Mystery film
Movie sleuths
Mystery films have portrayed a number of notable fiction sleuths. Most of these characters first appeared in serialized novels.

Mystery film

Section Title: Movie sleuths
Table Section Text: Mystery films have portrayed a number of notable fiction sleuths. Most of these characters first appeared in serialized novels.

Sleuth(s)	Author/Creator	First film

Lew Archer	Ross Macdonald	Harper (1966)

Boston Blackie	Jack Boyle	Boston Blackie's Little Pal (1918)

Torchy Blaine	Louis Frederick Nebel	Smart Blonde (1937)

Charlie Chan	Earl Derr Biggers	The House Without a Key (1926)

Nick and Nora Charles	Dashiell Hammett	The Thin Man (1934)

Alex Cross	James Patterson	Kiss the Girls (1997)

Hugh Drummond	Herman Cyril McNeile	Bulldog Drummond (1922)

Mike Hammer	Mickey Spillane	I, the Jury (1953)

Nancy Drew	Carolyn Keene	Nancy Drew... Detective (1938)

Sherlock Holmes	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Sherlock Holmes Baffled (1900)

Michael Lanyard	Louis Joseph Vance	The Lone Wolf (1917)

Philip Marlowe	Raymond Chandler	Murder My Sweet (1944)

Miss Marple	Agatha Christie	Murder, She Said (1961)

Mr. Moto	John Phillips Marquand	Think Fast, Mr. Moto (1937)

Hercule Poirot	Agatha Christie	Alibi (1931)

Ellery Queen	Frederick Dannay and Manfred B. Lee	The Spanish Cape Mystery (1935)

Easy Rawlins	Walter Mosley	Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)

Michael Shayne	Brett Halliday	Michael Shayne, Private Detective (1940)

Sam Spade	Dashiell Hammett	The Maltese Falcon (1931)

Simon Templar	Leslie Charteris	The Saint in New York (1938)

Dick Tracy	Chester Gould	Dick Tracy (1937)

Philo Vance	S. S. Van Dine	The Canary Murder Case (1929)

Bruce Wayne	Bob Kane	Batman (1943)

Hildegarde Withers	Stuart Palmer	The Penguin Pool Murder (1932)

Nero Wolfe	Rex Stout	Meet Nero Wolfe (1936)

James Lee Wong	Hugh Wiley	Mr. Wong, Detective (1938)

Sentence(s)

In 1996, Paul Newman portrayed Lew Archer in Harper.

final_sentence: In 1996, Paul Newman portrayed Lew Archer in Harper.