>>>I've seen some of the German one's but i prefer UK 'crimi's' b.y a rather large margin.
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>>I've seen a few UK ones, but they tend to be too longthreaded (langdradig) for my taste. Inspector morse ...

>Long-winded - totally agree. Spend less time in the pub and more time showing some detection!

>>and murder she wrote (or is this american?) are the one I can come up with. The latter irritates me to the bone though because it is totally unrealistic (I know they all are far from reality, but this one really stands out).
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>Definaitely American and again, I agree. Who would invite Jessica anywhere, cos everywhere she goes there's a murder; she's like a harbinger of doom. Same goes for all of Miss Marples neices & nephews inviting her to their village for a holiday. Someone gets killed.

I tend to think, jessica killed them herselve and really finds a very clever and intelligent way to blame someone else :)

Walter,