History Series / Sleuth101

''Sleuth 101'' was an Australian mystery game show which aired on Creator/TheABC for one series of eight episodes in 2010. Hosted by Cal Wilson, each episode revolved around a murder mystery that must be investigated by a celebrity guest detective, usually a comedian, with varying degrees of success.

* CannotTellAJoke: Bill Quinn, the victim in "Family Assorted", messes up reading a Christmas cracker joke to the family and laughs at it even though his mangled version doesn't make sense. Specifically, he asks "What's "Film/{{ET}}" stand for?" instead of "What's "ET" short for?" (the answer being "Because he's got little legs.")

-->'''Cal''': Will the murderer of Kyle Bowman please reveal themselves? But not in a weird way.

* {{Corpsing}}: Some of the detectives got the suspects to break character. Colin Lane's interrogation of Rebecca stands out.

* ConvictionByContradiction: A few of the clues in "Still Life": [[spoiler:The killer is impersonating a former nun (who was the actual victim), but doesn't know her Bible very well. She gives "God helps those who help themselves," as a Bible quote (which the show attributes to UsefulNotes/BenjaminFranklin), and when Detective Hamish Blake asks her about her favourite commandment, she answers with TheGoldenRule. She's also shown crossing herself with her left hand when the victim's body is discovered.]] Hamish doesn't pick up on any of this.

* HurricaneOfEuphemisms: In "Delete Cache", Claire asks Torben about his comment that "Cache would be taken care of", and he admits that he was planning to fire him that week. "He was gonna be... eighty sixed. he was gonna be fired. I was gonna fire him. I was gonna let him go. i was gonna put him out to pasture. I was gonna show him the keys to the door. I was gonna give him his pink slip. I was gonna show him the exit." [[OverlyLongGag He interrupts Claire twice during this]].

* AssholeVictim: Nearly all of the victims to some extent. Kyle Bowman in "Murder in A Sharp" especially stands out: he was cheating on his wife Abby with Music/LilyAllen (and had cheated on two previous wives with his PA before going on to marry them as well), and he was going to screw over his longtime bandmate Barry. [[spoiler:However, the death itself turns out to have been an accident, resulting from his bodyguard pushing him over during a relatively minor argument.]] Subverted in "Still Life", in which [[spoiler:the victim is mistaken for a wanted criminal, who was the actual killer]].

* CluelessDetective: Adam Richards, Julia Morris and Hamish Blake each failed to solve their cases, though in Julia's case the killer had done a lot to establish an alibi. Most of the successful detectives weren't much better, such as Dave O'Neill and Frank Woodley resorting to [[{{Metagame}} Metagaming]]. Claire Hooper perhaps subverted this the most, doing a good job of putting together the motive and the method of the murder.

* GlassesPull: When Colin Lane lists the TV detectives he intends to emulate, he mentions David Caruso in '"Series/CSIMiami'' just because he wants to do this a lot. "I brought those glasses in specially, for that joke, and I wish I hadn't have bothered."

* DeadlyAffair:

* BasementDweller: Michelle Quinn in "Family Assorted", still living at home at the age of 39. To her credit, she seems to do more than her fair share of the cleaning

-->'''Cal''': Will the murderer of Kyle Bowman please reveal themselves? But not in a weird way.
* YourCheatingHeart:
** In "Murder in A Sharp", Kyle Bowman has a long history of this.
** In "Delete Cache", the victim was cheating on his girlfriend with another character in ''Sirius Nine'', apparently unaware that her player was his workmate.
** In "Inside Chef", Stacy Henshaw had cheated on her husband with Ramsay [[spoiler:and killed him to keep it quiet]].
** In "Performance Enhancing Death," Dan Kinsman was having an affair with a teammate's girlfriend. [[spoiler:The teammate killed him.]]

* DeadlineNews: Rachel Timms in "Late and Live", strangled with a microphone cable while reading the news.

* CluelessDetective: Adam Richards, Julia Morris and Hamish Blake each failed to solve their cases, though in Julia's case the killer had done a lot to establish an alibi. Most of the successful detectives weren't much better, such as Dave O'Neill and Frank Woodley resorting to {{Metagaming}}. Claire Hooper perhaps subverted this the most, doing a good job of putting together the motive and the method of the murder.

* AssholeVictim: Nearly all of the victims to some extent. Kyle Bowman in "Murder in A Sharp" especially stands out: he was cheating on his wife Abby with Creator/LilyAllen (and had cheated on two previous wives with his PA before going on to marry them as well), and he was going to screw over his longtime bandmate Barry. [[spoiler:However, the death itself turns out to have been an accident, resulting from his bodyguard pushing him over during a relatively minor argument.]] Subverted in "Still Life", in which [[spoiler:the victim is mistaken for a wanted criminal, who was the actual killer]].

* CluelessDetective: Adam Richards, Julia Morris and Hamish Blake each failed to solve their cases, though in Julia's case the killer had done a lot to establish an alibi. Most of the successful detectives weren't much better. Claire Hooper perhaps subverted this the most, doing a good job of putting together the motive and the method of the murder.

* HurricaneOfEuphemisms: In "Delete Cache", Claire asks Torben about his comment that "Cache would be taken care of", and he admits that he was planning to fire him that week. "He was gonna be... eighty sixed. he was gonna be fired. I was gonna fire him. I was gonna let him go. i was gonna put him out to pasture. I was gonna show him the keys to the door. I was gonna give him his pink slip. I was gonna show him the exit." He interrupts Claire twice during this.

* StalkerWithACrush: In "Late and Love", Nigel for Rachel, which leads Detective Julia Morris to accuse him of the murder. [[spoiler:She's wrong.]]

* YourCheatingheart:

* AssholeVictim: Nearly all of the victims to some extent. Kyle Bowman in "Murder in A Sharp" especially stands out: he was cheating on his wife Abby with Creator/LilyAllen (and had cheated on two previous wives with his PA before going on to marry them as well), and he was going to screw over his longtime bandmate Barry. Subverted in "Still Life", in which [[spoiler:the victim is mistaken for a wanted criminal, who was the actual killer]].

* CluelessDetective: Adam Richards, Julia Morris and Hamish Blake each failed to solve their cases, though in Julia's case the killer had done a lot to establish an alibi. Most of the successful detectives weren't much better.

* CluelessDetective: Adam Richards, Julia Morris and Hamish Blake each failed to solve their cases. Most of the others weren't much better.

* BaitAndSwitchComparison: In "Delete Cache", when a a user-created character from the MMORPG ''Sirius Nine'' makes a magazine's "Top 10 Sexiest Women in the World" list, between Creator/MeganFox and Creator/ParisHilton.

* ConvictionByContradiction: A few of the clues in "Still Life": [[spoiler:The killer is impersonating a former nun (who was the actual victim), but doesn't know her Bible very well. She gives "God helps those who help themselves," as a Bible quote (which the show attributes to UsefulNotes/BenjaminFranklin), and when when Detective Hamish Blake asks her about her favourite commandment, she answers with TheGoldenRule. She's also shown crossing herself with her left hand when the victim's body is discovered.]] Hamish doesn't pick up on any of this.

* ConvictionByContradiction: One of the clues in "Still Life": [[spoiler:When Hamish Blake asks former nun Bea O'Malley about her favourite commandment, she answers with TheGoldenRule.]] Hamish doesn't pick up on it.

* BasementDweller: Michelle Quinn in "Family Assor Barry ted", still living at home at the age of 39. To her credit, she seems to do more than her fair share of the cleaning

* {{Metaphorgotten)):
** From Frank Woodley in "Murder in A Sharp", in his interrogation of Barry.

* AssholeVictim: Nearly all of the victims to some extent. Kyle Bowman in "Murder in A Sharp" especially stands out: he was cheating on his wife Abby with Creator/LilyAllen (and had cheated on two previous wives with his PA before going on to marry them as well), and he was going to screw over his longtime bandmate Barry.