Well let's go for the third installment of this compilation of faces what film and television have put our policemen and literary detectives. It won't be the last, but the ones that remain will be a little more special. Again, in this article No Pictures so that everyone can keep their own.

We have the televisions of Mike Hammer de Mickey spillane, and Spenser, Robert B Parker. The most recent ones like the adventurous detective Phryne fisher, Kerry Greenwood. The homelands of Pepe Carvalho, of the teacher Montalbán, and Arturo Andrade, Ignatius of the Valley. And the two coldest, that of the so Russian Arkady renko, from the North American Martin Cruz-Smith, and that of the grumpy Danish inspector Carl Morck, Jussi Adler-Olsen.

Mike Hammer - Stacy Keach

It is impossible to forget that saxophone of the Harlem Nocturnal by Earle Hagen, the mythical theme from the header of the television series of the 80. Nor can we forget the arrogance and irony that it impressed on him. Stacy Keach at its best.

Mickey Spillane created Hammer in the book I, the jury, and they were made first two movies, in 1952 and 1982. But it was in the CBS television series, issued from 1984 to 1987, where he got all the success. Hammer is a private investigator, he calls his gun Betsy and he is always after his secretary, Velda. His best friend is the Captain Pat Chambers, Homicide Police Department New York. One of his books, The great crime (1967), was one of my first black readings.

Spenser - Robert Urich

We continue in the 80. Perhaps many readers do not know that this detective is the product of the imagination of Robert B Parker. This crime novel writer, who was a publicist first and later worked at Boston University, created it in The Godwulf manuscript, the first of the 35 you posted about it.

Spenser is a ex-boxer and ex-cop from Boston who works as a private detective. Lives with his girlfriend susan, and to solve their cases account with his best friend, Hawk, who lives outside the law. The ABC adapted their stories into the television series Spenser, private detective. And his face lent it to him robert urich, one of the best known television actors of those years (and disappeared too soon).

Phryne Fisher - Essie Davis

Published now the second novel of this character created by the Australian author Kerry Greenwood. His success was such that he has already three seasons in a television series, where is it sophisticated and intrepid detective from the twenties the actress brings it to life essie-davis. The setting, music and recreation of their stories are impeccable and delight lovers of the vintage series.

Pepe Carvalho as Eusebio Poncela

We come to these parts to meet one of the most classic (with the permission of someone else) and admired national detectives. To the great and influential creation of the master Manuel Vázquez Montalbán he put his most famous face on him Eusebio Poncela in the 1986 TVE series. But they also lent their faces Constantine Romero y Juanjo Puigcorbe, the latter in French version.

Arturo Andrade - Juan Diego Botto

En Silence in the snow (2011), the film by Gerardo Herrero that adapts the novel The time of strange emperors, Ignatius of the Valley. Was the second novel starring the captain Arturo Andrade, a military man with a dark past from the postwar Spanish period. This story is set in the Soviet Leningrad, in the middle of the Second World Cup. I girlfriend Juan Diego Botto like the literary Andrade, and would have directly changed it for the much more forceful and expressive physique of Carmelo Gómez.

Arkady Renko - William Hurt

And we return to the Soviet Union because there it is Arkady renko, the very Russian, melancholic and special investigator that created the North American Martin Cruz-Smith. Bill first title of the 8 that make up (so far) the series, Gorki Park, was a success and was adapted to the cinema in 1983. I recommend them all. And my Arkady Renko doesn't have the face of William Hurt, but Hurt knew how to give him part of the coldness that the context of the story required.

Carl Mørck - Nikolaj Lie Kaas

We do not leave the ambient cold and end in Denmark, with the always moody and difficult Inspector Carl Mørck. Writer's creature Jussi Adler-Olsen is the protagonist of the successful series Department Q. Are already six titles published and the seventh has to appear here.

And they go three movies that adapt the first three novels quite well: The woman who scratched the walls, The boys who fell into the trap y Message in a Bottle. All starring the Danish actor Nikolaj Lie Kass, embroidering the complicated Mørck. Essential for lovers of the Nordic crime novel.