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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 ...
Jill Bernhardt is a Deputy DA and one of the four women crime solvers in 'The Women's Murder Club' books by James Patterson; played by Laura Harris on the 2007–2008 ABC series Women's Murder Club. Mirabelle Bevan is an ex-Secret Service agent turned debt collector who solves mysteries in a series set in 1950s Brighton by Scottish author Sara ...
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. The author who created the team appears in parentheses. Detective Duos: Anabel and Looker – Author Bryant and John May – (Christopher Fowler)
The following is a list of female writers in the detective and mystery genres. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Detective Creator Debut Karen Andersen: Louise Burfitt-Dons: The Missing Activist [1] (2018) Angel: Joss Whedon: Angel (TV) (1999) Harry Angel: William Hjortsberg: Falling Angel (1978) Lew Archer: Ross Macdonald: The Moving Target (1949) Bilqees "Bobby" Ahmed: Samar Shaikh Bobby Jasoos (2014) Jagga Bagchi: Anurag Basu: Jagga Jasoos (2017 ...
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 fiction in modern Russian literature with clear detective plots started with The Garin Death Ray (1926–1927) and The Black Gold (1931) by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Mess-Mend by Marietta Shaginyan, The Investigator's Notes by Lev Sheinin. [54] Boris Akunin is a famous Russian writer of historical detective fiction in modern-day ...
A professional female detective appeared in the popular stories Miss Madelyn Mack, Detective, written by Hugh Cosgro Weir in 1909. [1] But the earliest published version of a girl sought out as an amateur detective appears in the story collection The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange, by Anna Katharine Green, published in 1915.