If you are contemplating committing a crime, then our detective category
is certainly not the place to do it, as here reside the cream of sleuths.
Arguably the biggest fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes,
makes a brief appearance with Charlton's two issue run, maybe due to licensing issues.
Charlie Chan appears both in newspaper strip and comic book format.
The comic strip, drawn by Alfred Andriola, was abruptly dropped after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
After the war he made a comeback. Two examples we have are, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's Prize Comics' Charlie Chan
and a later Charlton Comics title.
We have other big names. Simon Templar, known to us all as The Saint.
The Robin Hood of modern crime is a bad guy turned good. Ellery Queen, a mystery writer who helps his police inspector father solve murders.
The prolific Sexton Blake, plus a lot more!
We have 133 titles and 5,290 issues in our 'Detective Category' for you to enjoy.
Detective Comics, Books and Radio Shows
| Ellery Queen Minute Mysteries |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Nobody can claim that the original Ellery Queen stories were high literature and these one-minute shows certainly do nothing to change this view. Although they are pulp radio, these shows produced by Creative Marketing and Communications, Cincinnati, Ohio, ... |
| El Encapuchado |
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| Available: | 27 Books |
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| Publishing History |
| Issues: | 1 |
| From: | 1946 |
| Seq: | 27 - 27 |
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| Non-English: | Spanish Language Books |
| Categories: | Superhero | Crime | Adventure | Detective |
| Description: | Landscape weekly published by Exclusivas Gerpla, Barcelona. Printed by Imp Moderna, Paris. Featuring the adventures of the hooded crimefighter, El Encapuchado. Art by Adriano. 1946 |
| The FBI in Peace and War |
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| Available: | 86 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| From: | Nov 1944 |
| To: | Sep 1958 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | The FBI in Peace and War was a radio crime drama inspired by Frederick Lewis Collins' book of the same name.
The idea for the show came from Louis Pelletier who wrote many of the scripts. Among the show's other writers were Jack Finke, Ed Adamson and Collins. ... |
| Front Page Detective |
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| Section: | Crime and Detective |
| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Published monthly by Dell Publishing Co. based in Washington.
Front Page Detective was a forerunner to the comic books Dell would subsequently become more famous for.
A long running title, it featured articles and photographs on real-life crimes plus the odd fiction ... |
| The Hotspur |
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| Available: | 335 Books |
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| Publishing History |
| From: | Sep 1933 |
| To: | Oct 1959 |
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| Section: | British Story Papers |
| Categories: | Adventure | Crime | Sports | School | Science Fiction | Detective |
| Description: | One of the Big Five boys' story papers from D.C. Thomson. Featuring illustrated stories of adventure, sports, schooldays, crime, s.f. plus jokes.
They bear no relation to the American pulps or, in fact, the British pocket libraries. They are in a class ... |
| The Informer |
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| Available: | 5 Books |
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| Publishing History |
| Issues: | 5 |
| From: | Apr 1954 |
| To: | Dec 1954 |
| Seq: | 1 - 5 |
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| Publisher: | Sterling |
| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | The Informer was based on a T.V. series. It ran 5 issues before changing name to After Dark. |
| Inspector Thorne |
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| Available: | 11 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| Shows: | 11 |
| From: | Jul 1951 |
| To: | Sep 1951 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Inspector Thorne was produced by the husband and wife radio team of Frank and Anne Hummert. They produced crime dramas like Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, Mr. Chameleon, and Hearthstone of The Death Squad. However more than crime dramas, they were known ... |
| Jeff Regan, Investigator |
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| Available: | 53 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| From: | Jul 1948 |
| To: | Aug 1950 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Jeff Regan, Investigator is a radio detective drama that ran on CBS from July 10, 1948 to December 18, 1948, and again from October 5, 1949 to August 27, 1950. The series is notable for being one of the earliest nationwide programs to feature Jack Webb.
Webb, ... |
| Jet Fury |
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| Available: | 5 Books |
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| Publishing History |
| Issues: | 15 |
| From: | 1950 |
| To: | 1952 |
| Seq: | 1 - 15 |
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| Section: | Australian & New Zealand Comics |
| Categories: | Adventure | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | Aviation | Detective |
| Description: | Jet Fury and his mystery plane, The Comet, fights crime. Art by Larry Horak.
JET STARR is by Yaroslav Horak, who, after a move to England a decade later, became best known for his work on the newspaper comic strip JAMES BOND.
STARR evolved from the American ... |
| Ken Winston |
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| Section: | Newspaper Comic Strips |
| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Ken Winston was a shortlived strip created by Jerry Siegel, with pencilling by Ogden Whitney (and Mike Roy). Syndicated by General Features it featured a James Bond look-a-like. running for a year or so in the mid fifties.
"As most of Siegel's work ... |
| Kerry Drake Detective Cases |
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| Available: | 30 Books |
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| Publishing History |
| Issues: | 28 |
| From: | 1948 |
| To: | 1952 |
| Seq: | 6 - 33 |
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| Publisher: | Harvey Comics |
| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | (1948 series)
1948 - 1952
Issues: 29 (#6-33)
Tracking: Numbering continues from KERRY DRAKE, Magazine Enterprises)
Artists on this title include Alfred Andriola & Bob Powell |
| Let George Do It |
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| Available: | 200 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| From: | Oct 1946 |
| To: | Sep 1954 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Let George Do It was an American radio drama series produced from 1946 to 1954 by Owen and Pauline Vinson. Bob Bailey starred as private investigator George Valentine; Olan Soule voiced the role in 1954. Don Clark directed the scripts by David Victor and Jackson ... |
| Lex Brand |
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| Non-English: | Dutch Language Books |
| Categories: | Detective | Crime | Adventure |
| Description: | Lex Brand is a Private Detective from The Netherlands. The comic is an example of a Beeldverhaal, a popular format , roughly 13cm. x 10cm., which reflects the paper shortage in the low countries in the years following WW2. Creator was Ben Abas. |
| The Lineup |
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| Available: | 79 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| From: | 1950 |
| To: | 1953 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | The Lineup is an American police drama which aired on CBS radio from 1950 to 1953 and on CBS television from 1954 to 1960.
Syndicated reruns of the series were broadcast under the title San Francisco Beat.
The radio version depicted the investigations of Lieutenant ... |
| Matthew Slade, Private Investigator |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Not much is known about the origins of Matthew Slade, Private Investigator. However, an original Playbill on Digital Deli proclaims:
"Pacifica Players Present: The Starlight Mystery Theater featuring the adventures of William Wintersol as Matthew Slade: ... |
| Michael Shayne |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Michael Shayne is a fictional private detective character created during the late 1930s by writer Brett Halliday. The character appeared in a series of 7 films starring Lloyd Nolan for Twentieth Century Fox, 4 films from the low-budget Producers Releasing Corporation ... |
| Mr Keen Tracer of Lost Persons |
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| Available: | 60 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| From: | Oct 1937 |
| To: | Apr 1955 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons was one of radio's longest running shows, airing October 12, 1937 to April 19, 1955, continuing well into the television era. It was produced by Frank and Anne Hummert, who based it upon Robert W. Chambers' 1906 novel ... |
| Mr. Moto |
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| Available: | 14 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| Shows: | 23 |
| From: | May 1951 |
| To: | Oct 1951 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Mr. Moto is a fictional Japanese secret agent created by the American author John P. Marquand. He appeared in six novels by Marquand published between 1935 and 1957. Marquand initially created the character for the Saturday Evening Post, which was seeking stories ... |
| The Nelson Lee Library |
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| Section: | British Story Papers |
| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | School | Detective |
| Description: | The Nelson Lee Library was published by The Amalgamated Press based at Fleetway House in Farringdon Street, London.
It ran for a total of 948 issues in four runs, between 12th June 1915 and 12th August 1933.
First Run or Old Series, ran from 12th June 1915 ... |
| The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe |
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| Available: | 25 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| Shows: | 26 |
| From: | Oct 1950 |
| To: | Apr 1951 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe is a 1950-51 American radio drama series starring Sydney Greenstreet as Rex Stout's fictional armchair detective Nero Wolfe. Based on Stout's principal characters but not his stories, the series aired October 20, 1950 ... |
| Nick Carter Stories |
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| Section: | Nick Carter |
| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Published weekly by Street & Smith Publications based in New York.
A magazine for boys featuring the adventures of Nick Carter, a detective who solves criminal cases using ingenuity and wits rather than violence and brute force. It ceased publication in 1915. ... |
| Nick Carter, Master Detective |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Nick Carter, Master Detective was a Mutual radio crime drama based on tales of the famed detective from Street & Smith's dime novels and pulp magazines. A veteran radio dramatist, Ferrin Fraser, wrote many of the scripts.
With Lon Clark in the title ... |
| Night Beat |
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| Available: | 72 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| Shows: | 112 |
| From: | Feb 1950 |
| To: | Sep 1952 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Night Beat, sometimes spelled Nightbeat, is an NBC radio drama series that aired February 6, 1950 - September 25, 1952, sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer and Wheaties.
Frank Lovejoy starred as Randy Stone, a reporter who covered the night beat for the Chicago ... |
| Old Broadbrim |
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| Section: | Dime Novels |
| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Published weekly by Street & Smith Publications based in New York.
It ran for 51 issues from October 4th 1902 - September 19th 1903
Josiah Broadbrim is a Quaker Detective. His Quaker characteristics include pacifism, wearing grey clothing and a broad-brimmed ... |
| Old Cap. Collier Library |
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| Section: | Dime Novels |
| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Published initially weekly and later as a semi monthly by Munro's Publishing House based in New York.
First issue published in 1883 - Last issue published in 1899
Features detective stories with a changing roster of main characters who solve the crimes.
The ... |
| Pat Novak, for Hire |
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| Available: | 24 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| From: | 1946 |
| To: | Jun 1949 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Pat Novak, for Hire is a radio detective drama series which aired from 1946 to 1947 as a West Coast regional (produced at KGO in San Francisco) program and in 1949 as a nationwide program for ABC. The regional version originally starred Jack Webb in the title ... |
| Perry Mason |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | The radio show Perry Mason, based on the novels of Erle Stanley Gardner, was broadcast on CBS Radio from 1943-1955. The series was adapted into Edge of Night which ran on television for an additional 30 years.
Gardner's literary success with the Perry ... |
| Philo Vance |
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| Available: | 92 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| Shows: | 104 |
| From: | Jul 1948 |
| To: | Jul 1950 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Philo Vance is a fictional amateur detective originally featured in 12 crime novels by S. S. Van Dine in the 1920s and 1930s. During that time, Vance was immensely popular in books, films and radio. He was portrayed as a stylish, even foppish dandy, a New York ... |
| Police Reporter |
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| Available: | 26 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| From: | 1933 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Based on true crime stories, "The Police Reporter" was a fifteen minute dramatic series syndicated by Radio Release Limited.
The earliest listing found for it was in the December 10, 1933 issue of the "New York Times" where it showed up on WEAF's ... |
| Richard Diamond, Private Detective |
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| Available: | 102 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| Shows: | 77 |
| From: | Apr 1949 |
| To: | Sep 1953 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama, created by Blake Edwards, which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960. Shortly before his death in 2004, actor/comedian Alan King wrote a pair of short stories ... |
