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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]
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
Detective Danny Reagan, Blue Bloods; Detective Inspector John Rebus, by Ian Rankin; Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds; Arkady Renko, of the Moscow Militsya, by Martin Cruz Smith; Dave Robicheaux, by James Lee Burke; Detective Inspector Jack Robinson, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries; Jim Rockford, The Rockford Files; Lincoln Rhyme, by Jeffery Deaver
Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as speculative fiction and other genre fiction in the mid-nineteenth century and has remained extremely ...
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 .
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)
Pages in category "Detective films" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. P. Poochandi; T. This City ...
Irene Adler is an opera singer in the short story "A Scandal in Bohemia" by Arthur Conan Doyle begun in 1891; later appeared as a Pinkerton detective in a series of books by Carole Nelson Douglas begun in 1990, played by Charlotte Rampling in Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976 film); by Anne Baxter in The Masks of Death (1984 TV movie); by Gayle ...