In The Case of the Caretaker's Cat ( 1935 ), his principal antagonist, District Attorney Hamilton Burger, says: " You're a better detective than you are a lawyer.

( In one passage, Hercule Poirot actually says: " Don't you know that every detective has a brother who is smarter but less practical than himself?

* 2 June 1998 ' I'm not corrupt ' says Lawrence detective

In The Usual Suspects, detective Dave Kujan says to Roger " Verbal " Kint: "... so don't sell me the hooker with a heart of gold.

Julian Symons in his history of detective fiction, Bloody Murder, says: " The decline in the last six Vance books is so steep that the critic who called the ninth of them one more stitch in his literary shroud was not overstating the case.

[...] At the end a detective says: “ How am I going to make a report on all this ?” I felt the same way ”.

In Gorky Park ( film ), detective Arkady Renko refers to the Stinger as a " whore's drink " and later in the film, orders a Stinger and says, " I am a whore.

In the play Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer, mystery writer Andrew Wyke says, " Do you agree that the detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds?

Webb = a police detective ; friend of Buddy ; Nora doesn ’ t know him and says she won ’ t hire him to find Buddy ; Webb doesn ’ t want her money because he just wants to find Buddy who he says won ’ t last by himself

He eventually manages to convince a police detective to let him telephone Lila, whereupon he simply says " I love you " and she says " I know ".

Explaining that he enjoys reading detective stories, Peter says that he has the autographs of Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, John Dickson Carr and H. C. Bailey.

Contrary to what the description says, Ayumi never opened her own detective agency ; at the most, her backstory tells that she opened a school detective club with Yoko, and she becomes an assistant of Utsugi's agency.

Jane becomes convinced that the moped driver, who is called Paul, and who says he is a plain-clothes detective, is in fact Cathy's attacker.

) Miss Marple may thus be considered a female version of that staple of British detective fiction, the gentleman detective.

In this version, reporter Lamont Cranston is an amateur criminologist and detective who uses the name of " The Shadow " as a radio gimmick.

During the first four seasons of the show, he works as a private detective in a fictionalized version of Los Angeles, California, where he and a variety of associates work to " help the helpless " and to restore the faith and save the souls of those who have lost their way.

Coburn returned to television in 1978 to star in a three-part mini-series version of a Dashiell Hammett detective novel, The Dain Curse, tailoring his character to bear a physical resemblance to the author.

The first was very much like a hardboiled detective series and starred Michael Rye ( credited as Rye Billsbury ) as Dillon ; the second starred Straight Arrow actor Howard Culver in a more Western, lighter version of the same script.

A performer for seven decades, he had starring roles as Jed Clampett in the long-running CBS television series The Beverly Hillbillies and as the title character in the 1970s detective series Barnaby Jones, and played Barnaby Jones in the 1993 movie version of The Beverly Hillbillies.

Orson Welles receives funding from a mysterious source to film the ultimate version of Dracula, and hires a private detective to find out why.

* A fragment of Scene Two, Act Four of The Duchess of Malfi is shown in the 1987 BBC TV film version of Agatha Christie's detective novel Sleeping Murder

It is this version that has often been the plot device for mysteries and detective stories.

In this version, Tommy and Tuppence were played by Anthony Andrews and Greta Scacchi respectively, but, unlike in the book, with Miss Marple as the detective character instead of Tommy and Tuppence.

In the comedy version, however, the detective usually gave up on the case after being beaten up incessantly.

In Sherlock Holmes ( 2009 ) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows ( 2011 ), the cerebral detective ( played by Robert Downey, Jr .) is transformed into an athletic ( and romantic ) action hero in a steampunk fantasy version of Victorian England.

Here, Anna Karina plays a female version of Humphrey Bogart's hard boiled private detective character.

* In the movie version, human detective Matthew Sikes is played by James Caan.

In the original pre-Crisis version of his history, Gordon is a police detective who initially resents the mysterious vigilante's interference in police business.

* Russian political detective series ( 2006 ) after A. Konstantinov's novel " The Journalist " ( 1996 ) with its fictionalized version of the events

One of the characters, Detective Richard Moore ( Kogoro Mouri in the Japanese version ) is a persistent and courageous yet highly flawed and lecherous private detective — almost a parody of Kogoro Akechi.

The name of young Conan's elementary school detective club is the " Junior Detective League " (" Detective Boys " in the Japanese version ).

Among Contreras ' later film roles some of the best-known are as writer Rodolfo Walsh's version of Hercule Poirot in Santiago Carlos Oves ' Asesinato a Distancia ( Murder at a Distance, 1998 ), and as the merciless detective in Eduardo Mignogna's fact-based La fuga ( The Escape, 2001 ).

" In fact, in the three stories which star Dupin, Poe created three types of detective fiction which established a model for all future stories: the physical type (" The Murders in the Rue Morgue "), the mental (" The Mystery of Marie Rogêt "), and a balanced version of both (" The Purloined Letter ").

Bernstein had wanted to do a comedic version of Sherlock Holmes, and when watching the Stupid Pet Tricks segment on Late Night with David Letterman, got the idea for a pet detective.

Knowing that television scripts paid more, Thomas wrote the television version of the teen detective project as a spec script before it became a novel.

* A fragment of Scene 2, Act 4 of the play, with Struan Rodger as Ferdinand and Donald Burton as Bosola, is shown in the 1987 BBC TV film version of Agatha Christie's detective novel Sleeping Murder.

He is famous for playing mobsters, including Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy and Tony Montana in Scarface, though he has also appeared several times on the other side of the law — as a police officer, a detective and a lawyer.

From 1959 – 1960, Milland starred in the CBS detective series Markham, but the program failed to capture an audience even though it followed the hit western Gunsmoke, starring James Arness.

They soon began asking newsdealers for copies of " that Shadow detective magazine ," even though it did not exist.

Chan is a detective for the Honolulu police, though many stories feature Chan traveling the world as he investigates mysteries and solves crimes.

A. Milne said he had " a passion " for detective stories, having " all sorts of curious preferences " about them: though in real life the best detectives and criminals are professionals, Milne demanded that the detective be an unscientific amateur, accompanied by a likeable Watson, rubbing shoulders with an amateur villain against whom dossiers and fingerprints are of no avail.

The two men are very different: Milo is from a working-class background, the son of an Italian immigrant, and has become wealthy through ownership of a fashionable London hairdressing salon ; Andrew, by contrast, is from an upper-class background, and has become wealthy as a successful writer of popular, though now old-fashioned, crime fiction novels, which feature an aristocratic amateur detective, St. John Lord Merridew, and is obsessed with playing games.

The main character of this book, Judge Dee, was based on the real statesman and detective Di Renjie, who lived in the 7th century, during the Tang Dynasty ( AD 600 – 900 ), though in the novel itself elements of Ming Dynasty China ( AD 1300 – 1600 ) were mixed in.

The whodunit element is also less important in the Judge Dee stories than it is in the traditional Western detective story, though still more so than in traditional Chinese detective stories.

Agatha Christie has recently developed two further tricks: one is, as of the juggler who keeps on dropping things, to leave a clue hanging out for several chapters, apparently unremarked by her little detective though seized on by us, and then to tuck it back again as unimportant.

In Malet's case, Tardi adapted his detective hero Nestor Burma into a series of critically acclaimed graphic novels, though he also wrote and drew original stories of his own.

* A parallel can be observed in the TV series Monk in the connection between fictional obsessive-compulsive detective Adrian Monk and his even more intelligent, though even more neurotic and agoraphobic, brother Ambrose.

A police detective named Rudy Junkins becomes suspicious of Arnie, and his suspicions are not allayed even though Arnie is able to produce an airtight alibi for each death.

The truth was that even though Tommy King had made the threats, when Jimmy met with the detective, Tommy had already been dead for two weeks.

The Laura Bow games were distinctive in that they required some actual logical detective work on the part of the player ; for the most part, though, the puzzles were of the typical variety of inventory and environment interaction ( and frequent, often unexpected, player character death ) found in most Sierra adventures.

In "$ 106, 000 Blood Money ", for instance, the Op is confronted with two dilemmas: shall he expose a corrupt fellow detective, thereby hurting the reputation of his agency ; and shall he also allow an informant to collect the $ 106, 000 reward in a big case even though he is morally certain — but cannot prove — that the informant has murdered one of his agency's clients?

While his ship is docked in Honolulu, the detective is shot and wounded by his quarry ; though he survives, he is unable to continue with the cruise, and Chan takes his place instead.

In his later years, Ryūsuke succeeds in becoming a detective though his personality didn't change much since high school.

A less benign view of Metro-land was offered in the mid noughties by the detective series, Murder in Suburbia ( ITV 2004-6 ), which, though set in the fictional town of Middleford, was also filmed in Northwood and other parts of North West London.

Uncle Lucas, a friendly pensioner who is everyone's friend, but has a seemingly endless supply of compromising stories about people's childhoods ( though he believes them innocent enough ), which leads to ( among other things ), a politician getting run out of town ; a high-ranking policeman being arrested for kidnap ; a respected judge being exposed as a former teenage prostitute ; an undercover detective being executed by a drugs baron ; and an illustrious psychologist being driven to insanity.

To collect his blackmail payments, he would devise intricate mechanical devices that would speed along railroad tracks, have false bottoms and he continued to elude detection, though he barely eluded capture at the last minute several times, including once when a pursuing detective slipped on wet leaves and fell.

' Little ' proves to be no less predictable than its brethren, though the private detective angle adds some mirth.

* William Russ was occasionally featured during the opening credits of Season 1's first half, even though his character ( an MCU detective ) was murdered in the pilot.