PORTRAITS of fictional detectives

PORTRAITS of fictional detectives

This is from an old out of copyright book on writing detective fiction, it needs a lot of work.

The appearance of the detective is always of interest and each author in turn endeavors to make his marvelous minded creature look as physically unlike other fiction detectives as possible. And especially does he aim to have him totally different in his effects from the popular conception of the conventional detective. In fact the average detective of fiction is always declared to look absolutely unlike the average detective of fiction.

Some Early Detective Portraits

Some Less Known detective Portraits

Idiosyncrasies of Fictional Detectives