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{{quote|''"...and I've laid eyes on at least three of the major Canadian syndicated vampire detective shows."''|[[The Middleman|Wendy Watson]] referring to ''[[
{{quote|''"A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds--most commonly, apparently, going into the crime solving business."''|Vivian Vande Velde}}
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* ''[[Blood Plus|Blood+ ]]'' (Japanese Anime), though subverted slightly with female vampires.
* The manga ''[[Blood Alone]]'' doesn't have the private investigator as a vampire; instead he adopted one. But still all the elements are there.
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== Film ==
* ''[[
** Note that it misses points 1, but yeah, the rest of the items fit (particularly if you substitute "teacher" for "sire").
** The immortals' need to kill other immortals and take their Quickening essentially makes them vampires who only feed on each other.
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* From the page quote: in an interview, Vivian Vande Velde cites this as one of her reasons not to write a sequel to her popular vampire novel, ''Companions of the Night''.
{{quote| The aforementioned quote begins with: ''"In a one-time book, an author can make the vampire deceitful and mysterious in an intriguing way. But if a vampire is a recurring character ... you dilute the vampire by presenting him as reformed."''}}
* Henry Fitzroy of [[Tanya Huff]]'s ''[[Blood Books|Blood]]'' series (adapted to television as ''[[
** 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 [[Vampire Detective Series]]!
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* The titular character from ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' replaces vampire with wizard and sire with teacher, but otherwise sticks to the classical trope, complete with angst over love interest and desire to act human. The emphasis is lampshaded. Thomas might be a case of a secondary character being the Vampire Detective, given ''Backup'' and ''White Knight'', but he doesn't do the private eye stuff for cash. It's just a distraction from his real job, which he isn't really doing for money either.
* Bit of a stretch, but F. Paul Wilson's ''[[Repairman Jack]]'' is probably as close to fitting this trope as an ordinary human is likely to get. He's an investigator of sorts, in that he's hired to find out what's hassling his clients and stop it (1). He's been living under the radar of authorities for so long, re-establishing himself in a legal identity so that he can marry his girlfriend isn't an easy prospect (2 & 4). His relationship with his father stagnated for years, because he couldn't admit that he works as a hired vigilante, not an appliance repairman (3). And while he doesn't have centuries of memories to flash back to, his confrontations with the Otherness invariably contain [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to previous books' encounters (5). Oh, and he runs into weirder shit than ''anyone'' on this list except John Taylor and Harry Dresden.
* John Taylor of the ''[[Nightside]]'' series probably qualifies, if having {{spoiler|Lilith}} for a Mom can substitute for having a vampiric sire. #2 and #5 are covered too, if flash''forwards'' to a future where you've caused [[The End of the World
* Despite being a literal vampire detective, Jack Fleming from ''[[The Vampire Files]]'' is an aversion of this trope: he doesn't express any desire to become human, the only angst about his sire is that she was murdered, his love interest is requited with no major problems and he rarely discusses the past. He is a [[Vegetarian Vampire]], however.
* One of the founding examples: ''BLOOD HUNT'' (1987) and ''BLOODLINKS'' (1988), by Lee Killough. The protagonist is a homicide cop who's turned into a vampire and, after adjusting to his condition, hunts down his maker to bring her to justice and uses his powers to fight crime.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[
* ''[[Angel]]'', although the detective business eventually morphed into a specialized pest extermination outfit and the main unrequited love interest was offscreen, since ''Angel'' was a [[Spin-Off]] of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.
** And though skilled in many areas, the fact that Angel isn't a particularly good detective does get lampshaded, to the point that he ends up having to hire a private detective in one episode, despite ostensibly being one himself.
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