Ann Cleeves Ann Cleeves Ann Cleeves (born 1954) is an English crime-writer. In 2006 she won the inaugural Duncan Lawrie Dagger, the richest crime-writing prize in the world, for her novel "Raven Black". Cleeves studied English at Sussex University but dropped out. She then took up various jobs including cook, auxiliary coastguard, probation officer, library outreach worker and child care officer. She lives in Whitley Bay, and is widowed with two daughters. The Vera Stanhope novels have been dramatized as the TV detective series "Vera" and the Jimmy Perez novels as the series "Shetland". In 2014 Cleeves was awarded an Honorary Doctorate
The Detectives (1959 TV series) the series was canceled in 1962. The series was produced for Four Star by Levy-Gardner-Laven Productions, which produced other successful Four Star series, such as "The Rifleman", and "The Big Valley". Future "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry was a contributing writer to the series . Dell Comics issued a comic book rendition of Robert Taylor's ""The Detectives"" during the series run . A few years after "The Detectives" ended, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor's ex-wife, had "her" very own successful series also produced by Four Star/Levy-Gardner-Laven Productions, "The Big Valley", which also aired on ABC. Several cast members on "The Detectives"