Sometimes, bad guys … make the best good guys.
A grifter, a hacker, a thief, a hitter, and an ex ins agent. At least a few eps concerned murder or other killings.
Hey! I’m trying to eat lunch here.
That’s not solving the crime though; that’s just setting up the initial premise.
What you actually saw was your next door neighbour’s wife faking her death with the aid of her illicit lover. It was done with the aid of a stage knife that can push the blade into the handle, a mannequin, a hologram projector, a string connecting a door handle to a record player for some reason, and a set of clothes that was eaten after the crime.
But the icthyologist got suspicious when he noticed that someone must have fed the tropical fish after her death.
Sorry; All I know about Forensic Anthropologists comes from the type of TV show that depicts them carrying guns and actually arresting people.
While the above seems to be a veiled reference, I can’t believe that a proper listing has not been made for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes!
The first item listed in the OP was “Private Detectives” which I assume includes “Consulting Detectives.” We don’t actually need a separate naming for each person (IMHO), we’re talking categories.
I have forgotten the fellow’s name who wrote mysteries where the protagonist was an English antique divvy.
Antiques Cop Show
on PBS
Bishop “Blackie” Ryan, from the series by Andrew Greeley.
Yes, thanks!
Who was the rock band who solved mysteries in that one episode of South Park? I’m thinking Linkin Park, but it was so long ago. They had a “Mystery Machine”-type van and loved playing “I Spy with My Little Eye.”
I came into this thread to mention just that. Back in the day, one of my Anthro profs came into class happy as could be, because he had just earlier in the day solved a murder for the local police. He was a physical anthropologist.
There should be a whole section Supernatural Creatures:
Vampires (Forever Knight, Blood Ties, Moonlight, Angel)
Werewolves, along with a Banshee, who are in their teens (Teen Wolf)
Immortals (New Amsterdam, Forever; that is currently running on ABC)
Or brothers who hunters who are after the supernatural creatures that are killing people (Supernatural, Buffy)
It was Korn.
Sports agent (Myron Bolitar).
Noel Coward! There have been several murder mystery dramas on BBC radio by this woman, that have Noel Coward solving murders. (I do not know if they were radio originals, or if they pre-existed in some other format.)
Other BBC Radio murder mystery series feature a jobbing actor (Charles Paris), who solves murders, and an Italian-English Franciscan Friar and Catholic priest who is on sabbatical from his priestly duties and actually working as a university lecturer in semiotics, and who solves murders in Ireland (Paolo Baldi).
(Absurd as the premise is, the Baldi stories are mostly excellent, and the Charles Paris ones are very serviceable. The Noel Coward ones are a bit silly.)
Hey! I like that show! I’m taking notes here so I can expand my online viewing, as if even more quirky detectives who solve stuff the police can’t solve is an expansion. My latest discoveries are wizards, large but non-violent English solicitors, and agoraphobic chess masters. And a bit more current, guys who were placed in stasis 200-odd years ago and just now thawed.
I bet the police won’t believe you, you have to solve the case from your wheelchair.