Baadshah pretends to be blind and, after serenading Seema in a hotel lobby and subsequently getting slapped, draws her to his " apartment ", which his assistants have created using the detective agency's convertibility.

Baadshah then announces his prioritization of " wife duty ", refusing the case and disappearing with Seema on a retractable bed into the wall of the detective agency.

The Exploits of Elaine tells the story of a young woman named Elaine who, with the help of a detective, tries to find the man, known only as " The Clutching Hand ", who murdered her father.

An action film with elements of film noir, Shaft tells the story of a black private detective, John Shaft, who travels through Harlem and to the Italian mob neighborhoods in order to find the missing daughter of a black mobster.

Corkle tells the detective ( Donald MacBride ), who promptly has Mrs. Farnsworth and the secretary arrested.

Bulldog Drummond ( 1929 ) is a detective film which tells the story of Captain Hugh " Bulldog " Drummond, a British officer bored with civilian life, who investigates an extortion case for a beautiful girl.

He tells a woman that he is an importer whose hobby is detective work but only after showing her his identification which indicates he is a Confidential Agent for the International Association of Importers.

The series takes place in Los Angeles, as indicated by the episode " Bev Takes a Holiday ", when Beverly's detective tells her, " here is the address in LA ", when referring to Duckman's address.

Detective Story ( 1951 ) is a film noir which tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad.

Emily tells the detective about this development, acknowledging that Steven might have a motive in her attack.

Klute is a 1971 film which tells the story of a prostitute who assists a detective in solving a missing person's case.

In Dead Ringer, as a police detective in the squad room, Malden tells another detective: " Sekulovich, gimme my hat.

Police detective Ray Duquette ( Bacon ) tells both Kelly and Suzie that Lombardo transferred the money to an off-shore account.

: It is an ongoing manga series that tells the story of a genius high school detective who one day is turned into a young boy by mysterious men.

It tells the romantic and detective stories of a Korean war veteran, Adam Troy, ( played by Gardner McKay, who buys a 82 feet schooner, called “ Tiki ” and is in search for new cargo or / and rich passengers ( female are preferred!

It is set almost exclusively in California ( as opposed to Chan's native Hawaii ), and tells the story of the former head of Scotland Yard, a detective who is pursuing the long-cold trail of a murderer.

His flippant error about the direction of the Gulf Stream is made to Detective Rolvaag, and reveals a gap in his credentials as a scientist ; in subsequent conversations with the detective, Chaz jokes about running over snakes on the highway, tells Rolvaag to throw his soda can in the trash, and can ’ t even identify the fish in his own aquarium — “ Do I look like frigging Jacques Cousteau ?”

Don tells Hannah he'll wait all night for her to forgive him, but just before Hannah opens the door, Don is kicked out of her building by the house detective.

Eventually, one of Edward's business partners catches a glimpse of Connie and Paul fawning over each other in a cafe and tells Edward, who hires a detective ( Chianese ) to follow Connie.

Later, Len Fenerman, the detective assigned to the case, tells the Salmons that the police have exhausted all leads and are dropping the investigation.

Brawne Lamia tells her noir-ish tale, which is presumably a parody take on The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler's rather well-known Philip Marlowe detective novel of the same name.

It is also mentioned in Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, when detective Sam Spade tells the gunman Wilmer that his telling him to " shove off " " would go over big back on Seventh Avenue.

On coming to know that Feluda is a famous detective the head of this family invites him to his place and tells him about theft of an idol of Ganesha, the elephant God.

Detectives and medics surrounded the area and after brief questioning, the detective tells Paul and Karla that Tammy is dead.

The novel tells the story of a detective working for an unnamed secret agency, with a variety of identities within various law enforcement agencies ( two examples being Europol and the Police Corruption Investigation Department ).

The novelist Raymond Chandler criticised her in his essay, " The Simple Art of Murder ", and the American literary critic Edmund Wilson was dismissive of Christie and the detective fiction genre generally in his New Yorker essay, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

Unlike the models mentioned above, Christie's Poirot was clearly the result of her early development of the detective in her first book, written in 1916 but not published until 1920.

Each author's detective, also female, was brainy and physical and could hold her own.

The characters that he played onscreen during this period ranged from a serial killer in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943, opposite Teresa Wright ) to an eager police detective in Gaslight ( 1944, with Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, and Angela Lansbury in her film debut ).

In effect, rather than killing off her detective, as Conan Doyle unsuccessfully tried with his, Sayers pensioned Wimsey off to a happy, satisfying old age.

She rounded out 1967 with the raunchy but low-charting " Tony Rome " (# 83 ) — the title track from the detective film Tony Rome starring her father — while her first solo single in 1968 was the more wistful " 100 Years " (# 69 ).

In the early series she was married to Chris, but eventually he left her for the private detective she had hired when she suspected him of having an affair, and they divorced.

Luis discovers Julia has run off with nearly all of his fortune, and then teams up with a detective, Walter Downs ( Thomas Jane ), hired by Emily to find her real sister Julia.

Rumors of poisoning were fueled, in part, by a book called The Strange Death of President Harding, in which the author ( convicted criminal, former Ohio Gang member, and detective Gaston Means, hired by Mrs. Harding to investigate Warren Harding and his mistress ) suggested that Mrs. Harding had poisoned her husband.

The recordings, by screenplay writer Laura McKinney, were from a 1985 research session wherein the detective assisted her with a screenplay about LAPD policewomen.

New semi-regular characters introduced by Collins and Fletcher included: Dr. Will Carver, a plastic surgeon with underworld ties who often worked on known felons ; Wendy Wichel, a smarmy newspaper reporter / editorialist with a strong anti-Tracy bias in her articles ; and Lee Ebony, an African-American female detective.

His claims were corroborated by Gus Winkeler ’ s widow Georgette, in both an official FBI statement and her memoirs, which were published in a four-part series in a true detective magazine during the winter of 1935 – 36.

Allan Pinkerton hired Kate Warne in 1856 as a private detective, making her the first female private detective in America.

Though she was present at a hundred or more felonies during her two years as Barrow's companion, she was not the machine gun-wielding cartoon killer portrayed in the newspapers, newsreels, and pulp detective magazines of the day.

The film makes particular fun of the relationship between each detective and his or her sidekick.

One night, the detective falls asleep in Laura's apartment, under her portrait, and is awakened by the sound of someone entering the apartment.

Shirley McKie was a police detective in 1997 when she was accused of leaving her thumb print inside a house in Kilmarnock, Scotland where Marion Ross had been murdered.

A " Mrs Falco " is told by a neighbour to curb her son's inquisitiveness ; while not actually named as the detective, Simon Scarrow has confirmed on his website that this was indeed meant to be a tribute to the Falco series.

The official Paradiso website issued a press release the same month stating Melissa Auf der Maur would partake in the show, but when asked by a fan on her official Facebook fan page, Auf der Maur claimed that " mysterious press release is news to me [...] putting my detective hat on now [...] more on this soon.

This time, DCI Rachel Selway ( Nicola Redmond ) became the main detective, although her superior officer, Superintendent Peter Ross ( Mick Ford ), an ex-boyfriend of Sam's, had a stronger relationship with the pathology lab ; he and Sam resumed their romance, but it ended with the last episode of the series.

In detective fiction, the audience surrogate is usually a minor character who asks a central character how he or she accomplished certain deeds, for the purpose of inciting that character to explain ( for the curious audience ) his or her methods.