This is a partial list of fictionalprivate investigators — also known as private eyes or PIs — who have appeared in various works of literature, film, television, and games.
^Mitzi Brunsdale, Gumshoes: A Dictionary of Fictional Detectives, Introduction, p.3. Also, LeRoy Lad PanekBefore Sherlock Holmes: How Magazines and Newspapers Invented the Detective. p.97