Armchair detective Armchair detective An armchair detective is a fictional investigator who does not personally visit a crime scene or interview witnesses; instead, he or she either reads the story of the crime in a newspaper or has it recounted by another person. As the armchair detective never sees any of the investigation, the reader can attempt to solve the mystery on the same terms as the detective. The phrase possibly originates in a Sherlock Holmes story from 1893, "The Greek Interpreter", in which Holmes says of his brother Mycroft, "If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame is a 2010 Chinese-Hong Kong action-adventure mystery film directed and produced by Tsui Hark. The film tells a fictional story featuring Di Renjie (Andy Lau), one of the most celebrated officials of the Tang Dynasty, who is tasked by the Empress Wu Zetian (Carina Lau) to solve a series of inexplicable murders in which victims suddenly burst into flames. Principal photography for "Detective Dee" began in May 2009; the film was shot at Hengdian World Studios in Zhejiang, China. It features art