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Watching the Detectives
Screen sleuths, chronologically by début.
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- Sam Spade, “The Maltese Falcon”1931 (Ricardo Cortez), 1941 (Humphrey Bogart)
- Columbo, “Columbo” (original series)1971
- Jessica Fletcher, “Murder, She Wrote”1984
- Clarice Starling, “The Silence of the Lambs”1991
- Easy Rawlins, “Devil in a Blue Dress”1995
- Jimmy McNulty, “The Wire”2002
- Benoit Blanc, “Knives Out”2019
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