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The most famous detectives: Eugene Widock and Osip Shor

Cunning criminals could hardly be stopped, if not for even more cunning and tenacious detectives. This profession occupies one of the leading places in the modern world. Detective stories have long occupied a very significant niche on television. About the people of this profession are written dozens and hundreds of bestsellers. Their adventures and intricacies of subjects have long captivated the hearts of millions of people. But who are the most famous detectives? Whose names do we associate this business with? Interestingly, but in fact it turns out that the most famous detectives - only Made-up characters. Products of pen and fantasy directors. Indeed, the most famous detectives are Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Mrs. Marple, Lieutenant Colombo and some others. However, this does not mean that such brilliant minds do not exist in nature. Moreover, without many of them, the characters of books and cinematography who have grown fond of us would not have appeared!

The most famous detectives in history

Osip Shor

This man, although he was formally a detective, was famous for his completely opposite deeds. Moreover, Osip Shor, perhaps, is the most vivid example of the prototype of the famous hero! Well, who does not know the famous scoundrel Ostap Suleiman Bert, Maria Bender. And although the literary character was not a detective, but his prototype was! Osip Shore spent his childhood in Odessa. And in 1916 he moved
In Petrograd, enrolled in the local Institute of Technology. However, his studies were interrupted by the revolution. Returning in 1918-1919 to his homeland, to Odessa, the hero obtained means of livelihood by small fraud, appearing in different places as a chess player, an artist, or even a bridegroom of famous persons. Later, stories of these adventures reached the writer Yevgeny Petrov, who designed them into a famous literary novel. In the post-revolutionary years, Osip Shor worked in the criminal investigation of the city of Odessa. Possessing an ingenious savvy, by that time the well-known detective had done a lot for the tranquility of his native city.

Eugène François Widock

And it was not only Shor who visited both sides of the law. Eugene Widock, perhaps, is indeed the most famous detective among those who existed in reality. Having been in the shoes of a criminal, he became one of the most successful fighters against crime Subsequently. Eugene Widock was born in the last quarter of the 18th century in France. Already in his teens he commits his first crime. Later, he ends up in the army, where he turns out to be not the best soldier and eventually desertes. The youth of Vidoka is held in constant robberies and robbery, which he committed as a member of a criminal gang. Often a young man went to jail, but each time he managed to escape. At one point, Eugene Widock managed to make enemies of himself in the criminal world, among his former friends. In 1811, he is in the prefecture of Paris, where he offers his services and assistance in the fight against gangs. Vidok managed to convince everyone that only those who think like a criminal can effectively catch criminals. And he was right. The group he created with the name "Security" lasted more than 20 years. And our hero has managed, in the end, to reach the post of chief of the chancellery in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France.

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