By Jill Lepore Charlie Chan, based on a real detective with the Honolulu Police, became best known through Warner Oland's portrayal.
Knickerbocker The Thin Man (1934) Based on a 1932 detective novel, Nick and Nora charmed critics and cinema-goers and earned themselves four Oscar nominations.
(This drama, like so many others, also showcases cleavage. Low-cut blouses are de rigueur in any office setting — even for Tina Fey, who plays a mousy, spinsterish writer on "30 Rock".) "Women's Murder Club" is based on a popular detective series by James Patterson, but not surprisingly, the television adaptation is more concerned with feelings than forensics.
"Based on a video a detective reviewed, it does appear to be self-defense," Wyatt said.
Detective Isnora's lawyer, Philip E. Karasyk, pursued the same defense that led to the acquittal in 2008: that Detective Isnora believed that Mr. Bell and his friends were planning a drive-by shooting, based on a threat that the detective had heard outside the strip club.
In November, she will reprise her role of Alma Coin in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2. Her other roles include Freeheld, a drama based on a true story about a detective and her same-sex partner (with Ellen Page), and the romantic comedy Maggie's Plan (with Greta Gerwig).
Roy Grace is based on a real- life homicide detective.
For a start the story was ghost-written by a Mail journalist, loosely based on a phone interview with the detective.
A Detective-Inspector Connelly had sent the detectives after Capone based on a "tip" he had received from Atlantic City.
Although True Detective is not based on a book, its characters, ambience, setting, and submission of women are taken straight from the Pizzolatto fiction playbook.
