Everett F. Bleiler, commenting on the edited text, described " The God in the Bowl " as " a primitive detective story " and found it to be " not very good.

In the American `` hardboiled '' detective story of the '20s and '30s, the spirit of the mad genius from Baker Street lives on.

Now the detective must save his own skin by informing on the girl he loves, who is also the real murderer.

The private detective must rely, as the Youngest Son or Trickster Hero does in primitive myth, on his wits.

One of the beer-runners telephoned O'Banion -- on a line tapped by the detective bureau -- and reported the situation.

One of the hardest chores a detective has is hanging around on a city street, trying to make himself inconspicuous, keeping an eye on the entrance of an office building and waiting.

Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

For his part Conan Doyle acknowledged basing his detective stories on the model of Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin, and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character Sherlock Holmes on Joseph Bell, who in his use of " ratiocination " prefigured Poirot's reliance on his " little grey cells ".

In The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Poirot operates as a fairly conventional, clue-based detective, depending on logic, which is represented in his vocabulary by two common phrases: his use of " the little grey cells " and " order and method ".

As early as Murder on the Links, where he still largely depends on clues, Poirot mocks a rival " bloodhound " detective who focuses on the traditional trail of clues that had been established in detective fiction by the example of Sherlock Holmes: footprints, fingerprints and cigar ash.

From this point on he establishes himself as a psychological detective who proceeds not by a painstaking examination of the crime scene, but by enquiring either into the nature of the victim or the psychology of the murderer.

Beginning with Three Act Tragedy ( 1934 ), Christie had perfected during the inter-war years a sub-genre of Poirot novel in which the detective himself spent much of the first third of the novel on the periphery of events.

The novel is still among the most famous of all detective novels: Edmund Wilson alludes to it in the title of his well-known attack on detective fiction, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

By upholding his own personal code of behavior, the private detective has placed himself in opposition to a society whose fabric is permeated with crime and corruption.

Certain behaviors such as, interrogation of the partner, repeated telephone calls to work and surprise visits, stalking behavior, setting up recording devices in the home or work, or hiring a private detective to follow the partner, are all common in trying to determine if there is truly infidelity or if it is just perceived.

Some typical conflicts and long running plotlines included Miller's frustration with red tape and paperwork, his constant efforts to maintain peace, order, and discipline, and his numerous failed attempts to get a promotion ; Harris's preoccupation with outside interests, such as his living arrangements but mainly his novel ( Blood On The Badge ), and his inability to remain focused on his police work ; Fish's age-related health issues, marital problems, and reluctance to retire ; Wojciehowicz's impulsive behavior and love life ; Luger's nostalgia for the old days with partners Foster, Kleiner and " Brownie " Brown ; Levitt's quest to become a detective ( which was eventually successful ); the rivalry between the precinct's resident intellectuals, Harris and Dietrich and continually — but reliably — bad coffee ( usually made by Yemana ).

Masako, noticing his odd behavior, thinks that he is having an affair — so she hires a private detective to follow him.

The behavior of the detective character was meant as a humorous reference to players ' frequent cluelessness in Deadline and The Witness.

Conan Doyle meant to stop writing about his famous detective after this short story ; he felt the Sherlock Holmes stories were distracting him from more serious literary efforts and that " killing " Holmes off was the only way of getting his career back on track.

Jason's main reason for quitting the role was that he is now the oldest detective on television and he felt that it was ' natural ' to retire as Frost.

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

When the book was eventually published in 1937 traditionalists and purists of crime fiction felt rather cheated while critics and reviewers such as Milward Kennedy, E. R. Punshon, Ross McLaren and Sir Herbert Read liked the novel for its ingenuity (" a detective story with a difference ").

Weston believes that Cranston is merely a rich playboy who dabbles in detective work.

This twist is not merely a function of plot: it puts the whole concept of detective fiction on an armature and sculpts it into a dazzling new shape.

The appearance of detective John Munch ( from NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street ) on Fox's The X-Files happened merely because the episode revolved around a crime scene in Baltimore, a logical place for characters on The X-Files to have encountered Munch.

That this major issue of our times should feature in a detective novel shows that it is not merely about detection, yet Wallander's answer just repeats the very old idea of caring for one's proximate neighbours in the here and now.

While many plots revolved around a skull or the use of one in a crime or ritual, others featured skulls merely as a side diversion, including one case where a human skull was used as a paperweight on the desk of a police detective.

It cannot be said, however, that Solar Pons is merely Sherlock Holmes with the name changed, for the important reason that Sherlock Holmes also exists in Pons ' world: Pons and Parker are aware of the famous detective and hold him in high regard, but whereas Holmes ' adventures took place primarily in the 1880s and 1890s, Pons and Parker live in the 1920s and 1930s ( when Derleth began writing the Pons stories.

The effect given in the series is that of an honest, if not exactly by the book, cop who merely looks like the stereotypical corrupt detective.

Valley becomes compelled by a desire to be a better Batman than Bruce Wayne, especially when he discovers his lack of interest in detective work caused him to make false assumptions about Catwoman ( he thought she would sell a powerful nerve gas to terrorists when she merely wanted to dispose of it so it could not be used to hurt anyone ).

In the fiction, Holmes is a detective ; in reality, Holmes is merely a fictional detective.

He learns from a private detective that the heart belonged to Cristina's husband and begins to follow the widowed Cristina around town.

Their inability to pass on correct judgment was amply demonstrated, and forced them to bow for the individual intellect of the detective, who always belonged to the threatened upper class.

They had some skill in constructing puzzles, nothing more, and ironically they fulfilled much better than S. S. Van Dine his dictum that the detective story properly belonged in the category of riddles or crossword puzzles.

Finally, in The Maltese Falcon among others, the clash between detective and police is carried to its logical conclusion: Sam Spade becomes the chief murder suspect.

The last of these, a tale of multiple homicide upon a Nile steamer, was judged by the celebrated detective novelist John Dickson Carr to be among the ten greatest mystery novels of all time.

Various conventions of the detective genre were standardized during the Golden Age, and in 1929 some of them were codified by writer Ronald Knox in his ' Decalogue ' of rules for detective fiction, among them to avoid supernatural elements, all of which were meant to guarantee that, in Knox's words, a detective story " must have as its main interest the unravelling of a mystery ; a mystery whose elements are clearly presented to the reader at an early stage in the proceedings, and whose nature is such as to arouse curiosity, a curiosity which is gratified at the end.

The " puzzle " approach was carried even further into ingenious and seemingly impossible plots by John Dickson Carr — also writing as Carter Dickson — who is regarded as the master of the " locked room mystery ", and Cecil Street, who also wrote as John Rhode, whose detective, Dr. Priestley, specialised in elaborate technical devices, while in the US the whodunnit was adopted and extended by Rex Stout and Ellery Queen, among others.

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.

His detective novel, Trent's Last Case ( 1913 ), was much praised, numbering Dorothy L. Sayers among its admirers, and with its labyrinthine and mystifying plotting can be seen as the first truly modern mystery.

At the survey for the choice of the name, Miami Heat defeated Miami Vice, the famous detective show set among the palms of South Beach.

The detective branch in most large police agencies is organized into several squads or departments, each of which specializes in investigation into a particular type of crime or a particular type of undercover operation, which may include: homicide ; robbery ; burglary ; auto theft ; organized crimes ; missing persons ; juvenile crime ; fraud ; narcotics ; vice ; criminal intelligence ; aggravated assault / battery ; sexual assault ; computer crime ; domestic violence ; surveillance ; and arson, among others.

Mystery fiction can be divided into numerous categories, among them the " traditional mystery ", " legal thriller ", " medical thriller ", " cozy mystery ", " police procedural ", and " hardboiled " ( for instance, Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon's main detective, Sam Spade ).

John Munch, a fictional detective played by actor Richard Belzer, which first appeared on Homicide: Life on the Street, made, among numerous other TV show crossovers, a small cameo appearance in the episode " Took " from the fifth and final season of The Wire.

He starred in a number of film roles during and after Magnum ; among the most notable were as an acrophobic police detective in Runaway ; as a stand-in father in Three Men and a Baby ; and as an American 19th century sharpshooter in the Australian western Quigley Down Under – a role and film that he considers one of his best.

However, Walker did not end his espionage, and began looking more aggressively among his children and family members for assistance ( Walker was a private detective at this time ).

He is also known for the youth's book series " Pelle og Proffen " which circles around two detective teenagers, getting involved in all kinds of mysteries or crimes involving drugs, pollution and neo-Nazism among other things.

A detective from the Sheriff's Juvenile Aid Bureau, among others, was summoned to interview Brawley, but she remained unresponsive.

In 1965 he began a series of four books featuring a private detective called Rex Carver, and these were among his most successful in sales terms.

His first novel, Avenging Angel, set at the University of Cambridge, involved a murder among the Cambridge Apostles ; Sir Patrick Scott is the detective in the novel.

She has also starred in the BBC dramas Dangerfield ( 1995 ) and Sunburn ( 1999 ); hospital dramas Casualty ( 2000 ) Holby City ( 2003 ) and Hotel Babylon ( 2007 ), and the ITV detective series The Last Detective ( 2004 ) among others, along with the film Sweet Revenge ( 1998 ).

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.

Kerstin Ekman wrote a string of successful detective novels ( among others De tre små mästarna and Dödsklockan ) but later went on to psychological and social themes.