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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]
After identifying the three clues, the player must then collect the murder weapon, gather everyone in the room of the murder, and accuse the murderer. The game is made challenging by the fact that the player has to keep track of everyone's stories and also can only question people once or twice before the murderer becomes suspicious.
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.
Cluedo, known as Clue in North America, is a murder mystery-themed multimedia franchise started in 1949 with the manufacture of the Cluedo board game. The franchise has since expanded to film, television game shows, book series, computer games, board game spinoffs, a comic, a play, a musical, jigsaws, card games, and other media.
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 ...