J.B. Spins

It makes sense that priests make good detectives. After all, people are constantly confessing to them. However, Canon Daniel Clement is Angl...

DI Mick Palmer is the detective who would have to catch Raffles, John “The Cat” Robie, and the Phantom from the Pink Panther . He specialize...

In the early 2000’s, Chloe Carmichael was like the Mariah Carey of the UK, especially around Christmastime. Then she largely walked away fro...

If DCI Ellis shows up at your police station, you probably work in a zoo—and maybe you should call your solicitor. After taking personal tim...

Australia seems so fun-loving to Americans, but it was home to the murderers that inspired the Wolf Creek franchise as well as the serial ki...

They do not have many White Christmases in the South of France, but the British expats still take their figgy pudding seriously. In this cas...

In 1973, the local Port Talbot cops not so respectfully declined offers of help from the Metropolitan Police (Scotland Yard), out of Welsh n...

Most British TV detectives are usually DI’s or DCI’s (Morse, Lewis , Lynley, Frost, Banks ), but P.D. James’ signature eventually rose to th...

Scandinavians are still largely seen as polite and friendly people in America, even though the region has become a leading exporter of seria...

Miss Phryne Fisher is a semi-professional detective, very much in the tradition of the Thin Man, except she has always claimed to be a...

Among Nobel laureates for literature, Boris Pasternak has been the one with all the asterisks. At first, there was an asterisk saying “aw...

He was a British subject, assassinated on British soil, by a foreign power, employing the most radioactive substance known to man. Wars hav...