Today’s great detective first came to life on the silver screen, but his character pays homage to some of his famous literary...

The theme music from the Agatha Christie’s Poirot TV series is instantly recognisable and won its composer Christopher Gunning his second...

We head across the Atlantic from the UK/Europe for the location of today’s Great Detective series, but both the award-nominated actor and...

What does it take to make a truly authentic on-screen Great Detective? In a previous post, we looked at the brilliant Aussie trio behind...

Sherlock Holmes is known for his sharp wit and keen eye for detail. But he also had a passion for music, and particularly violin music....

There is real life mystery in the life of Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, creator of two very individual literary Great Detectives,...

Like most credible writing, Nicolas Freeling’s idea for Commissariat Piet Van der Valk came out of real life events. Having dropped out...

The TV series “Midsomer Murders”, based on UK writer Caroline Graham's Inspector Barnaby mystery novels , originally had a working title...

Sherlock Holmes’ now familiar deerstalker cap and curved calabash tobacco pipe were not really part of the original character in the...

Here’s one for the musical super-sleuths! How is Franz Liszt linked to The Pink Panther in the world of the movies? “Song without End”...

Everyone knows the character Inspector Barnaby and the exquisitely mysterious theme music for Midsomer Murders, but who is the composer...

What’s the connection between the 1964 hit single “Have I the Right?” (which pushed The Beatles out of number one spot in the charts) and...

The author of the Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries crime novels is not a household name like Agatha Christie, in spite of her own...

Matt Monro, known as “the Man with the Golden Voice” recorded the song “And you smiled” in 1973. This reached 28 on the UK charts, but...

Barely fictional (the Belgian town of Ellezelles proudly displays his birth certificate), this most famous of the "Great Detectives" has...

Every musician is a detective at heart and loves to solve a mystery.