List of fictional private investigators

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This is a partial list of fictional private investigators — also known as private eyes or PIs — who have appeared in various works of literature, film, and television.

Detective Creator Debut
Angel Joss Whedon Angel (TV) (1999)
Lew Archer Ross Macdonald The Moving Target (1949)
Paul Artisan Gary Troup Bad Twin (2006)
Byomkesh Bakshi Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
Kate Brannigan Val McDermid Dead Beat[1] (1992)
Joe Caneili Hayford Peirce P. I. Joe Caneili, Discretion Assuree[2] (2000)
Carlotta Carlyle Linda Barnes A Trouble of Fools[3] (1987)
Rex Carver Victor Canning Doubled in Diamonds[4] (1966)
Emerson Cod Bryan Fuller Pushing Daisies (TV) (2007)
Elvis Cole Robert Crais The Monkey's Raincoat (1987)
The Continental Op Dashiell Hammett The Tenth Clew[5] (1924)
Joshua Croft Walter Sattherthwait Wall of Glass (1993)[6]
Harry Dresden Jim Butcher Storm Front (2000)
The Dresden Files (TV) (2007)
Nancy Drew Carolyn Keene The Secret of the Old Clock (1930)
Sir Arnold J. Erens Narcissa Rajabi My Destiny Tracks...
Feluda, or Prodosh Chandra Mitra Satyajit Ray Feludar Goendagiri
Dan Fortune Michael Collins Act of Fear[7] (1967)
Josephine Fuller Lynne Murray Larger Than Death[8] (1997)
Dirk Gently Douglas Adams Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
Lindsay Gordon Val McDermid Report for Murder[9] (1987)
Bernhard Guenther Philip Kerr March Violets (1989)
Mike Hammer Mickey Spillane I, the Jury[10] (1947)
Cliff Hardy Peter Corris The Dying Trade[11] (1980)
Frank and Joe Hardy Franklin Dixon The Tower Treasure (1930)
Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet (1887)
Arthur Lemming Monty Python Monty Python's Flying Circus - "Owl Stretching Time" (1969)
Thomas Magnum Donald P. Bellisario and Glen A. Larson Magnum, P.I. (TV) (1980)
Philip Marlowe Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep (1939)
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Hemlock Marreau Robert Farrow Marreau and the Chocolate Policeman[12] (1991)
Travis McGee John D. MacDonald The Deep Blue Good-by[13] (1964)
Kinsey Millhone Sue Grafton A is for Alibi[14] (1982)
Tess Monaghan Laura Lippman Baltimore Blues"[15] (1997)
Zen Moses[16] Elizabeth M. Cosin Zen and the Art of Murder[17] (1999)
Nameless Detective Bill Pronzini The Snatch[18] (1971)
Harry Orwell Howard Rodman Harry O (TV) (1974)
Hercule Poirot Agatha Christie The Mysterious Affair at Styles[19] (1920)
Laura Principal Michelle Spring Every Breath You Take[20] (1994)
Ellery Queen Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee The Roman Hat Mystery (1929)
Precious Ramotswe Alexander McCall Smith The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency[21] (1998)
Jeff Randall Dennis Spooner Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969)
Sunny Randall Robert B. Parker Family Honor[22] (1999)
Jim Rockford Richard T. Heffron The Rockford Files (TV) (1974)
Kiriti Roy Nihar Ranjan Gupta
Matthew Scudder Lawrence Block The Sins of the Fathers (1976)
John Shaft Ernest Tidyman Shaft[23] (1971)
Sam Spade Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon[24] (1930)
The Maltese Falcon (1931)
Shawn Spencer Steve Franks & Andy Berman Psych (TV) (2006)
Spenser Robert B. Parker The Godwulf Manuscript[25] (1973)
Larry "Doc" Sportello Thomas Pynchon Inherent Vice (2009)
Amos Walker Loren D. Estleman Motor City Blue[26] (1980)
V. I. Warshawski Sara Paretsky Indemnity Only[27] (1982)
Nero Wolfe Rex Stout Fer-de-Lance (1934)

References

  1. ↑ Dead Beat
  2. ↑ P. I. Joe Caneili, Discretion Assuree
  3. ↑ [1]
  4. ↑ Doubled in Diamonds
  5. ↑ The Tenth Clew
  6. ↑ [2]
  7. ↑ Act of Fear
  8. ↑ [3]
  9. ↑ Report for Murder
  10. ↑ I, the Jury
  11. ↑ The Dying Trade
  12. ↑ Marreau and the Chocolate Policeman
  13. ↑ The Deep Blue Good-by
  14. ↑ A is for Alibi
  15. ↑ [4]
  16. ↑ Zen Moses
  17. ↑ Zen and the Art of Murder
  18. ↑ The Snatch
  19. ↑ The Mysterious Affair at Styles
  20. ↑ Every Breath You Take
  21. ↑ The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
  22. ↑ Family Honor
  23. ↑ Shaft
  24. ↑ The Maltese Falcon
  25. ↑ The Godwulf Manuscript
  26. ↑ Motor City Blue
  27. ↑ Indemnity Only
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