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Jakubowski, Maxim, ed. 100 Great Detectives: Famous Mystery Writers Examine Their Favorite Fictional Investigators.; New York: Carroll & Graf, Inc., 1991. .
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Detective fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Detective, Detective - Becoming a detective, Detective - Court testimony, Detective - Detective as a designator of rank or status, Detective - Detectives and their work, Detective - Famous fictional detectives, Detective - Forensic evidence, Detective - Organization of detectives, Detective - Police detectives,
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Gumshoes: A Dictionary of Fictional Detectives (Hardcover) ... One hundred fifty fictional detectives--"sleuths, snoops, cops, or hard-boiled PIs"--are represented in this who's-who in whodunit literature compiled by English professor Brunsdale (Mayville State University, North Dakota).
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Famous fictional detectives TV and book ... Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (usually known as Andy) and Detective Sergeant (later Detective Inspector) Peter Pascoe are two fictional Yorkshire detectives in a series of novels by Reginald Hill and a BBC television series.
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A big drinker like many great detectives, Lawrence Block's Scudder is an ex-cop turned PI who is haunted by the accidental death of a child. Fuelled by a cocktail of guilt and rage, Scudder gets deeply involved in his cases and then always leaves 10% ... He is also the only fictional cop I can think of who likes Hawkwind.
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I don't remember any Iranian writer of detective stories, though Esmail Fasih's fictional character, Jalal Arian, always had a great sense of deduction. Hasan Hedayat's Persian TV series called Detective is the only real Iranian detective TV series I have seen in Iran.
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