In Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes canon, which story is Holmes’s first published appearance?
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A Study in Scarlet
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In Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes canon, which story is Holmes’s first published appearance?
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A Study in Scarlet
Which fictional detective investigates murders in the Father Brown episode “The Hammer of God”?
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Father Brown
In what year was Raymond Chandler’s first Philip Marlowe novel, The Big Sleep, published?
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1939
In the 1941 film The Maltese Falcon, what is Sam Spade’s profession?
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Private detective
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