As Endeavour fans will know ... As Strange takes over for Jakes, Oxford’s first female constable, Shirley Trewlove, takes Strange’s old position — a role she’s very well suited for.

Those stories, which ran between 1987 and 2000, cemented Endeavour Morse in our minds as a man who values his solitude almost as much as he prizes his ale and whiskey as author Colin Dexter ...

But it’s just self preservation. Fans of “Endeavour,” returning Sunday on PBS’s “Masterpiece,” are a particularly grumpy and vocal bunch. Review some other British crime drama?

Endeavour, the PBS Masterpiece detective drama that stars Shaun Evans and Roger Allam, will return for its ninth and final season June 18. Inspired by Inspector Morse, the spinoff set in the ...