Wilsberg

Georg Wilsberg, a sturdy man in his late fifties, runs a bookshop for antiquarian books[1] in the city of Münster, and works on a sideline as a private detective.

Wilsberg has a business card which gives away his side job, so if there are any doubts concerning the circumstances of the death, the relatives are inclined to employ him.

Other customers appreciate the chance to hire a private detective discreetly by pretending they are just looking for rare books when they visit him.

In his investigations, he does not care much about legal regulations, so he frequently burgles private homes in search of evidence and gets arrested.

Other characters are: Readers of the novels recognise many of the plots and locations in the television series; however, some adaptation was needed in order to make the material easily intelligible to a national audience and to those who had not read the books.