Fictional detectives are some of the most beloved characters in print and on-screen. There are nosy neighbors like Nancy Drew and Miss Marple with no real credentials whatsoever and police detectives β Hello, Harry Bosch!
Ta, Inspector Lynley! Relentless journalists, dogged medical examiners, resourceful bounty hunters We see you, Stefanie Plum! This show is all about the gumshoes who work outside the pesky laws of search warrants and chain of evidence. Who maybe toil in an office with a frosted glass door and a dame with moxie tapping away at a typewriter β or perhaps the dame with moxie is the detective. This installment celebrates independent investigators who distract and delight in their search for the truth.
Then we recommend five books we love that put us in the thick of dangerous inquiries, including the escapades of a thoroughly modern detective agency, an urban mystery with a bookish PI, a British caper with an unforgettable hero, a how-to for wannabe detectives, and a noir-tinged fantasy novel about a reluctant sleuth.
The Expressman and the Detective by Allan Pinkerton. Girl in Disguise by Greer Macallister. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
Trains: Better Than Planes and Cars. Fight Me. Statement 1: The man credited with starting the modern detective agency was a cardinal who worked with the Pope in the s.
