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Phone-In Detective
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You have an Amateur Sleuth or an exotic detective. And to prove just how smart he is, not only can he solve any case just by scanning the crime scene, he can also solve crimes without ever having to visit the scene. The Phone-In Detective is the detective who is able to do some of his sleuthing over the phone due to being away for some reason. Full time Phone-In Detectives are rare, often the detectives will only have to phone in very few of their cases their whole life and will only do so for special cases. It is not completely necessary for any phones to be involved, however, the detective might get the information from telegrams, newspapers, e-mail, or regular reports from The Watson or the police. Will sometimes be the only interaction the lead has in a Lower-Deck Episode. Not to be confused with detectives who are "phoning it in," i.e. doing an incredibly lazy half-assed job. |
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Sherlock: Holmes, during "A Scandal in Belgravia", solved a case via webcam, which gave him a few quick glances at the crime scene. While wearing nothing but a bedsheet. When he meets Mycroft at the Buckingham Palace, Mycroft tells him that he glanced at the case file and tells Holmes that the solution is obvious. In "The Empty Hearse", there's a montage of Sherlock solving cases in the initial interview, including the Sherlock counterpart to "A Case of Identity". |
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Early in Sherlock Holmes (2009), the titular character hasn't left the flat for months after capturing Lord Blackwood having no interesting cases. Watson tries to get him interested in some cases, only for Holmes to brush him off having already solved them with the information in the letters alone. | |
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House, the medical detective, once had to solve a case through the phone while at the airport. Another case was solved over a webcam since the patient was stuck in Antarctica. Even in normal circumstances, he often can't be bothered to talk to the patient, and phones in a diagnosis via his underlings. | |
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Psych: Shawn began his crime-solving career by reporting anonymous tips to the police through the phone based off observations he made watching news reports. | |
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In the Lincoln Rhyme novels by Jeffrey Deaver, as in the film adaptaton, Rhyme is a quadriplegic former crime scene investigator, who solves crimes based on information Officer Amelia Sachs supplies him with. | |
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Miss Marple tends to remain in the background pottering around her little cottage or the village of St. Mary Mead while other characters do the bulk of the investigating work, and then pieces together the solution based on the details they bring to her. | |
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Black Widowers: "Northwestward", where the only information that the Black Widowers have is what Mr Wayne is able to convey about the mystery. This is quite enough for Henry to solve the problem. Other Black Widowers stories generally work in a similar manner, with Henry solving the mystery based on what the guest explains after dinner. | |
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In Three Act Tragedy, Poirot comes in late in the story, and by the time he becomes involved, most of the bulk investigation has been completed by the Amateur Sleuths. Poirot would remain in the background throughout the entire case, while the other three reported the results of their investigations to him. | |
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In Kyouko's tie-in novel, Danganronpa Kirigiri, she hears about one such detective who has a reputation for this, and notes that he's fairly reckless. Yui Samidare, Kyouko's detective partner, chides her and says she should respect her superiors in the field. | |
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In Copycat, Dr. Helen Hudson is a respected field expert on serial killers who has become an agoraphobic shut-in after being attacked by serial killer Daryll Lee Callum. When a new series of murders spread fear and panic across San Francisco, Inspector M.J. Monahan and her partner Reuben Goetz solicit Helen's expertise. Initially reluctant, Helen soon finds herself drawn into the warped perpetrator's game of wits. | |
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Nero Wolfe who rarely left his brownstone, having Archie Goodwin act as his leg man and collect all the information he needed to solve the crime. | |
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Schlock Mercenary: In-universe, the long-running Othlin TV series Murderfinder and Meat Puppet, whose essential gimmick involves a brilliant detective with a dangerously compromised immune system who serves as a Phone-In Detective to a low-level cop on the street — although she gives him so much direction she might as well be called Mission Control. Telepresence rigs are common for a variety of purposes, from doing dangerous experiments to police work. Apparently the fact that Murderfinder is unable to use a standard telepresence rig due to a complication with her disease pushes the already improbable premise straight into ridiculous. |
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Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector is another adaptation of Jeffrey Deaver's quadriplegic detective. | |
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Father Brown: In "The Daughters of Jerusalem", Father Brown is laid up with a broken leg. He solves a series of murders from his bedroom with Mrs McCarthy, Lady Felecia and Sid doing his legwork for him. | |
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In The Roman Mysteries, Kid Detective Flavia solves several mysteries this way in some of the short stories, though in the regular novels she generally investigates mysteries on the scene. | |
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At the end of A Haunting in Venice, Hercule Poirot is able to solve a client's case of his family's supposed "haunted" state that has killed his parents and brother, based on the client's description of the facts - the murderer is the family's doctor, who stands to inherit the family fortune if everyone dies. | |
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In The Clocks, Poirot is retired and does not partake in the actual investigation. Instead, his friend Colin gave him his written account of the case, and the interrogation that has occurred. Poirot used this account to solve the mystery without having to set foot on the crime scene or even saying a single word to any of the suspects. | |
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Kyouko Kirigiri in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc solves the bulk of the third case after hearing about it once, in which she'd mysteriously disappeared for the entire incident. She looked like she was going to pull off the same in the fifth trial, but that was a Hopeless Boss Fight in which none of the students had the information necessary to make it solvable. In Kyouko's tie-in novel, Danganronpa Kirigiri, she hears about one such detective who has a reputation for this, and notes that he's fairly reckless. Yui Samidare, Kyouko's detective partner, chides her and says she should respect her superiors in the field. |
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There are people out in the world who have gotten so experienced with fixing cars that they can diagnose mechanical issues based on the make/model, brief description of the symptoms, and a short video with sound. Car Talk, for example, made a long-running radio show out of this - hosts Ray and Tom Magliozzi could diagnose car troubles from the descriptions their callers provided. | |
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Death Note: L has been in hiding his entire career, and communicates via phone, computer and his intermediary Watari, emerging only on special occasions for particularly complex crimes or particularly helpful assistants. | |
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Death in Paradise: In "An Unhelpful Aid", DI Poole is able to solve a murder while lying delirious in his sickbed, being fed information by Dwayne and Fidel. | |
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Monk: Adrian solves a hit and run by reading a newspaper. Then he solves a murder in France that was reported in the same newspaper and phones the French police department about his revelation. In "Mr. Monk Stays in Bed" he connects a judge-murder the police are trying to solve with a pizza-guy-murder Natalie is digging into while sick in bed with a cold and trying to ignore both Natalie and Stottlemeyer. In direct parallel with Sherlock Holmes, we have Adrian's much smarter brother Ambrose, who never leaves his house. Unlike Mycroft's laziness, Ambrose is severely agoraphobic. In Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse: Monk solves almost a dozen open cases just by glancing at the files on Disher's desk. |
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Case Closed: By using his voice changer, Conan has had "Shinichi" (i.e. himself) solve cases over long distances; his father has also solved cases by reading/watching the news, and when his mother repeated his deductions on TV (without divulging where she got the information), she was the one given credit when the cases eventually broke the way she "predicted". | |
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Parodied in The Areas of My Expertise with a detective who never leaves his bathtub. | |
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In Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse: Monk solves almost a dozen open cases just by glancing at the files on Disher's desk. | |
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Encyclopedia Brown sometimes, especially when solving cases for his father over dinner; Chief Brown relates everything he has on the case,note which might not have broken regulations back in the 1960s when the first books were published, but probably would today and Encyclopedia comes up with the solution before dessert. In a couple cases, Encyclopedia eats slowly to buy himself time to figure out the case. | |
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R.O.T.O.R.. 75% of Detective Coldyron's scenes involve him being on the phone with another character. Often, after he hangs up on one character, he goes ahead and dials another immediately. | |
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Arkady Balagan in Endgame suffers from agoraphobia, and refuses to leave his hotel. So he has Sam, and various hotel staff members, do his legwork for him. | |
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Victorique from Gosick isn't allowed to leave the Academy until later in the story, so she often solves crimes based on descriptions of the circumstances given to her by witnesses. | |
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Kazahaya Kyoko from the Japanese drama Keishichou Nasi Goreng-ka despises legwork and solves cases from crime scene recordings and news reports. Averted in her cameo on Cabasuka Gakuen. | |
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J.L. "Fatman" McCabe of Jake and the Fatman would send investigator Jake Styles out to do his legwork for him. (He was played by William Conrad, who has also played Nero Wolfe on TV.) | |
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Hercule Poirot is a psychological detective who doesn't bother with searching for physical evidences and running around looking for clues. Occasionally, he would use only the testimonies and written eyewitness accounts of the case to reconstruct the whole truth behind it In Three Act Tragedy, Poirot comes in late in the story, and by the time he becomes involved, most of the bulk investigation has been completed by the Amateur Sleuths. Poirot would remain in the background throughout the entire case, while the other three reported the results of their investigations to him. In The Clocks, Poirot is retired and does not partake in the actual investigation. Instead, his friend Colin gave him his written account of the case, and the interrogation that has occurred. Poirot used this account to solve the mystery without having to set foot on the crime scene or even saying a single word to any of the suspects. Poirot had once solved a crime without leaving his room for a bet. No phone was involved though, he just asked for police reports (and used his friend Hastings to run errands). On another occasion he was in bed with flu, and contacted Hastings at the scene via telegram. |
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Criminal Minds: The show makes frequent references to the team consulting on cases. They receive the case information, crime scene photos and such, and put together a profile based on that without ever leaving Quantico (which is more in line with the real life BAU). Though in this case, they don't tend to actually find the perpetrator themselves; they just point the local authorities in the right direction. Since that's not very interesting to watch, the series focuses on the many cases where they actually go out into the field and take an active part in the investigation. In one episode, Blake and Reid are able to solve a decades-old rape case just by reading through the victim's statement. Basically, she mixed over-selling and under-selling the experience and mentions that he "started to" take her clothes off without mentioning him finishing it, leading them to realize that she was lying about the whole thing. (Because a traumatized teenage girl who's afraid of incriminating her powerful boyfriend would never be in a confused emotional state when talking to the police immediately after it happened....) |
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The Old Man in the Corner stories by the Baroness Orczy, creator of The Scarlet Pimpernel. A classic armchair detective, the Old Man relies mostly upon sensationalistic "penny dreadful" newspaper accounts, with the occasional courtroom visit. He narrates all this information, while tying complicated knots in a piece of string, to a female Journalist who frequents the same tea-shop (the ABC Teashop on the corner of Norfolk Street and the Strand). They enjoy an antagonistic relationship, as the Journalist attempts to cut the Old Man's ego down to size and the Old Man trumps her every time. | |
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Lester Leith reads the newspapers, looking for clues about high-profile crimes that he can solve in order to steal the loot. In "Cold Clews," Leith mocks how the police can't solve the crimes with the same facts that he has. His valet (an undercover cop) argues that Leith can pick and choose which cases he takes while the police have to take everything that comes their way without delay and handle loads of cases at once. Leith reluctantly concedes the point, only to be given a chance to solve a case that he hasn't read about in the papers, which he successfully does | |
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In an episode of Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, Sen was able to solve the mystery via the others describing the room they were in even though he was miles away (and in the villain's Death Trap.) | |
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The Bone Collector: Quadriplegic forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme uses police officer Amelia Donaghy as his eyes and ears to catch a serial killer. | |
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Sherlock Holmes: Mycroft Holmes, though even more gifted than his brother in observation and deduction, "has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble of proving himself right." Also Sherlock's primary MO for the majority of his 'Consulting Detective' commissions: the reader generally only hears about the ones interesting enough for him to bestir himself, but many stories open with Holmes ranting about how the lack of decent crime has once again reduced him to pathetic challenges he can resolve from his armchair. |
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Patrick Jane of The Mentalist once spent most of an episode in prison and still solved the case. One memorable trick: knowing Rigsby was on his way to interview a suspect, Jane phoned the suspect using Rigsby's name and insulted him, provoking the suspect to attack Rigsby and get himself arrested... and put in the same prison as Jane, who could then talk to him in person. | |
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An extreme case in Quincy, M.E. where not only was our hero in a hospital bed but a coma. Done by his friends asking themselves "what would Quincy do?", with some of their answers verging on telepathy. | |
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In the manga for Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth, Police Chief Chase Clink is known as the "Armchair Detective" after catching the man responsible for bombing the Giant Christmas Tree without even leaving his office. | |
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