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* [[Neil Gaiman]] wrote some short stories featuring [[Lawrence Talbot]], the Wolfman, as a hardboiled private investigator. "Only the End of the World Again" is one.
* The [[Marcus Didius Falco]] series starts out as the hardboiled detective [[Recycled in Space|Recycled In]] [[Ancient Rome]] (though he mellows as the series goes on). Living centuries before Noir was invented makes him amusingly [[Genre Blind]].
* Harry Dresden from ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' is part this, part [[Sherlock Holmes]] (showing surprising deductive skills on occasion, to nigh [[Sherlock Scan]] levels), part [[The Lord of the Rings|Gandalf]].
** With emphasis on the world weariness by around book 3. The snark continues unabated.
* [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] by Vincent Rubio in ''[[Anonymous Rex]]''. He's a detective—and a velociraptor! He claims he's not ''really'' hard-boiled, but he acts like he is because that's what the customers expect. He even uses the "[[Humphrey Bogart|Bogart]]" persona to pick up female dinos.
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