The entirety of detectivist culture and certain story telling traditions in early historical sources have parallels.
@jenks Gawain being a proto-gumshoe of the wasteland?
The Mabinogian and The Cattle Raid of Cooley exist almost as distilled surrealism. Their story tellers never allow you to figure out the plot because arcs and real lives were underpinned by geasa, taboos or prohibitions that are positioned as impossible to avoid. So, you know the fates are fucked, that one disaster will beget another. The craft in the Mabinogian and Táin is the play in their revealing, their allusion to dreams as divination portholes (Sopranos), transformations (Mr Benn), where the past has as much agency over the present as any detectorist has digging
The detective is how, why, who, when and where