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...City of Death'' were reused in Adams' later novel ''Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency'', in particular the character of Professor Chronotis, and Dirk Gent ...JS Bach]], which provides a minor plot element in ''Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency''. Adams was also good friends with The Monkees' Michael Nesmith. In

...mber, [[9-11 Commission]]. Former New York City Police Department Homicide Detective with expertise in investigation, intelligence gathering, research, strategi

...nd strikebreakers, the Pennsylvania National Guard, local police and hired detective agencies on the other.

* In the Alfred Hitchcock film''Vertigo'', detective Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) follows Madeleine Elster (Kim Novak) into

*Cairns-Smith AG. (1990) ''Seven Clues to the Origin of Life: A Scientific Detective Story''. New York: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 13-978-0-521-39828-2; 1

In '''[[Crime fiction|detective stories]]''', [[Wilkie Collins]] dominated the first part of the reign, and

...60. ABC, one hour Tuesday nights. Based upon Raymond Chandler's character, detective Philip Marlowe was an independent loner who worked to solve crimes. Detective Drama. 1960 - 1962. CBS, one hour. Checkmate, Inc. was an expensive investi

...a series of best-selling fictional murder mysteries wherein she acted as a detective, helping the police solve the crime, while she was First Lady. They feature

a detective (with a kitchen knife).

...spired by the title of [[Douglas Adams]]' novel ''[[Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]]'', Moore reasoned that to solve a crime holistically, one would ne

...diawithdetective.jpg|Mayor La Guardia (middle) shaking hands with a police detective|left|thumb|250px]]

...xt 18 years traveling from one occupation to the next--among them railroad detective and pressman’s devil--before finding himself at the decidedly middle age

* [[Detective]]

...t story written by Woodrow W. Walker, former movie stuntman turned private detective Buck Ames marries his stuntwoman girlfriend Helen Davis. They board the ''S

...cing step-by-step his discovery of natural selection—a piece of scientific detective work as revolutionary in its implications as the discovery of the structure

...he 1950s and '60s wrote a series of [[mass market paperback|pulp fiction]] detective novels featuring "Coffin" Ed Johnson and "Gravedigger" Jones, two New York

...in labor relations resulted in 10 deaths when strikers killed [[Pinkerton Detective Agency|Pinkertons]] sent by Carnegie Steel Company's manager [[Henry Clay

...of works, some under the nom de plume H. Bustos Domecq, including a parody detective series and fantasy stories.

...ng; for example, in the ''Moonlighting'' episode "Knowing Her", she played detective David Addison's seemingly friendly ex-girlfriend while secretly planning hi

...re we threatening our fertility, intelligence, and survival?: a scientific detective story |publisher=Dutton |location=New York |year=1996 |pages= |isbn=0-525-9