One scholar wrote about the detective novels of Tony Hillerman, set among the Native American population around New Mexico, " many American readers have probably gotten more insight into traditional Navajo culture from his detective stories than from any other recent books.

French cinema also was the birthplace for many sub-genres of the crime film, most notably the modern caper film, starting with 1955's Rififi by American-born director Jules Dassin and followed by a large number of serious, noirish heist dramas as well as playful caper comedies throughout the sixties, and the " polar ," a typical French blend of film noir and detective fiction.

Out of the Past ( 1947 ) features many of the genre's hallmarks: a cynical private detective as the protagonist, a femme fatale, multiple Flashback ( literary technique ) | flashbacks with voiceover narration, chiaroscuro | dramatically shadowed photography, and a fatalism | fatalistic mood leavened with provocative banter.

In 1991, he embarked on a serious acting career, portraying police detective Scotty Appleton in Mario Van Peebles ' feature film New Jack City, gang leader Odessa ( alongside Denzel Washington and John Lithgow ) in Ricochet ( 1991 ), gang leader King James in Trespass ( 1992 ), followed by a notable lead role performance in Surviving the Game ( 1994 ), in addition to many supporting roles, such as J-Bone in Johnny Mnemonic ( 1995 ), and the marsupial mutant T-Saint in Tank Girl ( 1995 ).

Despite popular conceptions promoted by movies and television, many US police departments prefer not to maintain officers in non-patrol bureaus and divisions beyond a certain period of time, such as in the detective bureau, and instead maintain policies that limit service in such divisions to a specified period of time, after which officers must transfer out or return to patrol duties.

Specialized preventive and detective groups exist within many law enforcement organizations either for dealing with particular types of crime, such as traffic law enforcement and crash investigation, homicide, or fraud ; or for situations requiring specialized skills, such as underwater search, aviation, explosive device disposal (" bomb squad "), and computer crime.

Because of newspaper articles and Watson's stories, however, Holmes is well known as a detective, and many clients ask for his help instead of or alongside the police.

In television, service in Vietnam was part of the backstory of many characters in the 1980s and 1990s, particularly in police or detective roles.

The story of a phantom pie-thrower ( later revealed to be the detective on the case ) is repetitious and relying on the same jokes, which many Stooge fans consider to be far less humorous than their past work.

Also during the period, there were many detective films ( The Thin Man Goes Home and Charlie Chan in the Secret Service for example ) in which the mystery involved who stole the secret blue-prints, or who kidnapped the famous scientist.

As such, he is even promoted to Chief Inspector over the course of the series, and is regarded by many other characters who presumably have not met him as France ’ s greatest detective ; those characters he actually encounters, nevertheless, are quick to realise his incompetence and limitations.

In this novel, Hammett redefines many of the conventions of the " hard-boiled " detective genre.

He appeared in many West End plays in the following few years and his earliest successes on the stage were as Hercule Poirot in Alibi ( 1928 ); he was the first actor to portray the Belgian detective in this stage adaptation of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, and as William Marble in Payment Deferred, making his Lyceum Theatre ( New York ) debut in 1931.

The precursor to these was the radio series ( 1950-1952 ) Tales of the Texas Rangers, a contemporary detective drama set in Texas, featuring many of the characteristics of traditional Westerns.

However, the names of many of the supporting characters are puns, suggesting Garrett's friends, or the lead characters in other detective stories.

Frank M. Canton, Sheriff of Johnson County in the early 1880s and better known as a detective for the WSGA, was rumored to be behind many of the deaths.

* " Ariadne Oliver ", a friend of the detective Hercule Poirot in many of his detective mysteries written by Agatha Christie.

Snow's novelistic world resembles the " classical " detective story, which needs to exclude as many variables as possible from the problem ( a passing stranger cannot be the murderer-it has to be one of the houseguests ).

This large department boasts a detective unit, a traffic unit, a patrol unit, and many other divisions.

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

Yoakam has also starred in many films, most notably in critically acclaimed performances as an ill-tempered, abusive, live-in boyfriend in Sling Blade ( 1996 ), as a psychopathic killer in Panic Room ( 2002 ), as a police detective in Hollywood Homicide ( 2003 ) and as the sheriff in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada ( 2005 ).

This author, unlike many who have achieved fame and success for qualities quite other than literary ones, has studied to improve in every branch of writing in each of her detective stories.

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

it was demonstrated, many critics would later point out, in the length of his novels.

Not all recent science fiction, however, is dystopian, for the optimistic strain is still very much alive in Mission Of Gravity and Childhood's End, as we have seen, as well as in many other recent popular novels and stories like Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud ( 1957 ) ; ;

The details of the setting of `` Neutral Tones '' are not, strictly speaking, metaphorical, but they combine to create a mood which is appropriate both to a dismal winter day and to the end of love, and in this way love and weather, the emotions and the elements, symbolize each other in a way that is common to many of Hardy's best poems ( `` Weathers '', `` The Darkling Thrush '', and `` During Wind and Rain '', for example ) and to some moving passages in the novels as well ( Far From The Madding Crowd is full of scenes constructed in this way ).

In the 1950s, many of them were retrospectively patched together into novels, or " fixups " as he called them, a term which entered the vocabulary of science fiction criticism.

His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).

He becomes Poirot's lifelong friend and appears in many of the novels and stories.

Excluding " Sleeping Murder ", forty-one years passed between the first and last-written novels, and many characters grow and age.

Thomas Carlyle translated Goethe ’ s novel into English, and after its publication in 1824, many British authors wrote novels inspired by it.

From within this literary environment emerged many stories and novels about private detectives, also known as private investigators, PIs and " private eyes " (" eye " being the vocalization of " I " for " investigator ").

The novel follows the adventures of Alonso Quijano, a hidalgo who reads so many chivalric novels, that he decides to set out to revive chivalry under the name of Don Quixote.

Aside from Eugene Onegin, Hofstadter has translated many other poems ( always respecting their formal constraints ), and two other novels ( in prose ): La Chamade ( That Mad Ache ) by French writer Françoise Sagan, and La Scoperta dell ' Alba ( The Discovery of Dawn ) by Walter Veltroni, the then head of the Partito Democratico in Italy.

There was extensive censorship in England and many war novels had been banned or burned as a result.

He was the author of many novels, plays and poems about Dartmoor.

His Dartmoor cycle of 18 novels and two volumes of short stories still have many avid readers despite the fact that many titles are out of print.

Notably, from 1985 to 1988, author and television writer Hugh Miller wrote seventeen novels, detailing the lives of many of the show's original characters before 1985, when events on screen took place.

* The Anno Dracula stories and novels of Kim Newman use many of these same false sources.

While the substance of many of Orwell's novels, particularly Burmese Days, is drawn from his personal experiences, the following are works presented as narrative documentaries, rather than being fictionalised.

Another Russian realist classic, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, incorporated gothic elements in many of his works, although none of his novels are seen as purely gothic.

Architecture itself played a role in the naming of Gothic novels, with many titles referring to castles or other common Gothic buildings.

This naming was followed up with many Gothic novels often set in Gothic buildings, with the action taking place in castles, abbeys, convents and monasteries, many of them in ruins, evoking “ feelings of fear, surprise, confinement ”.