How Hollywood's most famous detectives were named

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

How two of Hollywood's most famous detectives Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe were 'named after and inspired by black private eye'

Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe - portrayed by Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep - were inspired and named after Samuel Marlowe, a historian says.