It was this that marked him out from every other fictional detective.

"You conferred with a fictional human detective on a hoiodeck?"

Sherlock Holmes is one of the world's most famous fictional detectives.

I knew he was a famous French fictional detective, but that was all.

But why don't they have their own fictional detectives?

"Your name was attached to a fictional detective who could, back in my world."

Doyle wrote four novels and 56 stories starring the fictional detective.

Certainly it's not just fictional detectives who make people feel a loss when they die.

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

Let it be said this is not a full return to duty of the various fictional detectives.