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Bob's Pages of Travel, Linux, Cybersecurity, and MoreLes Flics — Detectives in French Fiction and LifeThe French people are avid readers of American detective fiction. But the concept of a private investigator originated in France. Then Poe wrote of the French investigator Auguste Dupin, and detective literature was born.
Call Northside 777 (1948) is a newspaper noir starring James Stewart as a reporter trying to clear the name of a man convicted of killing a cop (played by Richard Conte). Watch here 
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