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Private investigator
A private investigator or private detective (often shortened to PI or private eye) is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigations. Private investigators often work for attorneys in civil cases. Many work for insurance companies to investigate suspicious claims....
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Hercule Poirot
Hercule Poirot (pronounced /(h)ɜrˈkjuːl ˌpwɑrˈoʊ/; French pronunciation: [ɛʀkyːl pwaʀo]) is a fictional Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie. Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters,...
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Sam & Max
Sam & Max is a media franchise focusing on the eponymous fictional characters of Sam and Max, the Freelance Police. The characters, who occupy a universe that parodies American popular culture, were created by Steve Purcell in his youth, and later...
Marcus Didius Falco
Marco Didius Falco is the central character and narrator in a series of novels by Lindsey Davis. Using the concepts of modern detective stories (with Falco as the private investigator, roughly translated into the classical world as a 'private...
Mike Hammer
Michael "Mike" Hammer is a fictional character created by the American author Mickey Spillane in the 1947 book I, the Jury (made into a movie in 1953 and 1982).
Several movies and radio and television series have been based on the books in the...
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Jamie Madrox
James "Jamie" Spaniolo is an American rapper from Detroit, Michigan.
Spaniolo is most commonly known as Jamie Madrox of the rap group Twiztid. He is also a member of the two supergroups Dark Lotus and Psychopathic Rydas.
Jamie Spaniolo began rapping...
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Peter Gunn
Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series which aired on the NBC (produced by Revue Productions) and later ABC (produced by MGM Television) television networks from 1958 to 1961. The show's creator (and also writer and director on...
Human Target
The Human Target (Christopher Chance) is an American comic book character created by Len Wein and Carmine Infantino: a unique private detective and bodyguard named Christopher Chance who operates by impersonating his clients in order to eliminate...
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The Continental Op
The Continental Op is a fictional character created by Dashiell Hammett. A private investigator employed as an operative of the Continental Detective Agency's San Francisco office, he never gives his name and so is known only by his job description....
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Kate Lockley
Kate Lockley is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series Angel, portrayed by Elisabeth Röhm. Kate first appears in the episode "Lonely Hearts." She is a young, skeptical detective for the Los Angeles Police Department....
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Ken Ichijouji
Ken Ichijouji (一乗寺 賢, Ichijōji Ken) is a fictional character in the Digimon Adventure 02 anime series. Ken is the final member of the 02 DigiDestined, partnered with Wormmon and holder of the Crest of Kindness. Unlike the other 02 DigiDestined, he...
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Basil Flint, P.I.
Basil Flint, P.I. is John Troutman's second comic strip, started after he ended his freshman strip Sporkman. Running from 2 December 2001 to 17 February 2005, it detailed the adventures and cases of Basil Flint and his two companions/assistants...
John Shaft
John Shaft is a fictional character created by screenwriter/novelist Ernest Tidyman as a sort of African-American answer to Ian Fleming's James Bond. He was portrayed by Richard Roundtree in the original 1971 film and its two sequels, with Samuel L....
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Jim Rockford
Jim Rockford is a fictional character on the television series The Rockford Files. The character, played by James Garner, is a struggling private investigator operating in Los Angeles. Unlike many other fictional "private eyes", he is a former...
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Angel and the Ape
Angel and the Ape was a humour comic book created by E. Nelson Bridwell published by DC Comics. The characters first appeared in 1968 in Showcase #77 then graduated to their own title, with art by comic artist Bob Oksner, most often inked by Wally...
Slam Bradley
Samuel Emerson "Slam" Bradley is a fictional character that has appeared in various comic book series published by DC Comics. He is a private detective who exists in DC's main shared universe, known as the DC Universe. Created by Jerry Siegel and...
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Precious Ramotswe
Precious Ramotswe is the fictional character in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of novels by Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith.
Precious Ramotswe is a full-figured, rather jolly woman, and is the first female private detective in...
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Nick Knatterton
Nick Knatterton (full name: Nikolaus Kuno Freiherr von Knatter, which means something like Nikolaus Kuno Baron of Knatter) is a German comic strip character, drawn by Manfred Schmidt from 1950 to 1959. The name is alluding to Nat Pinkerton. He was...
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Veronica Mars
Veronica Mars is a fictional character in UPN/The CW the television series, Veronica Mars, which aired on the UPN and CW networks from 2004 to 2007. She is portrayed by Kristen Bell.
At the beginning of the series, Veronica is a 17-year-old junior...
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Sam McCall
Samantha "Sam" McCall is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera, General Hospital portrayed by Kelly Monaco since October 2003
The role of Sam has been portrayed by Playboy's April 1997 Playmate of the Month and the first champion on ABC's...
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Richard Moore
Richard Moore known as Kogoro Mori (毛利 小五郎, Mōri Kogorō) in Japan is one of the protagonists of the anime and manga Case Closed, known in Japan as Detective Conan (名探偵コナン Meitantei Conan). The name "Kogoro Mori" came from two mystery-related sources...
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Matthew Scudder
Matthew (Matt) Scudder is a fictional private investigator, the most famous and enduring creation of American crime writer Lawrence Block.
Scudder debuted in 1976's The Sins of the Fathers as an alcoholic ex-cop who had recently quit the NYPD and...
Kinsey Millhone
Kinsey Millhone (born May 5, 1950) is a fictional female private investigator created by Sue Grafton, and is the protagonist of Grafton's "alphabet mysteries" series of novels. In addition, Millhone appears in a number of short stories written by...
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Mongo the Magnificent
Dr. Robert "Mongo" Frederickson, a.k.a. Mongo the Magnificent, is a fictional private eye and criminologist who has dwarfism. His rather unusual nickname is actually his stage name, from his days as an acrobat in a circus (a career that is over by...
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Shunsaku Ban
Shunsaku Ban is a manga character known principly from the series Astro Boy.
With a round-face, and wearing tweed-suit, he is used for many characters in the assorted non-connected works of Osamu Tezuka. The character's most popular names in Japan...
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Dick Spanner, P.I.
Dick Spanner, P.I. was a 1986 British stop-motion animated comedy series which parodied Chandleresque detective shows. The titular character and main protagonist was Dick Spanner, voiced by Shane Rimmer, a robotic private detective who works cases...
Thomas Magnum
Thomas Sullivan Magnum IV was the main character and namesake of the popular American television series, Magnum, P.I.. Magnum was portrayed by Tom Selleck.
Thomas Sullivan Magnum IV was born between 1944 and 1947, with August 8, 1945 fitting the...
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V. I. Warshawski
Victoria Iphigenia “Vic” Warshawski is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Sara Paretsky. She is a gritty, independent private investigator from Chicago. Aside from one short story, The Pietro Andromache, all...
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Misty Knight
Misty Knight is a fictional character in Marvel Comics' Marvel Universe. She first appeared (by name) in Marvel Premiere #20 (January 1975). She normally appears with Colleen Wing.
Misty Knight first appeared in Marvel Premiere #20 (January 1975)...
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Douglas Cartland
Douglas Cartland is a major protagonist in video game Silent Hill 3. He is a middle aged private investigator who was hired by Claudia Wolf, the Silent Hill cult leader, to locate Heather and return her to Silent Hill.
As Douglas had a son, it is...
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Micah Rains
Micah Rains is a fictional character and part of the DC Comics book Wonder Woman. He was created by William Messner-Loebs and first introduced in Wonder Woman v2, #73.
Micah Rains is a low-end private detective based in Boston, Massachusetts. After...
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Sabrina Duncan
Sabrina Duncan is one of fictional private detectives in the 1976-1981 television series Charlie's Angels. She was portrayed by Kate Jackson and is featured in the first three seasons of the show. Sabrina has a slight Alabama accent (Jackson is a...
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Burton Guster
Burton "Gus" Guster is a character on the USA Network television dramedy Psych played by American actor Dulé Hill. He functions as the straight man for Shawn Spencer's antics, and provides sobering advice and steady support.
Gus has been Shawn...
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Gil Jourdan
Gil Jourdan is a Belgian detective comic strip created by Maurice Tillieux. It is considered a great combination of mystery, adventure and humour, and a masterpiece of European comics.
In 1956 the Belgian comic Héroïc Albums ceased publication....
Harry Dresden
Harry Dresden is a fictional character on the television series The Dresden Files. He is portrayed by Paul Blackthorne.
Harry Dresden is a wizard living and working in the city of Chicago. Not only does he offer private advice and investigation,...
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Isabella Toscano
Isabella Beatrice Black (née Toscano) is a fictional character on the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives. Originally introduced in a 1989 episode as part of the Steve and Kayla storyline, Isabella is soon romantically paired with Roman Brady. After it...
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Jonny Double
Jonathan Sebastian "Jonny" Double is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe. Created by Len Wein and Marv Wolfman, he first appeared in Showcase #78 (November 1968).
Double appeared in various other DC titles, including Challengers of the...
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Eddie Valiant
Edward "Eddie" Valiant is a fictional Californian private investigator and one of the main characters in Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?. He looks like a composite of Peter Falk of TV's Columbo...
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Vincent Calvino
Vincent Calvino is a fictional Bangkok-based private eye created by Christopher G. Moore in the Vincent Calvino Private Eye series. Vincent Calvino first appeared in 1992 in Spirit House, the first novel in the series. His latest appearance is in...
Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective
Dan Turner, also known as the Hollywood Detective, was a fictional private detective created by Robert Leslie Bellem. His first appearance was in the second issue of the pulp magazine Spicy Detective, dated June 1934, and he continued to appear...
Aidan Devane
Aidan Devane is a resident of the fictional town of Pine Valley from the ABC soap opera All My Children. He has been portrayed by Aiden Turner, from June 6, 2002 to present. The character has also been temporarily portrayed by actor Tom Archdeacon,...
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Elvis Cole
Elvis Cole is a fictional character in a series of Robert Crais' detective novels. Elvis, who jokingly proclaims himself to be "The World's Greatest Detective" on numerous occasions, is the classic private investigator: honest, straight-forward, and...
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Pepe Carvalho
Pepe Carvalho is the main character of a series of fiction novels written by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.
Carvalho is an atypical private detective with a rich, complex and contradicting personality, whose adventures have been used by the author to...
Damian Spinelli
Damian Millhouse "Spinelli" Spinelli, a.k.a. "The Jackal", is a fictional character on the ABC daytime drama, General Hospital, played by actor Bradford Anderson since November 13, 2006. Spinelli was also one of the characters in the first season of...
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Shell Scott
Shell Scott was the best-known creation of Richard S. Prather. A Southern California private eye, 6-foot-2 ex-marine, he was featured in three dozen novels published over a span of nearly 40 years. He remained 30 years old throughout.
José Luis Torrente
José Luis Torrente is a fictional character created by Spanish actor and director Santiago Segura and the main character in the three parts of the Torrente dark comedy-action film series (which includes Torrente: El brazo tonto de la ley (1998),...
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Charlie Brent
Charles Phillip Brent (born Charles Tyler IV) is a fictional character on the soap opera All My Children. He was last played by Christopher Lawford from 1992-1996.
Charles Phillip Tyler IV was born to Tara and Chuck Tyler in 1972. Chuck Tyler...
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Natalie Cook
Natalie Cook is a fictional private investigator portrayed by Cameron Diaz in the films Charlie's Angels and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.
This platinum blond with pale blue eyes is optimistic, starry-eyed, shy and somewhat goofy. A deceptively...
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Kommissar X
Kommissar X or Commissioner X is a German crime fiction series of books from the Pabel Moewig publishing house. "Kommissar X" is a private detective named Joe Louis Walker who was a counterpart of the German crime fiction FBI Special Agent Jerry...
Sleuth
The Sleuth is a fictional character featured in Disney comics. The character was created by Carl Fallberg (plot) and Al Hubbard (art) for the Disney Studio Program and intended solely for foreign publication. The first story in the series is "Mickey...
Michael Shayne
Michael Shayne is a fictional private detective character created during the late 1930s by writer Brett Halliday. It was the title of a series of 12 films starring Lloyd Nolan, a radio series under a variety of names, between 1944 and 1953, and...
Geneviève Dieudonné
Geneviève Dieudonné is a character appearing in a number of works by Kim Newman.
According to Newman, there are three versions of Geneviève for each series of his (Warhammer Fantasy, Anno Dracula, and The Diogenes Club). Each has a different middle...
Alex Munday
Alex Munday is a fictional private investigator portrayed by Lucy Liu in the films Charlie's Angels and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.
Alex is a sophisticated class act, with dark brown eyes and never a blue-black hair out of place. She has rich...
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Dylan Sanders
Dylan Sanders is a fictional private investigator portrayed by Drew Barrymore in the films Charlie's Angels and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. Although this is not verified, she is the only Angel to have seen Charlie's face, as she is the only one...
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Mick St. John
Mick St. John, a private investigator who was turned into a vampire on the night of his wedding by his bride, Coraline. Mick is 85 years old,[23] and unlike other vampires, he has standards and does not hunt women, children, or innocents. Although...
