A bout a decade ago, when his mansion in upstate New York started feeling too cramped for all his grandkids, Jules Kroll, the world’s most famous private detective, set out to build a bigger one ...

Eugène-François Vidocq (1775-1857) was a thief, puppeteer with a troupe of traveling performers, soldier, convict, cop, ...

World famous detective Sherlock Holmes brought Arthur Conan Doyle fame and fortune. So why did he choose to kill the character off, ... So "The Strand Magazine" is launched in January 1891, ...

This Thursday marks the 166th birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the most famous detective in literary history, Sherlock Holmes. Edgar Allen Poe more or less invented the modern genre ...

A FAMOUS DETECTIVE. Share full article. March 24, 1887. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from March 24, 1887, Page 5 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

Everyone knows the superstars of detective fiction. There’s Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and his 7% solution, and Agatha Christie dreamed up Hercule Poirot and the little grey ...

It was in the Strand magazine that most of the 56 Holmes stories were published, and made famous, and Ms. Worsley follows ...

Commissioner Jules Maigret, French literature’s most famous detective, is a therapist in disguise. Well, not really, but he’s a detective who would have been a therapist, given the opportunity.

AJ DiCosimo writes a humorous piece about fake quotes from famous fictional detectives, such as Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, and Hercule Poirot.

The next Sherlock Holmes game depicts the famous detective as an arrogant young man. News. ... PLAY Magazine, the Sydney Morning Herald, and more. Specific interests include indie games, obscure ...

For years I have been hearing about detective stories. Almost everybody I know seems to read them, and they have long conversations about them in which I am unable to take part. I am always being ...

A dubious piece of American pop culture history comes to light in the August 9, 2010 New Yorker magazine, as historian Jill Lepore examines the phenomenon of Charlie Chan, the fictional ...