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If you love Agatha Christie, you'll fall in love with these great detective shows, from Rosemary & Thyme to Agatha Raisin.

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the list is endless. Detective stories captivate us today in books, on television, and at the movies. Fictional policemen, FBI agents, lawyers, criminal profilers, private investigators ...

Question: Aside from Father Brown, are there any other fictional clerical detectives? Clerical detectives – priests, monks, rabbis and other religious figures solving crimes – are popular ...

There are a number of established book series in which a religious figure features as part-time detective ... enigmatic situations,” says Buddhist Fiction Blog. Martin Edwards is a crime ...