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    An armchair detective is a fictional investigator who does not personally visit a crime scene or interview witnesses; instead, the detective either reads...
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  • Armchair Detective is an American television game show that was broadcast on CBS from July 6, 1949, through September 28, 1949. It was the first CBS TV...
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  • Armchair Detectives is a British gameshow whodunnit series that debuted in 2017. The show was commissioned for BBC One Daytime and is produced by Tiger...
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  • The Armchair Detective is a 1952 British mystery film directed by Brendan J. Stafford and starring Ernest Dudley, Hartley Power, and Sally Newton. It was...
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  • internal checklist of films I was reminded of, I was happily playing armchair detective, curious enough to engage with the pieces I was given." "Fractured"...
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    Class, quiz show The Lie on STV, and the BBC One shows The Boss and Armchair Detectives. In 2017 Calman was a contestant on BBC's Strictly Come Dancing alongside...
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  • Birmingham Mail. Trinity Mirror. Retrieved 27 May 2016. "Crook "armchair detective" releases book claiming Yorkshire Ripper could have had 23 more victims"...
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    in front of the ears!" Francis, Dick (1990). For Kicks. New York: Armchair Detective Library. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-922890-59-0. Wikimedia Commons has media...
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  • of exotica", Korla Pandit, playing the Novachord and Hammond Organ Armchair Detective – a half-hour crime reenactment series produced at KTLA that aired...
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    chair. This is one of three books of short stories featuring Orczy's armchair detective, and although the first published it is second chronologically. The...
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  • to France's current bestselling crime writer, Frédéric Dard". The Armchair Detective. 22 (4). trussel.com. Retrieved 24 March 2021. Susan L. Dorff is a...
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    Monsieur Lecoq (category Fictional detectives)
    scientifically minded detective. In French, "Monsieur" is "Mister" and his surname literally means "The Rooster". In the person of armchair detective Tabaret, nicknamed...
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    Dashiell Hammett (category American detective fiction writers)
    ISBN 0-1400-2941-9. G. Michael Doogan, Dash-ing Through the Snow, The Armchair Detective, Winter, 1989, pp. 82–91 Johnson, D. (1983) Dashiell Hammett: A Life...
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  • extensive and absorbing on its own, in fact, that all but the brainiest armchair detectives are likely to find it a serious distraction from the mystery to which...
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  • story of the Dark Knight, illustrated by Tom Yeates. The Armchair Detective. Armchair Detective, Incorporated. 1989. p. 403. Dirda, Michael (July 20, 2011)...
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    Remarkable Miss Tuttle. On early television, he played detective Jonas Flint on the game show Armchair Detective. Kendall was born in St. Louis, Missouri and died...
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  • Sinclair, Christopher Halliwell and Robert Black, styling himself as the Armchair Detective. Although his work has led to police re-investigations of some cases...
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  • Penzler Books. An imprint at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2005–2010). The Armchair Detective Library. Reprinted classic crime fiction for collectors and libraries...
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  • radio crime series Dr Morelle and also the television series The Armchair Detective. The Dr Morelle — 'the man you love to hate!' — series which was hugely...
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  • Title Role Notes 1950 The Elusive Pimpernel Captain Duroc 1952 The Armchair Detective Terry 1954 Beau Brummell Footman Uncredited 1954 Svengali Dodor 1957...
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  • One". BBC. Retrieved 16 July 2018. Lines, Craig (6 December 2017). "Armchair Detectives: brilliant new daytime TV murder mystery". Den of Geek. Retrieved...
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  • formula, Fatal Honeymoon plays like warmed-over comfort food for armchair detectives. Not even the unexpected presence of Harvey Keitel is enough to distinguish...
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    vocalist on "The Machine", co-writer of "He Said He Loved Me" and "Armchair Detective") 2007 – Dizzee Rascal – Maths + English ("Temptation") 2008 – Matt...
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    and the Writing of The Hound of the Baskervilles published in The Armchair Detective (Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 72–76). This periodical was founded in the autumn...
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    Nero Wolfe is a brilliant, obese and eccentric fictional armchair detective created in 1934 by American mystery writer Rex Stout. Wolfe was born in Montenegro...
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    The Old Man in the Corner is an unnamed armchair detective who appears in a series of short stories written by Baroness Orczy. He examines and solves crimes...
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  • travelled to the area during the search were criticised for being armchair detectives, while social media users were strongly criticised for engaging in...
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  • Williams, and made guest appearances in the BBC One series Doctors and Armchair Detectives. In 2019, he played Duncan in the Hulu television adaptation of the...
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  • respects the viewer's intelligence and commands you to become an armchair detective". Kevin O'Sullivan, writing for the Daily Mirror, called the first...
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  • 28 – "Detectives" Air Date: 1996-07-12 Description: Writer David Sedaris recalls the days when his mother and sister played armchair detective—until a...
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