Hints and tips:
...A good example would be Detective Constable Colin Saysell. If the BTP is the Gotham City Police Department, and Turner is Commissioner Gordon, Colin Saysell is Batman....
...’m the real book detective!”...
...Detective Myles Cosgrove and Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly, who also fired their weapons that night, were not indicted....
...In the introduction to Crime Beat, a collection of his newspaper articles, he describes how one real-life policeman — Sergeant George Hurt — served as a study for the character of his LAPD detective Harry...
...The detective who ordered the arrest never did, though they have since shared an elevator at headquarters....
...Detective Sergeant Vernon Rapley, a police officer with 23 years’ experience, has for the past eight years headed the Metropolitan Police’s Art and Antiques Unit....
...It’s Hannah’s less entertaining police officers Simon Waterhouse and Charlie Zailer who, like Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie and George’s Inspector Lynley, will live to encounter violent death another day....
...But there are literary antecedents too, including Bleak House’s Inspector Bucket and The Moonstone’s Sergeant Cuff....
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