#Detectives

[driveintheaterofthemind]

Tintin Meets The Detectives

Art by Adam Murphy

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Dr Doolittle-style show about a detective who can talk to animals, except instead of talking like people the animals still talk like animals, just translated into English sentences, so the plot of most episodes centres around trying to figure out what the star witness testimony actually means.

Victim's murder was witnessed by her pet snake, whose tank was in the room. Unfortunately pet snake is incapable of describing the world around them except in terms of 'rocks' and 'meat', with their descriptions of individual forms of 'meat' focusing almost entirely on body temperature and smell.

(Solved when it turns out that their description of 'warm-cold meat with rock' was actually an attempt to describe a suspect with a prosthetic limb, which is pretty unnoticeable to a human, but looks dramatically different in infrared.)

Murder at a honey farm. Each witness managed to see about ~0.06% of the full crime, in order to get the full picture, you have to get them to swarm.

Victim was found several days after death, already crawling with maggots. Days into the investigation, protag begins a frantic search to find any surviving maggots/flies that were on the corpse, after realising that how the victim tasted would give vital information about the poison used.

Also there's at least one or two animals who actually do talk in full sentences and in terms humans can understand, and the reason behind this is never fully explained.

All cats in this universe talk in terms of 'mine/not-mine' and mainly focus on territory, mates and food, with the one exception of the main character's cat who is named Watson and knows how to use sarcasm.

All insects speak in one word sentences where everything is 'food', 'enemy' or (for hive insects) 'friend' and 'queen', with the exception of seven-spotted ladybirds specifically, who for some reason speak in full English sentences and are up to date and knowledgeable about world events. The protagonists is as concerned by the full implications of this as you are.

[kazoosandfannypacks]

as always, I'd love to hear your answer in the tags, especially if it's one of the "other" choices!

[bridgekc]

started watching detective conan cuz that cousin situation was so funny and i needed context 💀

my condolences to those affected 🙏

[browsethestacks]

Tintin Meets Holmes And Watson

Art by Adam Murphy

[thehauntedrocket]

Elementary Dear Data...

Art by Rachael Stott

[cloudofbutterflies]

Benoit Blanc & Sherlock Holmes both prove that the best detectives aren’t actual trained detectives but nosy gay men who drink their respect women juice and hate the rich.

[kirain]

Sherlock Holmes

Hercule Poirot

Phryne Fisher

Benoit Blanc

Adrian Monk

Nancy Drew

Dick Tracy

Columbo

Miss Marple

[captainfantasticalright]

Edwardian etiquette with Edwin Payne.

This guide promises to cover why Edwin's posture is always straight and not slouched, why he barely does physical touch (but we see that evolve), and some of his mannerisms and vocabulary.

It also includes a whole late Victorian/ Edwardian dictionary here if you want to learn some old lingo.

However, it does not include instructions on how to tango nor on how to write postcards, two things that people in the Edwardian era loved to do.

[driveintheaterofthemind]

Scooby Gang

Art by Lee Gatlin

[kathaynesart]

It is time! I'm so excited to get the chance to go toe to toe with one of my all time favorite AU's in the @tmntaucompetition, Empyrean Weeping by @cupcakeslushie ! EW!Donnie is just a treasure that must be protected. Luckily Replica Donnie is willing to take him under his wing. Since the theme for this round of the competition is 1940's I just had to do them as a pair of a film noir styled Private Eyes with Replica as the seasoned sleuth and EW as his new, young upstart of a partner. Just saying they would probably make a good team!

You can vote HERE!

[spacebubblehomebase]

Forget whether we should trust the twins or not. I, for one, can't believe THEY trusted US in ANY official legal capacity! And here I thought we were (in)famous. LMAO XD (Seriously tho. Who thought this was a good idea??? 👀) -Bubbly💙

[one-true-houselight]

Different fictional detectives response to the ‘scratched iPhone equals alcoholic’ bit

Holmes (Elementary): after a long diatribe about not outing alcoholics/addicts and a weird aside about winding old watches, he explains that his tortoise Clyde gets at it sometimes.

Shawn Spencer (Psych): Shawn has never put his phone on a charger at more than 10% battery. More often, he is ‘borrowing’ others chargers and struggling to put the plug in as he is in the midst of watching a random video and the phone is actively dying.

Columbo: “well you see, I work late a lot, you know, justice never sleeps. But you know who does? My wife. She needs her beauty sleep, so I try not to wake her when I come in after she’s gone to bed. Luckily, my wife can sleep through pretty much any noise, so that’s not an issue. But she can’t abide by light, so I’ve gotta plug in my phone with the lights off! That’ll scratch it right up, let me tell you. Anyway, I just have one more question…”

[emlvi56]

DETECTIVE. ARRIVING. ON THE SCENE. I've been kind of obsessed (understatement) with these boys and their world since I picked up Disco Elysium for the very first time this past October. "How did you get so cool, Kim?" "Despite all this -- [Detective Du Bois] is a great detective. One of the best I've seen, in fact." I love them so much.