Best Classic Detective
The Sherlock Holmes series is a collection of detective stories and novels by British author Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring Holmes, a consulting detective in London, and Dr. John Watson, his friend and chronicler. Holmes uses observation, inference, and scientific reasoning to investigate cases that...
The Hercule Poirot series is a body of detective fiction by Agatha Christie featuring Hercule Poirot, a Belgian former police officer who becomes a private detective. Poirot is distinguished by his methodical attention to psychology, motive, and what he calls his little grey cells, and many cases ar...
The Miss Marple series is a group of mystery novels and short stories by Agatha Christie featuring Jane Marple, an elderly woman from the English village of St Mary Mead. Miss Marple has no official detective position, but she applies her knowledge of human behavior and village life to crimes involv...
Miss Marple is a British television adaptation of Agatha Christie's stories produced for ITV and broadcast from 1984 to 1992. Joan Hickson played Miss Marple, an elderly amateur detective whose understanding of human behavior helps her interpret crimes in village and country-house settings. The seri...
The Father Brown series is a collection of short mystery stories by English writer G. K. Chesterton featuring Father Brown, a Catholic priest who investigates crimes. Father Brown is physically unassuming, but he uses an understanding of human motives, sin, and moral psychology to reach explanations...
The Ellery Queen series is a body of detective fiction created by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee, who used Ellery Queen as a shared authorial name and as the name of their fictional detective. Ellery is an amateur investigator and writer who applies logical deduction to difficult cases,...
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments is a detective adventure game developed by Frogwares and released in 2014. It presents several independent cases in which the player examines locations, interviews witnesses, interprets evidence, and assembles deductions as Sherlock Holmes. The game allows concl...
Father Brown is a British television mystery series produced for BBC One and first broadcast in 2013. Mark Williams plays Father Brown, a Roman Catholic priest who investigates crimes in and around the fictional Cotswold village of Kembleford during the 1950s. The programme is inspired by G. K. Ches...
Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders is a point-and-click adventure and investigation video game released in 2016 by Microids. Adapted from Christie's novel, it places the player in the role of the Belgian private detective Hercule Poirot, who examines crime scenes, questions witnesses, gathers evidence...
The ABC Murders is a 2018 BBC One television miniseries adapted from Agatha Christie's novel of the same name. John Malkovich plays Hercule Poirot, an older detective drawn into a sequence of killings linked by an alphabetical pattern and railway guidebooks. The production presents a darker televisi...
