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Rajani Pandit (born 1962) is an Indian private investigator and entrepreneur from Maharashtra.Credited as the first female detective in India, in 1986 she started the Rajani Investigative Bureau, which by 2010 had grown to employ a staff of 30 detectives.
Much of early detective fiction was written during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction" (1920s–1930s). 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.
Kenda worked as a homicide detective with the Colorado Springs Police Department from 1977 to 1981, and 1984–1996. [ 6 ] In the final episode of Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda , called "The End" , the personal impact of his work in homicide is detailed, as is his retirement, work as a bus driver for special-needs students, and battle with ...
The Mentalist. Patrick Jane, played by dreamy Simon Baker, is a former psychic medium who eventually becomes an independent consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
We love a good police procedural, and this one based on real-life LAPD officer William Norcross is no exception. Nathan Fillion stars as 40-something officer John Nolan, who becomes the oldest ...
One of Netflix's hidden gems is Babylon Berlin, a German detective show set in pre-World War II Berlin. The show dives into the gritty underbelly of the 1920s and 30s, while also ominously teeing ...
Fred Otash (January 7, 1922 – October 5, 1992) was a Los Angeles police officer, private investigator, author, and a WWII Marine veteran, who became known as a Hollywood fixer, while operating as its "most infamous" private detective; he is most remembered as "the inspiration for Jack Nicholson's character Jake Gittes in the film, Chinatown. [1]
Francesco Vincent "Frank" Serpico (/ ˈ s ɜːr p ɪ k oʊ / SUR-pik-oh; born April 14, 1936) is an American retired New York Police Department detective, best known for whistleblowing on police corruption. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was a plainclothes police officer working in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Manhattan to expose vice ...