Death in Paradise (TV series)

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Death in Paradise Series 1 cover Country UK France Language English Channel BBC Creator Robert Thorogood Genre Detective Drama Broadcast 2011- No. of Seasons 12 No. of Episodes 97 Main Cast Character Actor Detective Inspector Richard Poole Ben Miller Detective Inspector Humphrey Goodman (2014-2017) Kris Marshall Detective Inspector Jack Mooney Ardal O'Hanlon Detective Inspector Neville Parker Ralf Little Detective Sergeant Camille Bordey Sara Martins Officer Dwayne Meyers Danny John-Jules Sergeant Fidel Best Gary Carr Detective Sergeant Florence Cassell Josephine Jobert Commissioner Selwyn Patterson Don Warrington

This article is about the television series. For the film, see Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise.

Death in Paradise is a BBC detective drama series aired since January 2011. The show is set on the small fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie, where a power-sharing agreement between the British and French governments leads to a British Detective Inspector being appointed to run the police station in the island's capital of Honore. The show takes on a more light-hearted tone compared to typical gritty BBC detective dramas, using the "locked room" format of classic murder mystery detective stories. It is aired at the beginning of the year so as to help relieve the January blues.

The following weapons were used in the television series Death in Paradise (TV series):

Handguns

Walther PPK

In the pilot episode, "Arriving in Paradise" (S01E01) Police Inspector Charlie Hulme (Hugo Speer) is found shot to death with a Walther PPK inside a house's panic room. Later his replacement, Inspector Richard Poole (Ben Miller) test-fires the same pistol inside the panic room to see whether the shot could have been heard outside.

Later, in "The Complex Murder" (S05E01), the murder victim is shot to death with a suppressed PPK, but described in .22 caliber.

Walther PPK stainless - .380 ACP

SIG-Sauer P226

In "Missing A Body?" (S01E04), Detective Sergeant Camille Bordey (Sara Martins) fires a SIG-Sauer P226 at a coconut on a stand to test whether a suspected murderer could make a successful head shot from a certain distance.

West German SIG-Sauer P226 - 9x19mm. This is a real movie gun and has appeared in several motion pictures.

DS Bordey with the P226 in the Series 1 intro.

SIG-Sauer P228

In S12E04, the Saint Marie officers discover a SIG-Sauer P228 that had been used in a gangland shooting on Guadalupe.

SIG-Sauer P228 - 9x19mm.

Marlon with the P228.

DI Neville Parker holding the bag with the P228 inside.

Flintlock Pistol

In "A Deadly Curse" (S01E04), a treasure hunter is shot at night with an antique Flintlock pistol.

Glock 17

In "Political Suicide" (S03E05), a crate of illegal guns is opened on a boat, including at least two Glock 17s.

3rd Generation Glock 17 - 9x19mm. Note the finger grooves, thumb reliefs, and accessory rail on the frame, which differentiate it from the older model.

Smith & Wesson Model 29

In "Political Suicide" (S03E05), government minister Jacob Doran (Simon Shepherd) is found shot after an apparent suicide with a Smith & Wesson Model 29 revolver near his hand.

Rifles

AK-47

In "Political Suicide" (S03E05), a crate of illegal guns is opened on a boat, including several AK-47s. In S12E02, army veteran Charlie Banks has illegally imported a number of AK-47s, which he has stashed in a crate.

Type 1 AK-47 with slab sided magazine - 7.62x39mm

Officer Marlon Pryce holding one of the illegal AK-47s in S12E02.