E: 08/02 10pm win 11 crime books email

bluesooz

http://www.crimefictionlover.com/2015/02/quiz-name-that-uk-crime-show-tune/

NB Please do not add a clickable email link - they did not provide one on their page, so it wouldn't be right to put one here

This weekend we have a musical treat for lovers of British crime fiction, and a chance to win big thanks to Penguin Books.

First of all, watch the YouTube video embedded above. Well, not so much watch as listen. Playing you will hear clips from the theme tunes to 10 popular UK crime shows from 1955 to the present day.

Note down your answers, and send them to us in an email at info [at] crimefictionlover [dot] com*. Entitle your email Name that UK crime show tune. Don’t forget to include your full name and address in the email so we can send you your prize if you win.

please thank posters below for answers :T

On Sunday 8 February 2015 at 10pm we’ll go through all the emails and choose a winner from all the entries that have the most correct answers.



The Prize
We’ve got an unbelievably good prize for the winner. It’s a collection of 11 specially printed proof copies of books from Pengiun’s crime stable. These are limited edition, collectable proofs, each designed in the old fashioned Penguin style with the green spine and plain typographic cover. The titles include:

The Hangman’s Song by James Oswald
The Boy That Never Was by Karen Perry
Eeny Meeny by MJ Arlidge
Thursday’s Children by Nicci French
After the Silence by Jake Woodhouse
If I Should Die by Matthew Frank
Runner by Patrick Lee
Fall from Grace by Tim Weaver
Dead Men’s Bones by James Oswald
The Devil’s Workshop by Alex Grecian
Pop Goes the Weasel by MJ Arlidge

One-Eye

Thanks to everyone below for their efforts.

1. Dixon of Dock Green
2. Taggart
3. Waking The Dead
4. The Bill
5. Morse
6. New Tricks
7. The Sweeney
8. Foyle's War
9. Sherlock Holmes
10. Midsomer Murders

worriedindebt

One-Eye wrote: »

1. Dixon of Dock Green
2. Taggart
3.
4.
5.
6. New Tricks
7. The Sweeney
8.
9.
10.

Adding a few more here for you
1. Dixon of Dock Green
2. Taggart
3.
4. The Bill
5. Morse
6. New Tricks
7. The Sweeney
8. Foyles War
9.
10. Midsomer Murders

Numbers 3 & 9 have me stumped.. Three is very eighties, and nine seems like a period crime show..

WeAreGhosts

Adding one ...

1. Dixon of Dock Green
2. Taggart
3. Waking The Dead
4. The Bill
5. Morse
6. New Tricks
7. The Sweeney
8. Foyles War
9.
10. Midsomer Murders

[STRIKE]am searching for no. 9 ...[/STRIKE]

see below

Caly

I think its Sherlock Holmes (the old ones).

WeAreGhosts

Caly wrote: »

I think its Sherlock Holmes (the old ones).

Yes, I think it's Sherlock from 1954
http://www.televisiontunes.com/Sherlock_Holmes_-_1954.html
if someone could have a listen ^


1. Dixon of Dock Green
2. Taggart
3. Waking The Dead
4. The Bill
5. Morse
6. New Tricks
7. The Sweeney
8. Foyles War
9. Sherlock Holmes
10. Midsomer Murders

nursey71

Re: no.9 - the answer is still Sherlock Holmes, but the theme tune is the one from the Jeremy Brett era:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AoK2dqb1vs