An American detective would know plenty about that, but even he was theorizing.

Clyde Wilson (1923-2008) was an American detective and private investigator.

Simon said he was particularly interested in the demythification of the American detective.

The American detective novel tends to demand a little more characterization.

On the television, the American detectives were breaking down the door of a flat in a poor tenement.

Two detectives, American and Japanese, are trading insults at a bar.

Its plot involves an American detective being sent to Britain to track down a major international criminal.

During the 1930s and much of the 1940s, that detective-hero was possibly the best known American fictional detective.

Is there a quota of American detectives for the article?

Simon, who became a consultant and producer with the series, said he was particularly interested in the demythification of the American detective.