathan Kellerman.
Tex Murphy. Chris Jones. Mean Streets (Video Game) (2004) Mr. Nadgett. Charles Dickens. Martin Chuzzlewit. He was the first fictional private investigator [18] Nameless Detective. Bill Pronzini.
Castle (TV series) Charlie's Angels. Charlie's Angels (2011 TV series) Chase (1973 TV series) Checkmate (American TV series) City of Angels (1976 TV series) The Closer. Clue Club. Columbo.
Columbo. Columbo is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. [2][3] After two pilot episodes in 1968 and 1971, the show originally aired on NBC from 1971 to 1978 as one of the rotating programs of The NBC Mystery Movie.
The Bay (TV series) Bergerac (2025 TV series) Bergerac (TV series) Black Ops (TV series) Black Work. Blue Lights (2023 TV series) Blue Murder (British TV series) Borderline (2024 TV series) Broadchurch.
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. The character's full name is Jules Amédée François Maigret.
March 18, 1978. (1978-03-18) Kojak is an American action crime drama television series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theophilus "Theo" Kojak. Taking the time slot of the popular Cannon series, it aired on CBS from 1973 to 1978.