Nick and Nora Charles the bantering, romantically involved detective duo has become a well-used trope in literature, stage, screen, and television ever since. The characters first appear in Dashiell Hammett's best-selling last novel "The Thin Man" (1934). Nick is an alcoholic former private detective who retired when he married Nora, a wealthy Nob Hill heiress. Hammett reportedly modeled Nora on his longtime partner Lillian Hellman, and the characters' boozy, flippant dialogue on their relationship. (The novel also mentions that Nick was once a Pinkerton detective, as was Hammett.) The novel is considered one of the seminal texts of the hard-boiled subgenre of mystery novels,
Gogol (Detective) fictional detective character is still very popular for children. In some cases Private investigator of Naihati, Mr. Ashok Thakur help and save Gogol from the criminals. Bose writes lot of short stories and novel based on Gogol's adventures. Most of the Gogol series were published in Bengali child magazine like Anandamela, Shuktara etc. Gogol (Detective) Gogol (Detective) is a fictional teenage detective character created by Bengali writer Samaresh Basu especially for children. Few Gogol's stories were adapted into films. As per the writer Samaresh Basu, Gogol's father Samiresh Chatterjee was fan of Russian writer Nikolai Gogol hence he named his