List of fictional detectives

These detectives include amateurs, private investigators and professional policemen.

They are often popularized as individual characters rather than parts of the fictional work in which they appear.

Stories involving individual detectives are well-suited to dramatic presentation, resulting in many popular theatre, television, and film characters.

The first famous detective in fiction was Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin.

[1] Later, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes became the most famous example and remains so to this day.

Dr. John Thorndyke as drawn by H. M. Brock in 1908.
Sherlock Holmes has become an icon of a detective. The term "Sherlock" is also used to refer to a detective. [ 4 ]
Columbo is often considered to be one of the greatest original TV detectives. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ]
Inspector Frans J. Palmu , played by Joel Rinne .