Also Mike Hammer, the Mickey Spillane character.
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Hard core Noir baby! (Surely the sound, once she gets into the car, is all about her having sex with him. Sly innuendo during the production code and all. No?)
He wasn’t exactly the best detective, but he did have a pretty cool early Jaguar XK140. Before they trash it off Mulholland Dr. anyway.
The light-filled briefcase in the end is quoted directly in Repo Man (1984) and Pulp Fiction (1994).