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Hammett was the subject of a 1982 prime time PBS biography, The Case of Dashiell Hammett, that won a Peabody Award and a special Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America. [58] Frederic Forrest portrayed Hammett semifictionally as the protagonist in the 1982 film Hammett, based on the novel of the same name by Joe Gores.
Red Harvest is a novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett.The story is narrated by the Continental Op, a frequent character in Hammett's fiction, much of which is drawn from his own experiences as an operative of the Pinkerton Detective Agency (fictionalized as the Continental Detective Agency). [2]
Cloo (stylized as cloo), formerly known as Sleuth, was an American pay television channel owned and operated by NBCUniversal which aired programming originally dedicated to the crime and mystery genres, though it often fell out of this format in its later years with a more generic selection of series and films, and was used as an example of channel drift and superfluous channel bundling ...
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Jonathan Creek – creative consultant to a magician, in a British TV series by the same name, written by David Renwick. Nancy Drew – High school sleuth, created by Edward Stratemeyer. C. Auguste Dupin – upper class character created by Edgar Allan Poe.
Grantchester is a British ITV detective drama set in the 1950s in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester.Its first series was broadcast in 2014. The series originally featured Anglican vicar Sidney Chambers (James Norton); subsequent series have featured vicar William Davenport (Tom Brittney) and vicar Alphy Kotteram ().
Roger Sheringham, amateur sleuth: John Carson [26] Survives 2.8: Born Victim: Hillary Waugh: Fred Fellows, police officer: Lee Montague [27] Missing 2.9: The Unquiet Sleep: William Haggard: Rachel Borrowdaile and Colonel Charles Russell, government agents: Sarah Lawson and Roland Culver [28] Survives 2.10: The High Adventure: Jeffery Farnol ...
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.