

Robbie Coltrane gives a memorable star turn as the uncompromising expert criminal psychologist, Dr. Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald, who has a penchant for drinking, smoking, gambling, and four letter words...

Helen Mirren stars as the hard-bitten, chain-smoking Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison in this award-winning cop drama series...

Clive Owen heads up the cast as Stephen Crane, a City slicker turned dodgy dealer who weaves his financial wizardry around the ailing fortunes of a car company...

Geraldine McEwan takes on the lead role of super-sleuth Miss Jane Marple in this charming period drama series set during 1930s-1950s...

David Suchet stars as everyone’s favourite moustachioed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, in this award-winning period crime drama series...

Former crusader-turned-holy man Brother Cadfael (Derek Jacobi) is the 12th century super-sleuth on the Welsh borders, who is much in demand....

Caroline Quentin stars in this real-life story about a trio of cleaners at the Bank of England’s incinerating plant who plot to steal thousands of pounds of old banknotes...

John Thaw stars as the grumpy, beer and classical-loving Oxford detective who frequently loses patience with his earnest but slower sidekick DS Robbie Lewis...

James Kavanagh, played by John Thaw, is a top flight barrister with a natural sympathy for the underdog and who often takes difficult cases for little reward...

This very satisfying adaptation of the Simenon crime novels stars Michael Gambon as the Paris detective who is more at home in cafes than his office...

Jeremy Brett makes the role of the legendary super-sleuth his own in this acclaimed series which remains faithful to Doyle’s original stories of murder and theft...

Roger Moore plays the smooth-talking action adventurer Simon Templar in this cult 1960s show. He travels the world fighting crime and wooing beautiful women...

DS Wycliffe (Jack Shepherd) is old school and deeply suspicious of new-fangled policing methods imposed on his windswept Cornish beat...

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