private investigator

Hercule Poirot

Hercule Poirot is the brilliant, Belgian private detective who appears in many Agatha Christie novels. In the 2017 adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express, Poirot is brought to life by the mustached Kenneth Branagh.

Doc Sportello

In Inherent Vice, based on the Thomas Pynchon novel, Larry “Doc” Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) is a hippie private investigator. He takes assignments from questionable clientele in Los Angeles, getting himself caught up in all sorts of intrigue.

Thomas Magnum of Magnum P.I.

Tom Selleck played the role of Thomas Magnum in Magnum, P.I. He made life in Hawaii look hard as a private eye by driving around in a Ferrari, donning short shorts and smoking the occasional stogie.

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