Detective

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Someone who investigates unsolved crimes and other mysterious happenings, either for a living, as a hobby, or simply by chance.

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Overview

A detective gathers information through clues, questioning, and furtive observation, with the goal of finding the truth behind a crime or some other mystery. There are two types of detective, police and private, though private investigators come in many varieties, especially in fiction. A private detective might do business through a detective agency, provide security for a company in some other industry (e.g., a hotel), or simply take cases as they stumble upon them.

Some characters who are, for all intents and purposes, detectives, don't self-identify as such - Hershel Layton (Character), for example, is a professor by trade, but spends much of his time investigating in much the same way a professional would.

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• A Case of Distrust (Game)
• Accident (Game)
• Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Prosecutor's Gambit (Game)
• Ace Ventura Pet Detective: The Case of the Serial Shaver (Game)
• Aen no Koufune (Game)
• Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The First Cases (Game)
• Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None (Game)
• Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile (Game)
• Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun (Game)
• Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express (Game)
• Agni: Village of Calamity (Game)
• Aibou DS (Game)
• Akagawa Jirou: Majotachi no Nemuri (Game)
• Alan Wake II (Game)
• Albert Wilde: Quantum P.I. (Game)
• All Will Rise (Game)
• Alone in the Dark (Game)
• Alter Ego (Game)
• Ambroise Niflette & the Gleaned Bell (Game)
• American Girl: Kit Mystery Challenge (Game)
• Anachronox (Game)
• Apple Crumble (Game)
• Art of Murder: FBI Confidential (Game)
• Art of Murder: Hunt for the Puppeteer (Game)
• Artificial Detective (Game)
• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Game)
• Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection (Game)
• Astate: La Malédiction des Templiers (Game)
• Atlantis: The Lost Tales (Game)
• Aviary Attorney (Game)
• Ballade For Maria (Game)
• Baobabs Mausoleum Ep. 1 Ovnifagos Don't Eat Flamingos (Game)
• Baobabs Mausoleum Ep. 2 1313 Barnabas Dead End Drive (Game)
• Batman & Robin (Game)
• Batman (Game)
• Batman Begins (Game)
• Batman Forever (Game)
• Batman: Arkham Asylum (Game)
• Batman: Arkham City (Game)
• Batman: Arkham Knight (Game)
• Batman: Arkham Origins (Game)
• Batman: Dark Tomorrow (Game)
• Batman: Return of the Joker (Game)
• Batman: Return to Arkham (Game)
• Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu (Game)
• Batman: The Telltale Series (Game)
• Batman: Vengeance (Game)
• Battlefield Hardline (Game)
• Bear With Me (Game)
• Blacksad: Under the Skin (Game)
• Blackwell Epiphany (Game)
• Blue Toad Murder Files (Game)
• Blues & Bullets (Game)
• Borrowed Time (Game)
• Brok: The Brawl Bar (Game)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Game)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - 3 Dimensions of Murder (Game)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Hard Evidence (Game)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Dark Motives (Game)
• CSI: Deadly Intent (Game)
• CSI: Fatal Conspiracy (Game)
• CSI: Hidden Crimes (Game)
• CSI: Miami (Game)
• Call of Cthulhu - The Video Game (Game)
• Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (Game)
• Caper in the Castro (Game)
• Carmen Sandiego Word Detective (Game)
• Carmen Sandiego: Junior Detective Edition (Game)
• Case Files: The Death of Paulette Williams (Game)
• Chaos;Child (Game)
• Chase: Cold Case Investigations - Distant Memories (Game)
• Chicken Police - Paint it Red! (Game)
• ChikuTaku (Game)
• Chip 'N Dale: Rescue Rangers (Game)
• City Hunter (Game)
• Clue (Game)
• Clue Chronicles: Fatal Illusion (Game)
• Clue: Master Detective (Game)
• Clue: Murder at Boddy Mansion (Game)
• ClueFinders: Mystery Mansion Arcade (Game)
• ClueFinders: The Incredible Toy Store Adventure (Game)
• Cobra Mission (Game)
• Condemned 2: Bloodshot (Game)
• Condemned: Criminal Origins (Game)
• Conspiracies II: Lethal Networks (Game)
• Contradiction: Spot The Liar! (Game)
• Cosa Nostra (Game)
• Crime Scene (Game)
• Criminal Case (Game)
• Cruise for a Corpse (Game)
• Crypt Worlds (Game)
• Cthulhu: Books of Ancients (Game)
• Culpa Innata (Game)
• Curse of Resthaven (Game)
• D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die (Game)
• DS Nishimura Kyōtarō Suspense 2: Shin Tantei Series - Kanazawa, Hakodate, Gokkan no Kyōkoku: Fukushū no Kage (Game)
• Daemonica (Game)
• Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (Game)
• Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (Game)
• Dark Grim Mariupolis (Game)

Concept details

Name

Detective

Aliases

Investigator,PI,Private Detective,Private Dick,Private Eye,Private Investigator

Games

• A Case of Distrust (Game)
• Accident (Game)
• Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Prosecutor's Gambit (Game)
• Ace Ventura Pet Detective: The Case of the Serial Shaver (Game)
• Aen no Koufune (Game)
• Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The First Cases (Game)
• Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None (Game)
• Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile (Game)
• Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun (Game)
• Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express (Game)
• Agni: Village of Calamity (Game)
• Aibou DS (Game)
• Akagawa Jirou: Majotachi no Nemuri (Game)
• Alan Wake II (Game)
• Albert Wilde: Quantum P.I. (Game)
• All Will Rise (Game)
• Alone in the Dark (Game)
• Alter Ego (Game)
• Ambroise Niflette & the Gleaned Bell (Game)
• American Girl: Kit Mystery Challenge (Game)
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Franchises

• Has franchises: Adult Swim (Franchise), Final Fight (Franchise), Mario (Franchise), Mario RPG (Franchise), Megami Tensei (Franchise), Persona (Franchise), Shenmue (Franchise), Batman (Franchise), DC Universe (Franchise), LEGO Batman (Franchise), Batman: Arkham (Franchise), Touch! Generations (Franchise), Paper Mario (Franchise), Shin Megami Tensei (Franchise), Ace Attorney (Franchise), Professor Layton (Franchise), Hotel Dusk (Franchise), Disney (Franchise), Police Quest (Franchise), Gabriel Knight (Franchise), Silent Hill (Franchise), LEGO (Franchise), Carmen Sandiego (Franchise), The Longest Journey (Franchise), Sherlock Holmes (Franchise), Death Note (Franchise), Call of Juarez (Franchise), Scooby Doo (Franchise), Scooby-Doo Case Files (Franchise), Call of Cthulhu (Franchise), Still Life (Franchise), Inspector Gadget (Franchise), CSI (Franchise), Barbie (Franchise), Interpol (Franchise), Omikron (Franchise), Eagle Eye Mysteries (Franchise), Dick Tracy (Franchise), Nancy Drew (Franchise), The Hardy Boys (Franchise), Tex Murphy (Franchise), Umineko no Naku Koro ni (Franchise), Dead to Rights (Franchise), Touch Detective (Franchise), Detective Conan (Franchise), Darkness Within (Franchise), Agatha Christie (Franchise), L.A. Noire (Franchise), Puzzle Agent (Franchise), MacVenture (Franchise), Danganronpa (Franchise), Jake Hunter (Franchise), ClueFinders (Franchise), Condemned (Franchise), Atlantis (Franchise), Yuji Horii Mysteries (Franchise), Egypt (Franchise), EVE (Franchise), Women's Murder Club (Franchise), Mystery Case Files (Franchise), JESUS (Franchise), American Girl (Franchise), Conspiracies (Franchise), Tony Tough (Franchise), Gentleman Detective Series (Franchise)

Characters

• Has characters: Batman (Character), Mario (Character), Multiple Man (Character), Chun-Li (Character), Indiana Jones (Character), Barbara Gordon (Character), Dick Grayson (Character), Tim Drake (Character), Bart Simpson (Character), Lisa Simpson (Character), Kato (Character), Azrael (Character), James Gordon (Character), Judge Dredd (Character), Sherlock Holmes (Character), Jean DeWolff (Character), Blaze Fielding (Character), Junpei (Character), Sigma (Character), James Bond (Character), Felix Leiter (Character), Pennington (Character), Alexander Morris (Character), Max (Character), Donald Duck (Character), Mickey Mouse (Character), Miles Edgeworth (Character), Phoenix Wright (Character), Detective Dick Gumshoe (Character), Damon Gant (Character), Tyrell Badd (Character), Sam (Character), Kyle Hyde (Character), Manny Calavera (Character), Sonny Bonds (Character), Lei Wulong (Character), Inspector Rosso (Character), Aya Brea (Character), Ray McCoy (Character), Carmen Sandiego (Character), Arsène Lupin (Character), L (Character), Light Yagami (Character), Near (Character), Douglas Cartland (Character), Apollo Justice (Character), Ema Skye (Character), Jake Marshall (Character), Tyler Miles (Character), Carla Valenti (Character), Max Payne (Character), Captain Benjamin Briggs (Character), Luke Triton (Character), Clamp Grosky (Character), Emmy Altava (Character), Hershel Layton (Character), Nick Kang (Character), Kaoru Sayama (Character), Green Hornet (Character), Scooby-Doo (Character), Scrappy-Doo (Character), Daphne Blake (Character), Fred Jones (Character), Velma Dinkley (Character), Sofia (Character), Kenzaki Kyouya (Character), Bigby Wolf (Character), Marcus Reed (Character), Chrys Liszt (Character), Roachy Caruthers (Character), Chie Satonaka (Character), Kanji Tatsumi (Character), Naoto Shirogane (Character), Rise Kujikawa (Character), Ryotaro Dojima (Character), Teddie (Character), Yukiko Amagi (Character), Detective Pikachu (Character), Rorschach (Character), Katsuya Suou (Character), Jake Fenton (Character), Mr. Underwood (Character), Bonkers D. Bobcat (Character), Cornfed Pig (Character), Gustav McPherson (Character), Shunsaku Ban (Character), Detective Norman (Character), Gil Grissom (Character), Sara Sidle (Character), Warrick Brown (Character), Dr. Raymond Langston (Character), Laura Bow (Character), Butterfly (Character), Angel Starr (Character), Arsene Lupin III (Character), Inspector Zenigata (Character), Angel Batista (Character), Dick Tracy (Character), John Tanner (Character), Lt. McKenzie (Character), Tantei Club Member (Character), Detective David Tapp (Character), Tintin (Character), Norman Jayden (Character), Carter Blake (Character), Scott Shelby (Character), Frank Hardy (Character), Joe Hardy (Character), Nancy Drew (Character), Inspector Chelmey (Character), Tex Murphy (Character), Patrick Galloway (Character), Dlanor A. Knox (Character), Erika Furudo (Character), Sissel (Character), Lynne (Character), Anaya (Character), Ark Thompson (Character), Mackenzie (Character), Conan Edogawa (Character), Francis York Morgan (Character), Stiletto Anyway (Character), Toby (Character), Jack Orlando (Character), Cole Phelps (Character), Jack Kelso (Character), Mr. K (Character), Dorian Dickens (Character), Butch Johnson (Character), Charlotte Dickens-Johnson (Character), Kid Riddle (Character), Ling-Ling Johnson (Character), Max Dickens (Character), Phoebe Dickens (Character), Looker (Character), Chip (Character), Dale (Character), Neve Gallus (Character), Azriel Odin (Character), Big Band (Character), Hercule Poirot (Character), Piposh (Character), Dr. Lautrec (Character), Ronaldo Kuriki (Character), Phillip Bester (Character), Phantom R (Character), Candace Flynn (Character), Kenji Iwata (Character), Athena Cykes (Character), Heiji Hattori (Character), Sir Basil (Character), Kamen Rider Double (Character), Kamen Rider Skull (Character), Makoto Naegi (Character), Kyouko Kirigiri (Character), Hinata Hajime (Character), Geronimo Stilton (Character), Howard E. Loreid (Character), William Ward (Character), Ray Pinker (Character), Sebastian Castellanos (Character), Juli Kidman (Character), Joseph Oda (Character), Ronan O’Connor (Character), David Young (Character), Detective Case (Character), Angel O'Day (Character), Ape (Character), Batzarro (Character), Elongated Man (Character), Detective Chimp (Character), Goro Akechi (Character), Laura James (Character), Inspector Frederick Jenks (Character), Tokisaka Reiji (Character), Aiba (Character), Goro Matayoshi (Character), Kyoko Kuremi (Character), Makiko Date (Character), Jake Hunter (Character), Ray McDougal (Character), Ace Ventura (Character), Gyeong (Character), Kanzaki H. Aria (Character), Connor (Character), Manny Pardo (Character), Hajime Kindaichi (Character), Jessica Fletcher (Character), Ricardo Tubbs (Character), James "Sonny" Crockett (Character), Neuro Nougami (Character), Jonathan Maguire (Character), Becky Marney (Character), Zhu Yuan (Character), Abrams (Character), Kaname Date (Character), Lennie Briscoe (Character), Olivia Benson (Character)

Locations

• Has locations: ACME Detective Agency (Location), VILE (Location), Little Riddle (Location)

Objects

• Has objects: Magnifying Glass (Object), Examination Table (Object)

People

• Has people: Kyle MacLachlan (Person), Amelia Watson (Person)

Related Concepts

• Has related concepts: Lego Minifigure (Concept), Forensics (Concept), Tactician (Concept), Agents (Concept), Lawyer (Concept), Federal Bureau of Investigation (Concept), Film Noir (Concept), Ledge Crossing (Concept), Gal Friday (Concept), Victorian Era (Concept), Profiler (Concept), Startling Developments Detective Agency (Concept), Psycho Villagers (Concept), Rogue Cop (Concept), Evidence (Concept), Gambler (Concept), Investigation Team (Concept)