The detective genre initially began to flourish in the 1930s with the release of the original version of The Maltese Falcon (1931), The Thin Man series (1934-1946), and Satan Was a Lady (1936). These films are typically referred to as “classical” detective films because they feature a detective who “had a cultivated wit and used scientific methods of deduction” in order to resolve the film’s conflict (Schatz 124). In addition, the detectives featured in the aforementioned films were “part of a generally organized society whose occasional problems could be solved with deductive reasoning” (Schatz 125).