Pitts looks at the celluloid careers of more than three dozen sleuths, including Arsene Lupin, Hercule Poirot, Mike Hammer, Miss Jane Marple, Perry Mason, Philip Marlowe, The Shadow, Sherlock Holmes, and The Whistler, and a number of screen gumshoes with brief movie careers and TV detectives. Each chapter highlights a different detective, covering the character's films, the performers who played him or her, the character's image in other media (stage, radio, television, recordings, etc.), plus a detailed filmography and a bibliography of the fictional works about each detective. With additions and corrections to the base volume and scores of photographs.
- ISBN10 0810823454
- ISBN13 9780810823457
- Publish Date 1 April 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 January 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Scarecrow Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 357
- Language English