Rocky King, Detective

The View from Daniel Pike is a 1971–73 Scottish TV drama series created and written by Edward Boyd, and starring Roddy McMillan as Daniel Pike, a hard-boiled private detective based in Glasgow. A few of the stories were later adapted into book form.

A ghost was seen on the 12th floor of the Asakusa Juunikai building. A newspaper article featuring the sighting brought together Takuboku Ishikawa, who runs a private detective agency and his assistant Kyosuke Kindaichi to solve the case.

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

Hardboiled private detective Mike Hammer works to solve cases, often involving murder. A recurring plotline focuses on the murder of someone to whom Hammer was close, resulting in his quest for revenge.

A group of friends who grew up together were separated after a building that collapsed changed their fates forever. When they meet again many years later, their identities have become very different that it is difficult to distinguish between friend or foe, yet they continue to struggle between justice and friendship.