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unusual facts about The Detective



Tony Rome

Other films in this genre include The Detective (1968) which also starred Sinatra as well as Point Blank (1967), Bullitt (1968), Madigan (1968), and Marlowe (1969).


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64th Street: A Detective Story

The story starts out in a typical Double Dragon/Final Fight style setting at 64th Street with two protagonists: Rick (Anderson), a calm and intelligent, 35-year old professional private detective and manager of the detective agency; and Allen (Tombs), a 19-year old, reformed delinquent trained by Rick, who is "short-tempered and violent when angry".

A Study in Emerald

Early on in their acquaintance, Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard arrives at their lodgings in Baker Street with a matter of extreme and delicate urgency regarding a brutal murder in a Whitechapel slum, and the detective is to be hired to solve the case.

Adolphus Williamson

Frederick Adolphus "Dolly" Williamson (1830 – 1889) was the first head of the Detective Branch of the Metropolitan Police and the first head of the Detective Branch's successor organisation, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

Anwalt Abel

20 television films were produced, based on the detective novels of Fred Breinersdorfer.

Audience

In The Mystery of Edwin Drood, a Broadway theatre musical based on Charles Dickens's last, unfinished work, the audience must vote for whom they think the murderer is, as well as the real identity of the detective and the couple who end up together.

Book of Secrets

The Secret Book, a 2006 Macedonian feature film combining the detective, thriller and conspiracy fiction genres

Campaign Cartographer

Campaign Cartographer has been used to illustrate novels such as Shades of Gray by Lisanne Norman, Le Temple Des Eaux-Mortes by Eric Ferris, and Johannes Cabal the Detective by Jonathan L. Howard.

Carol Anne Davis

She also interviewed the detective who caught Britain’s youngest serial killer, Peter Dinsdale, and found unique details about the case.

Crime 360

The detective units in each of these cities use a Leica or a Deltasphere three-dimensional scanner to photograph the crime scene, essentially "freezing" it for study during the investigation; hence, the series title "Crime 360."

Fantomcat

Duke of Fantom (voiced by Robert Powell) - A masked swashbuckling hero who joins the Detective Team after his release and is nicknamed Fantomcat.

Lindbergh the Pigeon (voiced by Jimmy Hibbert) - The garbled blubblering companion of the Detective Team, who hates heights and therefore will not fly.

Tabitha "Tabs" Wildcat (voiced by Lorelei King) - A stern female detective and leader of the Detective Team.

Félix B. Caignet

Caignet enjoyed great success in 1934 with the detective dramas of “Chan Li Po”, based on the American Charlie Chan movies, broadcast on CMKD of the Palacio de la Torre.

Frederik de Groot

In the Netherlands he appeared in the detective series Bureau Kruislaan and its spin-off Unit 13.

Hard Boiled Mahoney

Slip (Leo Gorcey) goes with him down to the detective's office to demand payment, but finds the office empty.

James Moriarty

Professor Moriarty, fictional character and the archenemy of the detective Sherlock Holmes

Jimmy Nail

After the first two series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Nail found himself typecast before creating the detective series Spender, which he co-wrote with Ian La Frenais.

John Cournos

However, he is probably best known for his unhappy affair with Dorothy L. Sayers, fictionalized by Sayers in the detective book Strong Poison (1930) and by Cournos himself in The Devil Is an English Gentleman (1932).

John D. F. Black

Black also was the executive producer of the detective movie Trouble Man (1972), which starred Robert Hooks and whose musical score was written by Marvin Gaye.

John F. Dickson

When Inspector Thomas F. Byrnes became head of the detective squad, he was sent to the Tombs Police Court where he remained for the rest of his career.

Jürgen Thorwald

Thorwalds book The Century of the Detective was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1966 in Best Fact Crime category, but he lost to Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.

Keith Dressel

Many organizations put up memorial funds for the detective's family such as, University of Toledo, St. Francis De Sales High School and the Toledo Police Department.

Kogoro Akechi

The Akechi stories are based mainly in the detective's home city of Tokyo, though some move the action to the Japanese countryside.

Madog ap Maredudd

Madog's intervention in the Battle of Lincoln in 1141 forms an important plot element in the detective novel Dead Man's Ransom, part of the Brother Cadfael chronicles by Edith Pargeter (writing as Ellis Peters).

Marc Riley

He then formed a band including ex-members of Pere Ubu and Captain Beefheart's Magic Band called The Lost Soul Crusaders (named after a fictional group in an episode of the detective series Columbo whose lead singer was played by one of Riley's heroes, Johnny Cash), but the record company funding the band went bust before any material could be recorded.

Meet Nero Wolfe

Set in New York, the story introduced the detective genius Nero Wolfe (Edward Arnold) and his assistant Archie Goodwin (Lionel Stander).

NBCI

National Bureau of Criminal Investigation, the detective branch of the Irish Garda (police)

Peter Lundin

The detective in charge of the investigation, Niels Kjøller of the Hvidovre Police Department, described the basement and garage of the house as resembling "slaughterhouses", despite Lundin's attempts to clean the crime scene.

Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss

His most famous role is Axel Richter in the detective series The Old Fox from 1997.

Predator vs. Judge Dredd

Although the detective did not appear in Predator 2 he featured in the first Predator comic book outting Concrete Jungle written by Mark Verheiden which parallels a lot of the themes in the second film.

Rachel Victoria Roberts

Roberts also appeared alongside David Jason in the first episode of the detective series, A Touch of Frost, and has made five appearances in the police procedural, The Bill.

Sam Benady

In the first one, The Abandoned Brigantine, Sherlock Holmes reveals the solution to the mystery of the Mary Celeste, while in the second, The Gibraltar Letter, the detective solves the case of the abduction of the Duke of Connaught while he was posted to Gibraltar.

Statue of Sherlock Holmes, London

Doubleday had previously produced a statue of Holmes for the town of Meiringen in Switzerland, below the Reichenbach Falls from which the detective fell to his death in the story "The Final Problem".

The Old Man in the Corner

T. J. Binyon, "Murder Will Out: The Detective in Fiction", Oxford University Press, 1989, ISBN 0-19-219223-X, p.

The Steam Man of the West

The novels set in 1868 center around young inventor Frank Rude, Jr., (a parody of dime novel hero Frank Reade, Jr.), his cousin Charlie Bull, his sister Inanna Rude, Denver Doll the Detective Queen, the orphans PS and Kurt Wagner, Bessie Little the Masked Rider, photographer Eadweard Muybridge, and the detective and vigilante the Woman in Black.

The Winter Murder Case

"This is Van Dine's last work, left in an only semi-expanded outline form at the time of his death. Philo Vance is still the detective but the pseudo-scholarly footnotes are not in evidence nor is the pearl-handled telephone. In fact, this short book is pleasant reading; add your own nostalgia if you wish.", according to Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor in A Catalogue of Crime.

Tom the Dancing Bug

Sam Roland, the Detective Who Dies is a Sam Spade-esque noirish private detective, except that he always dies.

Trial of the Detectives

Following the Committee of Inquiry, the Detective Branch was reorganised into the CID.

Westhumble

The detective story writer Cyril Hare was born in Mickleham in 1900 and lived from 1951 until his death in 1958 in Westhumble, at Berry's Croft opposite Cleveland Lodge.

Where's Dick?

The opera is satire on 1980s American life and tabloid journalism and follows the experiences of Junior ("an all-American boy") who in reaction to the crime and corruption he sees around him searches for the detective hero Dick Tracy.

Women's Land Army

In the detective novel A Presumption of Death, taking place in the early days of World War II, the plot centers on Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey trying to solve the murder of a land girl who had come to work at a village in Hertfordshire.