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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 Chimp: John Broome and Carmine Infantino: Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog #4 (July–August 1952) Emerson Cod: Bryan Fuller: Pushing Daisies (TV) (2007) Elvis Cole: Robert Crais: The Monkey's Raincoat (1987) The Continental Op: Dashiell Hammett: The Tenth Clew [5] (1924) Alexa Crowe: Claire Tonkin: My Life Is Murder (TV) (2019 ...
Pages in category "Fictional American police detectives" The following 97 pages are in this category, out of 97 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Crime Fiction came to be recognised as a distinct literary genre, with specialist writers and a devoted readership, in the 19th century.Earlier novels and stories were typically devoid of systematic attempts at detection: There was a detective, whether amateur or professional, trying to figure out how and by whom a particular crime was committed; there were no police trying to solve a case ...
Walter Ellis Mosley (born January 12, 1952) is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins, a black private investigator living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. They are, perhaps, his most ...
Maurice Richardson's "The Last Detective Story in the World" (1946) is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche in which Nero Wolfe appears along with many other detectives and villains from crime fiction history. First printed in the May 1946 issue of the British magazine Liliput , the story was reprinted in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (February 1947).
The Best American Mystery Stories. Annual series from 1997 to 2021, with guest editors. Writer Robert B. Parker wrote "Otto Penzler knows more about crime fiction than most people know about anything, and proves it once more in this brilliant anthology." The Best American Crime Writing. Annual series since 2002, with Thomas H. Cook and guest ...
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