In what story does the world's most famous modern detective knowingly imitate one of the world's first modern detectives?

maputo95

Was it a Chainler character? Jul 30 03, 7:42 PM

sequoianoir

Is the most famous Sherlock ? And modern? Poirot? or a contemporary? I assume we are talking ficticious in both cases? Jul 31 03, 6:25 PM

puffin

The famous detective was indeed Sherlock, but who was the first? And by modern I just mean solved by using the deductive reasoning we now associate with all detectives. Aug 03 03, 6:23 PM

sequoianoir

So we are talking about a REAL person - "the world's first modern detective" ? Aug 03 03, 7:07 PM

sequoianoir

In 1750, Henry Fielding established a small group of volunteer, nonuniformed homeowners to "take Thieves." Known as the "Bow Street Runners," these Londoners hurried to the scenes of reporting crimes and began investigations, thus becoming the first modern detectives. The success of Peel’s reform in England did not go unnoticed in the United States and Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency came about The major private detective agency of the nineteenth-century was formed by Allan Pinkerton 1819-1884 Am I warm ? Aug 03 03, 7:23 PM

puffin

It's not a real person. Sorry. Aug 04 03, 10:50 AM

puffin

sequoianoir, you're in the right time period for the first though. 1800-1850, I'd say. Aug 04 03, 10:52 AM

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