![]() ![]() These films go all the way back to the silent era to the present. ![]() ![]() It lists 11 movies featuring Raymond Chandler’s hardboiled detective Philip Marlowe and five with Dashiell Hammett’s detective Sam Spade. As of late 2022, IMDb listed a whopping 52 movies featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner Dr. Many of the famous literary detectives found a second life and a new audience in film. FBI Agent Clarice Starling must find a serial killer with the help of an incarcerated cannibal in The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Auguste Dupin, the sleuth assigned to solve the case, would also appear in the Poe story “The Mystery of Marie Roget.” Both of these stories were later–like, a hundred years later–made into movies. The detective genre was invented in 1841 with Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” C. ![]()
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