Best Detective Mystery

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers is a 1993 adventure game developed by Sierra On-Line. The story follows a novelist investigating murders in New Orleans, uncovering connections to voodoo and his fa...

The BBC's 'Sherlock' reimagines Arthur Conan Doyle's classic detective stories for the 21st century. Benedict Cumberbatch delivers a captivating performance as the brilliant but socially awkward Sherl...

Endeavour is a British detective drama set in Oxford, focusing on the early career of young Detective Constable Endeavour Morse within the City Police CID. The series serves as a prequel to Inspector...

A private detective becomes entangled in a dangerous search for a valuable statuette, facing a cast of shady characters. It's a quintessential film noir.

This Spanish bestseller follows a young boy in post-Civil War Barcelona who discovers a mysterious novel and becomes obsessed with finding its reclusive author, who may have met a sinister fate. Part...

The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures is an adventure game created by Capcom, directed by Shu Takumi, and produced by Shintaro Kojima. Initially released on the Nintendo 3DS in 2015, it was later ported...

Life on Mars is a British drama series concerning a contemporary police officer who inexplicably finds himself stranded in 1973. The show depicts his efforts to reconcile his present-day identity with...

Outfoxed! is a cooperative mystery game where players work together to solve the case of the missing pie. Children become detectives, using clues and deduction to identify the culprit. The game prom...

Following the closure of the "Laughing Man" case, Section 9 is re-established by Japan's newly elected Prime Minister, Youko Kayabuki, to combat the persistent threat of cyber-terrorism. A group calli...

Pluto is a masterful adaptation of a story arc from Astro Boy, reimagined as a dark, mature murder mystery. Set in a world where robots and humans coexist, a series of high-profile murders of both rob...

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog is a 1927 British silent thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted from Marie Belloc Lowndes’ novel and play. The film depicts a search for a serial killer o...

Columbo is an American crime drama centered on Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show initially ran on NBC from 1971 to 1978 as part of *The NBC Myst...

The Armed Detective Agency is still on the run from the Hunting Dogs, but not all hope is lost. Detective Ranpo Edogawa has a plan to prove the Agency's innocence and save the world from chaos: to fin...

Unforgotten is a British crime drama series centered around a group of London detectives investigating unsolved disappearances and murders. The show’s core team includes DCI Cassie Stuart, DCI Jessie...

While a book, the enduring cultural impact of the film adaptation (especially the 1941 version) makes it a necessary inclusion for understanding the genre's visual language. It defined the look, the d...

The Gabriel Knight series is a series of graphic adventure games where players take on the role of Gabriel Knight, a bookstore owner and amateur detective investigating supernatural mysteries rooted i...

Justice, and the enforcement of it, has changed. In the 22nd century, Japan enforces the Sibyl System, an objective means of determining the threat level of each citizen by examining their mental stat...

No longer concerned with military affairs, Yukichi Fukuzawa intends to act as a lone bodyguard-for-hire, making use of his deadly swordsmanship. However, things are not going as planned for his freela...

In the year 2029, Niihama City has become a technologically advanced metropolis. Due to great improvements in cybernetics, its citizens are able to replace their limbs with robotic parts. The world is...

Professor Layton and the Last Specter is a puzzle adventure game for Nintendo DS. The title serves as a prequel to the main series, exploring events three years prior to the first trilogy’s narrative....

The Missing is a British drama series exploring disappearance cases. The initial eight-part series focused on a search for a missing child in France, featuring Tchéky Karyo as a lead detective alongsi...

Following the conclusion of the three-way organizational war, government bureaucrat Ango Sakaguchi recalls an event that transpired years ago, after the death of the former Port Mafia boss. Osamu Daza...

Damo was a 2003 South Korean drama set during the Joseon period. The series centered around Chae-ok, a damo detective investigating crimes committed by women of high social standing. It ran for fourte...

The Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny follows Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec as he investigates murders in the fictional village of Three Pines. The series is known for...

Hotel Dusk: Room 215 is a point-and-click adventure game for the Nintendo DS. It debuted at E3 2006 and launched in North America on January 22, 2007, utilizing the Rumble Pak accessory. A re-release...

Shinichi Kudou, a high school student of astounding talent in detective work, is well known for having solved several challenging cases. One day, when Shinichi spots two suspicious men and decides to...

Dial M for Murder is a 1954 thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted from Frederick Knott’s play. The story premiered initially as a BBC Television production in 1952, followed by stage per...

Armed Detective Agency members discuss the most suitable candidate for the second-in-command. Doppo Kunikida is carrying out official errands as planned in his diary as usual. Unexpectedly, a bomb-rel...

Miss Marple is a British television series adapting Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple murder mysteries, featuring Joan Hickson as the titular character. The show ran from 1984 to 1992 on BBC One and prese...