FAMOUS DETECTIVES - MurderMysteries.com. Famous Detectives Sherlock Holmes It's 'elementary' that to most murder mystery fans, Sherlock Holmes is the ultimate in fictional detectives. Created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887, Holmes is an intellectually brilliant but emotionally flawed sleuth. Holmes' skills at observation and deductive reasoning combine to crack seemingly unsolvable mysteries in Victorian England. More... Hercule Poirot Inspect the Hercule Poirot Reviews Index Poirot, described by Agatha Christie, is a short man with an egg-shaped head, cat-like green eyes and a demeanor so prim and fussy that even a speck of dust is taken as a personal affront.
Yet, Hercule Poirot is so amazingly adept at using his 'little grey cells' to solve crimes that Scotland Yard often calls him in on their most difficult cases.More... Charlie Chan Created by Earl Derr Biggers in 1923, the enigmatic Chinese detective Charlie Chan has appeared in best-selling books, as well as on radio, television, movies and even in comic books. GREAT BRITISH DETECTIVES. The eccentric Sherlock Holmes is without a doubt Britain's most famous detective.
Created in 1887 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, he featured in over 56 short stories and four novels, before Doyle finally packed him off to spend his retirement bee-keeping. Three decades after the creation of Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie's Monsieur Poirot strode onto the literary (crime) scene. Christie admitted that the the Holmes tradition of the "eccentric detective, stooge assistant" was a strong influence on her Belgian detective, known for his punctual time-keeping.
Despite jokes that his first name was "Inspector", the full name of Colin Dexter's Jaguar-driving, ale-loving Morse, revealed in the book Death is Now My Neighbour, was actually "Endeavour Morse. " Those who know the Thames Valley Police station in Oxford have long been amused by a sign announcing "Inspector Morse's Office" in one of its windows. Jonathan Creek, played by Alan Davies.
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