Posted on 05/27/2021 4:24:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
In leisure moments mystery stories are captivating. Readers and viewers are eager to watch the solver of the whodunit, able to overcome red herrings, false suspects, locked rooms, misdirection, genre stereotypes, and false alibis.
Since Edgar Allen Poe's The Murders of the Rue Morgue and The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, there have been many famous fictional detectives, some of whom have achieved legendary status. To name a few of the hundreds of police detectives, and private and amateur sleuths, we have Sherlock Holmes, master of logical reasoning; Philip Marlowe , quintessential hardboiled private eye; Jessica Fletcher, mild-mannered novelist; Inspector Clouseau, bumbling, accident prone Frenchman; Perry Mason, defense attorney in seemingly indefensible cases; and Morse, in Oxford, lover of ale, classical music, and crossword puzzles.
Some of these detectives appear to be possessed of characteristics of their creators such as the tough-talking Dashiell Hammett, creator of characters Marlowe and Sam Spade. Two detectives who do not resemble their creator are Hercule Poirot and Jules Maigret, who are studies in contrast, as were their creators, the different personalities Agatha Christie and Georges Simenon.
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Dashiell Hammett, creator of characters Marlowe and Sam Spade.
HUH? Try Raymond Chandler for Marlowe.
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