Natalie Haynes's TV detectives
Danger Mouse: Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives #23
Natalie Haynes: The James Bond of the rodent world is 30 years old. But age has not blunted the brilliance of this classic kids' cartoon
Sarah Lund: Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives #22
Natalie Haynes: Without Sofie Gråbøl as Sarah Lund, The Killing would be just another sad-eyed, bleak-skied crime drama. With her, it's the most compelling thing on TV
Jonathan Creek: Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives #21
Natalie Haynes: The magician-turned-sleuth is a modern-day Victorian gentleman detective – more about solving seemingly impossible puzzles than catching criminals
The Wire's Lester Freamon: Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives #20
Natalie Haynes: In a show crawling with iconic TV detectives, the Baltimore police department's finest has what every real cop needs in spades: infinite patience
Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #19 – Warehouse 13
Natalie Haynes: Supernatural artefacts and smart-mouthed dialogue ... this is a show that should not be kept under wraps
Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #18 – House
Natalie Haynes: Technically he might not be a detective – but Hugh Laurie's modern-day Sherlock Holmes has all the hallmarks of a truly great television sleuth
Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #17 – Midsomer Murders' Tom Barnaby
Natalie Haynes: John Nettles' Barnaby is a fiercely sensible man, the calm centre of his blood-drenched village and its atmosphere of cosy malice
Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #16 - Psych's Shawn Spencer
Natalie Haynes: The crime-busting fake clairvoyant at the heart of a show that wears its silliness on its sleeve
Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #15 – Montalbano
Natalie Haynes: Inspector Montalbano is swoonsome, macho and not afraid to show his less-serious side
Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #14 – Morse
Natalie Haynes: John Thaw was sublime as the tragic hero Inspector Morse, an emotionally closed-off man driven by a sense of duty
Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #13 – Miss Marple
Natalie Haynes: Joan Hickson was the perfect Marple - capturing her fluffy ruthlessness so completely that nobody before or since has matched her
Natalie Haynes' guide to TV detectives: #12 - Veronica Mars
Natalie Haynes: Despite the reluctance of UK terrestrial TV to give it an outing, there's still a lot of life in Veronica Mars
Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #11 – Vera
Natalie Haynes: The main character's lack of discernible policing skills makes for a thoroughly perplexing and underwhelming series
Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #10 – Adrian Monk
Natalie Haynes: Tony Shalhoub's brilliant yet vulnerable obsessive compulsive detective can outsmart any crook
Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #9 – Sherlock Holmes
Natalie Haynes: You can keep your Cumberbatch and Rathbone. Of the 75-odd actors who have played Sherlock Holmes on screen, Jeremy Brett is the man
Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #8 – Richard Castle
Natalie Haynes: Featuring Nathan Fillion's mystery-writer-turned-detective, Castle plays like a hip Murder, She Wrote– with added sexual tension
Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #7 – Dr Mark Sloan
Natalie Haynes: Diagnosis Murder's Dick Van Dyke is a roller-skating, barbershop-singing global treasure
Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #6 – Scott & Bailey
Natalie Haynes: It's been described as Cagney and Lacey in Manchester, but the ITV1 series has a whole squad of strong female characters
Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #5 – Magnum PI
Natalie Haynes: War veteran Magnum with his iconic red Ferrari is one of only five men in history to look better with a moustache
Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #4 – Patrick Jane
Natalie Haynes: The tension between Jane and Red John makes for good TV – but it is the weekly mysteries that make the Mentalist addictive
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