Favourite TV detective?

he's got that battered about look which can be attractive in a man

I agree ...

Brunetti ones are on you tube but in German. I think some had subtitles.

Julien Baptiste, ooooh that voice!!!!

Ooh, yes. Forgot about Montalbano.

Inspector Frost.
And I don't know if anyone else watched this but Peter Davison in The Last Detective.
Very underated at the time, I thought

Hercule Poirot
Miss Marple
Agatha Raisin
Line Of Duty
Endeavour

Jack FROST

Another vote for Michael Kitchen (Foyle's War) who I feel is very watchable. Every nuance has a meaning.

More episodes, please!

Fabian of the Yard (who??)
Inspector Foyle
Inspector Wexford
Wallander, either of the two Swedish ones, NOT Kenneth Branagh

Morse, David Suchet, Michael Kitchen, Joan Hickson and Alum Armstrong in New Tricks.

Montalbano!

Michael Kitchen as Christopher Foyle in Foyle's War and Douglas Henshall as Jimmy Perez in Shetland .. oh and Mark Williams as Father Brown!

Cagney + Lacey!

Definitely Vera, Morse, Midsummer Murders and Colombo. Can't beat a bit of Colombo and then there's Frost of course

For me Inspector Montalbano, I can watch him over and over again as I completely forget the plots.

Kojak! "who loves ya baby?" ?

I really liked Inspector Lynley and was so disappointed when they decided to end the series unexpectedly.

Detective Stabler in Law and Order SVU.

Rebus
Vera
Dislike Stephen Tompkinson as Banks. Not my idea of Banks at all

Montalbano too for me! And Morse

Oooo - such a hard decision!

Andri - (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson/Trapped)
Vera - (Brenda Blethyn)
Strike - (Tom Burke)
Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis/Miss Fisher's Murder mysteries)
Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion/Castle)
Douglas Henshall & Alison O'Donnell (Jimmy Perez/Tosh - Shetland)

Aurelio Zen (Rufus Sewell) Only 3 films were made - very sad. The books are brilliant but sadly the author, Michael Dibdin died in 2007 so no more books.

Rebus, Endeavour, Vera, Sergeant Hathaway.

I didn't like Tompkinson as Banks either, wasn't as he was depicted in the books.
I did like the Lynley series, however the books became quite annoying at the end with the author's constant attempts at dialect.

Tom Burke as Cormoran Strike.

We love the DI Banks books but Stephen Tompkinson? Oh dear No!