"named 'Beersheba' in the novel is based on Jericho. As an homage to Hardy, in 1996, one of Jericho's pubs was renamed Jude the Obscure. The first episode of the long running ITV drama series ""Inspector Morse"", starring British actor John Thaw, called """"The Dead of Jericho"""", was partially filmed in the streets of Jericho, notably Combe Road (which is 'Canal Reach' in the drama). It also featured the exterior of the Bookbinders Arms public house on the corner of Victor Street. The spin-off show ""Lewis"" also has stories based around the same area. Philip Pullman set parts of his"
"senior assistant secretary at the University of Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations (UODLE) in Oxford, a job he held until his retirement in 1988. In November 2008, Dexter featured prominently in the BBC programme ""How to Solve a Cryptic Crossword"" as part of the ""Time Shift"" series, in which he recounted some of the crossword clues solved by Morse. The initial books written by Dexter were general studies text books. He began writing mysteries in 1972 during a family holiday. ""Last Bus to Woodstock"" was published in 1975 and introduced the character of Inspector Morse, the irascible detective whose penchants"
"Roderick Thorp Roderick Mayne Thorp, Jr. (September 1, 1936 – April 28, 1999) was an American novelist specializing mainly in police procedural/crime novels. His 1966 novel ""The Detective"" was made into a 1968 film of the same name, starring Frank Sinatra as Detective Joe Leland. He is however better known for its sequel, the bestselling novel ""Nothing Lasts Forever"", which is the basis for the film ""Die Hard"", starring Bruce Willis. Two other Thorp novels, ""Rainbow Drive"" and ""Devlin"", were adapted into TV movies. Thorp was born in Bronx, New York City. As a young college graduate, Thorp worked at"
"his later boss, and pathologist Max De Bryn. A second series of four episodes followed, screening in March and April 2014. In January 2016, the third series aired, also containing four episodes. A fourth series was aired, with four episodes, in January 2017. Filming of a fifth series of six episodes began in Spring 2017 with the first episode aired on 4 February 2018. An adaptation by Melville Jones of Last Bus to Woodstock featured in BBC Radio 4's Saturday Night Theatre series in June 1985, with Andrew Burt as Morse and Christopher Douglas as Lewis. In the 1990s, an"
"arrival in St. Louis, which made him ineligible for a transplant. He died on October 9, 2009. Stuart M. Kaminsky Stuart M. Kaminsky (September 29, 1934 – October 9, 2009) was an American mystery writer and film professor. He is known for three long-running series of mystery novels featuring the protagonists Toby Peters, a private detective in 1940s Hollywood; Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, a Moscow police inspector; and veteran Chicago police officer Abe Lieberman. A later series followed Lew Fonesca, a process server from Sarasota, Florida. Kaminsky's Inspector Rostnikov novel ""A Cold Red Sunrise"" received the 1989 Edgar Award for"
"(2010), and ""The Highly Effective Detective Crosses the Line"" (2011). By 2010, Yancey had completed the first book in ""The Monstrumologist"" series. The tetralogy tells the tale of a 19th-century doctor and his young apprentice, who race around the world chasing—and being chased by—monsters. This highly acclaimed series, published by Simon and Schuster Children’s Books in the U.S. and the U.K, and in eight foreign language editions, comprised four books: ""The Monstrumologist"" (2009), ""The Curse of the Wendigo"" (2010), ""The Isle of Blood"" (2011), and ""The Final Descent"" (2013). Rick Yancey Richard ""Rick"" Yancey (born November 4, 1962) is an"
"are lines from ""The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"". ""The Hollow Men"" is also the title of Eliot's poem from 1925. Jericho (UK TV series) Jericho is a British period crime drama series, first broadcast as a series of four episodes on ITV from 16 October 2005. The series was written and created by Stewart Harcourt, and starred Robert Lindsay as Detective Inspector Michael Jericho, a Scotland Yard detective who is loved by the public but embarrassed by his status as a hero. The series was set in London in 1958. The series was seen as an attempt to"
"James Lee Burke James Lee Burke (born December 5, 1936) is an American author of mysteries, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won Edgar Awards for ""Black Cherry Blues"" (1990) and ""Cimarron Rose"" (1998), and has also been presented with the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. The Robicheaux character has been portrayed twice on screen, first by Alec Baldwin (""Heaven's Prisoners"") and then Tommy Lee Jones (""In the Electric Mist""). Burke was also nominated for a Pulitzer award for his novel, ""The Lost Get-Back Boogie"". Burke's 1982 novel, ""Two for Texas"", was made"
"He is an associate member of the British Actors' Theatre Company. He has made numerous television appearances. His best-known roles include Robert Hastings during the final series of ""Howards' Way"", violent P.E. teacher Mr. Hicks in ""Grange Hill"" and the Castellan in two ""Doctor Who"" stories, ""Arc of Infinity"" and ""The Five Doctors"". Jerricho was also a regular in all three series of ""Triangle"" as Charles Woodhouse. Other TV appearances include: """", ""Secret Army"", ""Enemy at the Door"", ""The Bill"", ""Doctors"", ""Footballers' Wives"", ""Holby City"", ""Look Around You"" and ""EastEnders"". Jerricho is divorced with two daughters, he has one son"
"and influential ""Observer"" puzzle setter 'Ximenes'. In ""The Sins of the Fathers"", he investigates a murder in a brewery-owning family, and in the first episode of the series, ""The Dead of Jericho"", he compares the life of a dead woman with that of Jocasta, the mother of Oedipus. The same episode also introduced his Jaguar Mark 2 automobile, which is damaged at the beginning and the end of the story, being used to prevent the escape of the perpetrators. His interest in classic cars is also explored in ""Driven to Distraction"", in which he suspects a car salesman of murder."
"arsenic poisoning in some studies. Ted Gunderson Theodore L. Gunderson (November 7, 1928 – July 31, 2011) was an American Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent In Charge and head of the Los Angeles FBI. According to his son, he worked the case of Marilyn Monroe and the John F. Kennedy cases. He was the author of the best-selling book ""How to Locate Anyone Anywhere"". Ted Gunderson was born in Colorado Springs. He graduated from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1950. Gunderson joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation in December 1951 under J. Edgar Hoover. He served in the Mobile,"
"The Last Victim The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer (1999) is a non-fiction work by author Jason Moss in which he details his fascination and subsequent correspondence with several notorious American serial killers. In 1994, Moss was an 18-year-old college student at UNLV. While studying for his honors thesis, he established relationships by correspondence with John Wayne Gacy, Richard Ramirez, Henry Lee Lucas, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Charles Manson. He obtained samples of correspondence from and interviews with these men. Moss researched what would most interest each subject, and cast himself in the role"
"The Last Coyote The Last Coyote is the fourth novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, featuring the Los Angeles detective Hieronymus ""Harry"" Bosch. It was first published in 1995 and the novel won the 1996 Dilys Award given by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch has seen and then dreamed about a lone coyote near his home in the hills near Los Angeles and discusses it during a departmental required therapy session. The psychologist interprets it that Bosch believes that there are not many policeman like himself left and that he feels the same threat"
"Richard Grieco Richard John Grieco Jr. (born March 23, 1965) is an American actor and former fashion model. He is best known for his role as Detective Dennis Booker from the popular Fox series ""21 Jump Street"" (1988-89) and its spin-off ""Booker"" (1989-90). He also starred in various movies like ""If Looks Could Kill"" and ""Mobsters"" (both 1991). Since the height of his fame, he has voiced characters in several video games and appeared as either himself or his ""21 Jump Street"" character in several films and television shows. For the last decade, he has painted in a style he"
"of San Francisco's police chief, Colin Hill, a character apparently modeled on SFPD's real-life chief at that time, Thomas J. Cahill, to whom the book is dedicated. More recently, Collin Wilcox wrote a long series featuring Lieutenant Frank Hastings of SFPD's Homicide Detail. Laurie R. King won an Edgar for her first novel, ""A Grave Talent"" (1993), which introduced Homicide Inspector Kate Martinelli, who has gone on to headline such books as ""With Child"" (1997), an Edgar nominee, and ""The Art of Detection"" (2006), winner of the Lambda Award for Best Lesbian Mystery Novel. James Patterson's novels about Homicide Inspector"
"and final book), it follows Lloyd Hopkins an LAPD robbery-homicide detective in the 1980s. ""Because the Night"" features Hopkins investigating a triple murder at a liquor store. Nothing was stolen, leading Hopkins to suspect that the crime was a thrill killing. His investigation crosses paths with psychiatrist John Havilland, who uses drugs and professional expertise to manipulate a small group of followers into crime and debauchery. Because the Night (novel) Because the Night is a crime fiction novel written by James Ellroy. Released in 1984, it is the second installment of a trilogy that is either titled ""Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy"""
"Stuart M. Kaminsky Stuart M. Kaminsky (September 29, 1934 – October 9, 2009) was an American mystery writer and film professor. He is known for three long-running series of mystery novels featuring the protagonists Toby Peters, a private detective in 1940s Hollywood; Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, a Moscow police inspector; and veteran Chicago police officer Abe Lieberman. A later series followed Lew Fonesca, a process server from Sarasota, Florida. Kaminsky's Inspector Rostnikov novel ""A Cold Red Sunrise"" received the 1989 Edgar Award for Best Novel. He earned six other Edgar nominations, most recently for the 2005 non-fiction book ""Behind the"
"Wendigo published in 2010 , The Isle of Blood published in 2011 and The Final Descent in 2013. The Monstrumologist The Monstrumologist is a young adult horror novel written by American author Rick Yancey. It was published on September 22, 2009 by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing. It is the first book in ""The Monstrumologist"" series, followed by ""The Curse of the Wendigo"". The story follows Will Henry, an orphaned assistant to Dr. Pellinore Warthrop, a man who specializes in monstrumology, the study of monsters. The novel received the 2010 Michael L. Printz Honor Award for excellence in young adult"
"and for his lifetime achievements the Mystery Writers of America named him a Grand Master at the 1979 Edgar Awards. His final book, ""The Garbage Collector"", was published in 1984. Stein died of cancer in 1985, at the age of 79, in Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. In addition to the hero of most of the Bagby novels, Inspector Schmidt, Stein also created a New York City Assistant District Attorney named Jeremiah Gibson for the books published under the Stone pseudonym, and archaeologist detectives Tim Mulligan and Elsie Mae Hunt, as well as engineer Matt Herridge, for the mysteries published"
"""The Old Die Young"" (1980); Shapiro also appeared in one Heimrich novel, ""Murder Can't Wait"" (1964). Richard and Frances Lockridge began a fourth detective series with ""Night of the Shadows"" (1962), a police procedural featuring a New York City Police detective, Paul Lane. Lane was the main character in ""Quest for the Bogeyman"" (1964), and then he and partner Sgt., then later Lt., John Stein, were prominently featured in the six novels focused on New York County assistant district attorney Bernard Simmons that followed that character's first appearance, in ""And Left for Dead"" (1962). (The novels featuring the interplay and"
"the Dead"". The first episode drew in 5.9 million viewers, but this quickly fell to 4.7 million for the second episode, significantly less than its BBC rival. Critical response to the series was cautious, and a second series was not commissioned. The series was later shown in the United States in 2006 and 2007 under the under the title Jericho of Scotland Yard as part of the PBS ""Mystery!"" series, and was also broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2008. Detective Inspector Michael Jericho – who has a Jewish background – is the son of an English policeman who"
"The Detective (novel) The Detective is a thriller/detective novel by author Roderick Thorp, first published hardcover in 1966. It was made into the 1968 movie of the same name, starring Frank Sinatra, as Detective Joe Leland. Billed as, ""An adult look at police life,"" ""The Detective"" went on to become one of the highest-grossing films of 1968 and one of the strongest box-office hits of Sinatra's acting career. A 1979 sequel, ""Nothing Lasts Forever"", was later made into the 1988 film ""Die Hard"", which spawned a series totalling five films. Joe Leland, a private detective, begins investigating a case for"
"the partner of Detective Sergeant Jake Martin, a veteran but cynical member of the Homicide Detail working the bus massacre investigation. Jake originally investigated the Teresa Camarero case and has been obsessed with his failure to ""make"" Camarero for the murder. Jake returns to it after many dead-end leads (including a disastrous confrontation with a deranged amputee who takes hostages at gunpoint) in the bus investigation. Niles was killed on the bus as well, and it was Niles who provided the alibi that enabled Camarero to cover up his wife's murder. The sullen Jake and enthusiastic but impulsive Inspector Leo"
"to her death. A television episode in 1964 had Geoffrey Keen in the lead role, Keith Barron as Nigel Bathgate, Joss Ackland as Jasper Garnett and Nigel Hawthorne as a temple doorkeeper. A dramatisation by John Tidyman of the novel was broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Night Theatre in September 1969, with Peter Howell as Alleyn and Gary Watson as Nigel Bathgate. Death in Ecstasy Death in Ecstasy is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the fourth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1936. When lovely Cara Quayne dropped dead to the floor"
"a detective agency owned by his father. He would later teach literature and lecture on creative writing at schools and universities in New Jersey and California, and also wrote articles for newspapers and magazines. Thorp died of a heart attack in Oxnard, California. Roderick Thorp Roderick Mayne Thorp, Jr. (September 1, 1936 – April 28, 1999) was an American novelist specializing mainly in police procedural/crime novels. His 1966 novel ""The Detective"" was made into a 1968 film of the same name, starring Frank Sinatra as Detective Joe Leland. He is however better known for its sequel, the bestselling novel ""Nothing"
"that discovery in his 2017 nonfiction book, ""The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story"", which became a #1 New York Times bestseller. Preston was one of many on the expedition who contracted an aggressive parasitic disease, called mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, in the lost city. Douglas Preston Douglas Jerome Preston (born May 31, 1956) is an American journalist and author. Although he is best known for his thrillers in collaboration with Lincoln Child (including the ""Agent Pendergast"" series and ""Gideon Crew"" series), he has also written six solo novels, including the ""Wyman Ford"" series and a novel entitled ""Jennie"","
"water, tonic, and cathartic from this city is also known as Ballston Spa. The liquid contains common salt and carbonates of magnesium and calcium. Portions of the novel ""The Last of the Mohicans"" were written by James Fenimore Cooper in the present day Brookside Museum and inspired by the local landscape. The village was the model for the village of North Bath, NY, the setting for the 1993 best-selling novel and 1994 movie, ""Nobody's Fool"". The book's author, Richard Russo, is a native of nearby Gloversville. It was also the location of the fictional ""Elspeth Hatch"" murder trial defended by"
"found an illegal abattoir; the villain chases her but gets stuck in the caves and dies of hypothermia. Abattoir Blues (novel) Abattoir Blues (American title: In the Dark Places) is the 22nd novel by Canadian detective fiction writer Peter Robinson in the Inspector Banks series set in Yorkshire. It was published in 2014. DCI Banks has been on holiday in Italy (Umbria) meeting girlfriend Oriana's family. He is due back on Tuesday but calls in at work a day early. DC Gerry Masterson says ""You're a glutton for punishment, sir"". When talking to a witness, a retired policeman who says"
"read in order of publication. This series and the Amelia Peabody series are slightly related: a fictional tomb discovered by Amelia Peabody and her husband plays an important role in ""Night Train to Memphis"", and in ""The Laughter of Dead Kings"" it is revealed that John Smythe is related to the Emersons. In this series, Jacqueline Kirby is a librarian with a very large purse and a knack for solving mysteries. In the first book, ""The Seventh Sinner"", Jacqueline is an unwilling detective. Though it was intended as a stand-alone novel, the protagonist's quirkiness and pursuit of romantic relationships made"
"from Hell"" and ""Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac"" from 1994 until his death in 2007. ""O Xangô de Baker Street"" (1995) tells the comic story of Sherlock Holmes's visit to Brazil, invited by the emperor Dom Pedro II, to solve the disappearance of a Stradivarius violin which becomes a hunt for a serial killer. Larry Millett has written six books and a short story featuring Holmes solving mysteries in Minnesota. Michael Mallory has written more than two dozen short stories and two novels featuring ""Amelia Watson,"" the second wife of Dr. Watson. These are not pastiches so much as"
"Harry Bosch Detective Hieronymus ""Harry"" Bosch (pronounced ""He-ron-ee-mus"" ""Bosh"") is a fictional character created by American author Michael Connelly. Bosch debuted as the lead character in the 1992 novel ""The Black Echo"", the first in a best-selling police procedural series now numbering 21 novels. The novels are more or less coincident in timeframe with the year in which they were published. Harry, as he is commonly known by his associates, is a veteran police homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. Bosch was named after the 15th century Dutch artist, Hieronymus Bosch. Since 2015, Titus Welliver has portrayed the"
"FBI bank robbery investigation. Hopkins then manipulates his way into robbery/homicide investigations. The novel's story line and characters twist and turn. Suicide Hill Suicide Hill is a crime fiction novel written by James Ellroy. Released in 1986, it is the third and final installment of the ""Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy"". In an October 13, 2017 interview, actor Tom Hanks stated that he would be interested in playing the part of Lloyd Hopkins if a film or stage adaptation was to be put into production. The novel begins a psychiatrist's assessment recommending that Hopkins be immediately retired from duty with a full"
"novel ""Dead City"". In Stevens' novel ""By Reason of Insanity"" the serial killer character, Thomas Bishop, believes he is the son of Caryl Chessman, who was executed in 1960 for various crimes including rape and kidnapping. The hero of his later novel ""The Anvil Chorus"", a Paris police inspector, is an Alsatian Jew apparently related to Alfred Dreyfus. Stevens also wrote two crime novels under the pseudonym J.W. Rider: ""Jersey Tomatoes"" (Arbor 1986); ""Hot Tickets"" (Arbor 1987). The protagonist is Ryder Malone in both novels. The setting is New Jersey. (Reference: Allen J. Hubin: Crime Fiction IV. A Comprehensive Bibliography,"