In the BritBox crime thriller “Code of Silence,” a deaf woman working in the canteen at a police station in Canterbury, England, is recruited by detectives when they need someone to read lips on ...

Last month, PBS debuted a British police drama called Patience, about an autistic police records clerk helping a detective with cases because of the way she looks at evidence and other aspects of a ...

Whether it's a humorous procedural or a dark and dreary drama, detective fiction offers a wealth of familiar scenarios. Once we look past the classic archetypes, like the egotistical agents who also ...