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== Anime and Manga ==
* The ''[[Nightwalker]]'' anime actually has the epithet "Vampire Detective," and is heavily influenced by both ''[[Forever Knight]]'' and ''[[Interview with the Vampire]]''. It follows most of the criteria, with a few subversions: the lead is a male private detective, [[The Atoner|regrets the evil things he's done in the past]], was [[I Hate You, Vampire Dad|forcefully transformed]] by [[Fully-Embraced Fiend|an evil vampire]] who [[I Love You, Vampire Son|had a one-sided homosexual relationship with him]], has [[Kiss of the Vampire|a closer-than-business relationship with his secret agent partner]] and [[Last-Minute Hookup|a sexual relationship with the assistant college girl]] he [[Emergency Transformation|turned into a vampire]], had flashbacks during the later half of the series that tied into current [[Demonic Possession]] cases, and [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire|only feeds on willing donors]]. It's also a rare example of a vampire detective series [[Happily Ever After|ending on a positive note]].
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* The manga ''[[Blood Alone]]'' doesn't have the private investigator as a vampire; instead he adopted one. But still all the elements are there.
* A female variant in ''[[Hellsing]]'' comes in the form of Seras Victoria, a [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]] who is [[Reluctant Monster|reluctant]] about feeding. She even gets some detective work in a few of the episodes of the first series.
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* Henry Fitzroy of [[Tanya Huff]]'s ''[[Blood Books|Blood]]'' series (adapted to television as ''[[Blood Ties]]'') is ''not'' one of these, despite getting drawn in to dealing with Toronto's supernatural weirdnesses pretty frequently; he just wants to deal with the ghosts or the evil wizards or whatever and get back to his real job... which is writing romance novels.
** Of course eventually there is a vampire private detective in the series...But they were a PI before becoming a vampire.
*** And the spinoff ''[[Smoke and Shadows]]'' series features Henry again, now as sidekick to a gay wizard who works in television - for a low-budget
* In ''[[The Hollows]]'' series of novels by Kim Harrison, witch-detective Rachel Morgan has a vampire partner, the incredibly sexy Ivy Tamwood.
** However, Ivy isn't very old, she's female, and her angst isn't so much with her parents as with the leader of the vampires, who's more like an uncle. But there sure is a lot of angst.
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