David Suchet has starred as the eponymous detective in Agatha Christie's Poirot in the ITV series since 1989.

Banacek ( pronounced ' BAN-a-check ') is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard which aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974.

The series covered genres which included comedy, detective caper and action thriller.

" Other notable writers who have explored regional and ethnic communities in their detective novels are Harry Kemelman, whose Rabbi Small series were set the Conservative Jewish community of Massachusetts ; Walter Mosley, whose Easy Rawlins books are set in the African American community of 1950s Los Angeles ; and Sara Paretsky, whose V. I. Warshawski books have explored the various subcultures of Chicago.

David Janssen ( March 27, 1931 – February 13, 1980 ) was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Dr. Richard Kimble in the television series The Fugitive ( 1963 – 1967 ), the starring role in the 1950s hit detective series Richard Diamond, Private Detective ( 1957 – 60 ), and as Harry Orwell on Harry O.

Encyclopedia Brown is a series of books featuring the adventures of boy detective Leroy Brown, nicknamed " Encyclopedia " for his intelligence and range of knowledge.

" of the ABC detective series 77 Sunset Strip.

* Lucky Grills, best known for portraying the unconventional detective " Bluey " Hills in the television series Bluey ( TV series ) in 1976.

* The No. 1 Ladies ' Detective Agency, fiction novel series about a ladies ' detective agency in Botswana.

Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers, in which he solves mysteries ; usually, but not always, murders.

* The Moor ( novel ), the fourth book in Mary Russell detective series by Laurie R. King.

* Monk ( TV series ), a television show about an obsessive-compulsive detective

About this time, she guest-starred on John Cassavetes's NBC detective series Johnny Staccato.

* Napoleone Di Carlo, a detective created by Italian comic book writer Carlo Ambrosini for the series of the same name published by Sergio Bonelli Editore

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.

* Psych, an American detective comedy-drama television series

Although Falk appeared in numerous other television roles in the 1960s and 1970s, he is best known as the star of the TV series Columbo, " everyone's favorite rumpled television detective ", writes historian David Fantle.

* Rosemary & Thyme is the name of a British TV detective series, starring Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris.

Spenser ( his first name is never revealed ) is a fictional character in a series of detective novels initially by the American mystery writer Robert B. Parker and later by Ace Atkins.

Stephen and his supporters appear in Ellis Peters ' historical detective series Brother Cadfael, set between 1137 and 1145.

Warners then produced a series of popular private detective shows beginning with 77 Sunset Strip ( 1958 – 64 ) followed by Hawaiian Eye ( 1959 – 1963 ), Bourbon Street Beat ( 1960 ) and Surfside Six ( 1960 – 1962 ).

In 2005, a new X-Factor series was launched, following the mutant detective agency X-Factor Investigations.

Byron Bolton ’ s statements were also backed up by William Drury, a maverick Chicago detective who had stayed on the massacre case long after everyone else had given up.

Fisher Stevens made several guest appearances on the show after leaving, and several of the characters stayed ( such as a hard-boiled detective named Crumb, and Gary's bartender Patrick ).

* It is said that British crime novelist Agatha Christie stayed at The Winter Palace Hotel while writing her famous Poirot detective story Death on the Nile.

Mr Havering stayed at his club in London the previous evening and the following morning receives a telegram from his wife telling him his Uncle, Harrington Pace, was murdered the previous evening and to come at once with a detective.

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.

The detective, commenting on Barco's behavior, felt that he merely belonged among the myriad citizens of our community who are mentally unhinged -- that he was a more or less harmless `` nut ''!!

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?

* September 15-Columbo ( 1971-1978 ) debuts as part of a rotation of detective shows on the NBC Mystery Movie.

She appeared alongside husband Cassavetes on an episode (" Fly Baby, Fly ") of the 1959 – 60 NBC detective series Johnny Staccato.

In addition to appearing on numerous comedy, variety, and dramatic series, Adams had a role on the NBC sitcom The Bill Dana Show ( 1963 – 1965 ), as a bumbling hotel detective named Byron Glick — a character Adams created that was the precursor to the role he would play as " Maxwell Smart " on Get Smart.

In 1950 and 1951, Greenstreet played Nero Wolfe on the NBC radio programme The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe, based loosely on the rotund detective genius created by Rex Stout.

Stephanie Zimbalist ( born October 8, 1956 ) is an American actress best known for her role as Laura Holt in the NBC detective series Remington Steele.

Originally, NBC asked for pilot that imagined the series six months into its run, with the characters already working together in the detective agency.

* " One for My Baby ( and One More for the Road )" – lyrics by Johnny Mercer ; theme song of NBC detective series Meet McGraw starring Frank Lovejoy

He also appeared as George Romack on the 1961 NBC western detective series Whispering Smith, with World War II hero Audie Murphy in the leading role.

In 1961, Hale appeared in Audie Murphy's short-lived NBC western detective series, Whispering Smith, as the witness to a murder.

In two episodes of Gunsmoke, Carroll O ' Connor was a guest-star ; years later Curtis guest-starred as a retired police detective on O ' Connor's NBC program In the Heat of the Night.

He is best known for his roles as divorce attorney Arnold Becker on the NBC drama series L. A. Law, and as retired police detective Henry Spencer on the USA Network comedy-drama series Psych.

Riptide is a TV detective series that ran on NBC from 1984 to 1986, starring Perry King, Joe Penny, and Thom Bray.

He also appeared as a police officer on John Cassavetes's NBC detective series Johnny Staccato.

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe was a radio detective drama that aired from June 17, 1947, through September 15, 1951, first heard on NBC in the summer of 1947 starring Van Heflin.

He is best known for his roles as personal presidential aide ( body man ) Charlie Young on the NBC drama television series The West Wing, and as pharmaceutical salesman-private detective Burton " Gus " Guster on the USA Network television comedy-drama Psych.

Ellery Queen is an American television detective mystery series that ran for one season from 1975 to 1976 on NBC.

In 1985, Loggia was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of crusty private detective Sam Ransom in the thriller Jagged Edge, and had the starring role in another NBC series, Mancuso, FBI, for which he was nominated for an Emmy in 1989.

He also appeared as a private detective in the NBC radio show Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, which ran from 1951 to 1955.

After nearly twenty years in film, in 1958, Stevens gained national prominence for his starring role as private detective Peter Gunn, a television series which aired on NBC ( and later ABC.

*" One for My Baby " is the theme song of the 1957-1958 NBC detective series, Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy.

He appeared in the NBC western Bonanza as LaDuke, a New Orleans detective.

In 1961, NBC aired twenty episodes of the television series Whispering Smith, starring Audie Murphy, a film star and World War II hero in the title role, and Guy Mitchell as detective George Romack.