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Watching the Detectives

Screen sleuths, chronologically by début.

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  1. Sam Spade, “The Maltese Falcon”1931 (Ricardo Cortez), 1941 (Humphrey Bogart)
  2. Columbo, “Columbo” (original series)1971
  3. Jessica Fletcher, “Murder, She Wrote”1984
  4. Clarice Starling, “The Silence of the Lambs”1991
  5. Easy Rawlins, “Devil in a Blue Dress”1995
  6. Jimmy McNulty, “The Wire”2002
  7. Benoit Blanc, “Knives Out”2019
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