[No name given]

Rest In Peace, Peter.

[Jim W N]

the first author to set a successful detective series

What about Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes?

[OldHarbor]

Granada Tv made 13 episodes of Cribb (Sgt Cribb in North America )

Available on YouTube

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Lovesey showed that it was possible to combine a well-plotted mystery with a pungent evocation of the past.

John Dickson Carr was doing that decades earlier, though Carr didn't use a recurring detective character in his historical mysteries, so in that sense they weren't a series.

[Larry Lucido]

Hint: It’s always the butler.

[packrat35]

I like Stuart M Kaminsky’s Toby Peters detective series. Every one set in the 1940’s with a famous celebrity of the day, Errol Flynn, Mae West, etc

[x]

I have been watching the new Inspector Dalgliesh series. It’s pretty good and not as politically correct as some other Britcop shows. P.D. James gimmick was that Dalgliesh was not only a policeman but also a published poet. I wonder why that one’s not more widely used. Kojack, National Book Award winner. Magnum, M.F.A Writing Instructor. Mike Hammer, accomplished sonneteer.