Detectives: All the secrets of the greatest fictional detectives
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Detectives - Graham Collins
Introduction
Biographies, fan clubs, tours through their homes or the places they used to visit… They are not film or music stars, but fictional detectives who have as many fans as flesh and blood stars.
Edgar Allan Poe created the first fictional detective, Auguste Dupin, in 1841 in the United States, but he was French. He became famous for having solved the Murders in the Rue Morgue, among others. The figure of the detective then crossed the Atlantic Sea, giving way to the creation of the school of detective fiction in Britain, fueled by Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Hércules Poirot and Miss Marple, both created by Agatha Christie. These detectives were characterized by being exceptionally knowledgeable and having brilliant empiric observation and deduction skills. Elderly Miss Marple also adds her feminine intuition and knowledge of the world. In classic detective fiction, the plot revolves around who committed the crime and how. In these types of novels, logic and science are usually contrasted with superstitions and the supernatural.
When North Americans took up the detective genre in 1930 and 1940 and created hard-boiled detective fiction, they introduced a darker type of detective with marginal and complex characters. They showed us that in addition to their cases, the detectives themselves were interesting; they had a history, feelings and moral values. Often fond of drinking and linked to the underworld, these marginal and contradictory characters broke down the classical model and added new variables to the plots, such as conflicts related to social classes and corruption. The greatest detectives belonging to this genre are Sam Spade, created by Dashiell Hammett, Philip Marlowe, by Raymond Chandler and LewArcher, by Ross MacDonald.
The genre experienced a decline in the 50’s and 60’s, but it reemerged after the 60’s with popular detectives such as Spencer, created by Robert Parker. The detective genre has continued growing ever since. In the humorous branch of the genre Inspector Clouseau stands out, from The Pink Panther series, as a sort of anti-detective who succeeds by sheer coincidence, and has influenced characters such as Inspector Gadget, among others. Modern detectives usually transmit the realities of their countries and show how the genre has evolved along with the changes that have taken place in the world. Some of them are Cao, in China, Kayankaya, in Germany, Conde, in Cuba, and Jaritos, in Greece, just to name a few. Furthermore, the 21st century has brought us the first transgendered detective in history, from Turkey (Veral). In more recent years, the Swedish detective novel has boomed (led by the Millennium