Since the days of Sherlock Holmes, detective fiction has dominated Hollywood, but the 1970s featured one masterpiece after ...

For almost as long as there have been stories, there have been detectives—hard-boiled, goofy, enigmatic, or otherwise—tracking down clues and solving mysteries. A mainstay of novels since the mid–19th ...

Before forensic labs, digital tracking, and streaming mega-franchises like CSI or True Detective, television’s sleuths solved crimes with sharp instincts, trench coats, and charm. The 1970s and ’80s ...