The film begins aboard a luxury aircraft as Dr. Gropinger (Ron Moody) travels on a goodwill tour.

The Last Detective is a British TV drama series, broadcast on ITV between 7 February 2003 and 31 May 2007, starring Peter Davison as the title character, Detective Constable "Dangerous Davies".

The Commander focuses on Clare Blake, leader of an elite murder investigative squad based in London, who allows her interpersonal relationships to cloud her judgement, and who, on several occasions, makes bad calls which are detrimental to an investigation.

When San Francisco private detective Sam Spade dies, his son, Sam, Jr.

Based on Agatha Christie's original work, this limited series chronicles the adventures of Tommy and Prudence "Tuppence" Beresford as the duo take over operations of a London detective agency.

When Miss Marple's visiting friend sees a woman being strangled on a passing train, they immediately report it to the police.

Madeline Magellan, an investigative journalist, is the kind of journalist that generally sticks her nose in where it isn't wanted.

The Man with Bogart's Face (also called Sam Marlowe, Private Eye) is a 1980 American comedy film, released by 20th Century Fox and based on a novel of the same name.

Set in the leafy suburbs of 1950s London, the Beresfords find themselves in need of some adventure in their lives.

In December 1935, Hercule Poirot, having solved a case for a British Army garrison in Jordan, is due to travel to London on the Orient Express from Istanbul and encounters his old friend Signor Bianchi, a director of the company which owns the line.

Writer Mickey King lives in Rome churning out a string of violent, sexually charged hardboiled pulp fiction novels under an array of lewd pen names like "S. Odomy".

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional creation of Dr. John Watson who serves as the central character in a series of short stories published in The Strand Magazine.

A hiker finds a dead woman on the North York Moors. The victim had been strangled and is identified as Alice Ruber.

In November 1903, young women are being killed in London, each with a silk stocking stuffed down her throat.

Juliet Forrest, the daughter of noted scientist and cheesemaker John Hay Forrest, asks private investigator Rigby Reardon to investigate her father's death, which she believes to be murder.

"Have you heard? The Queen's dead!" an older man in the pub tells Byron (Mackey).

Veronica Mars is a 2014 American neo-noir mystery film produced and directed by Rob Thomas, who co-wrote the script with Diane Ruggiero.