Inspector Bucket
Inspector Bucket is the first detective.
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Using logic, reason and the unusual techniques of his colleague , he’s on the hunt for ’s killer - and there’s no crime he can’t solve.
About Stephen Rea
Stephen Rea has starred in high-profile films such as V for Vendetta, Michael Collins, Interview with the Vampire and Breakfast on Pluto. He received an Oscar nomination for his performance in The Crying Game.
He also appeared in 2014's widely acclaimed Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ drama , a role for which he took home the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor. Stephen was nominated for that same award in 2011 for
Stephen's most noted theatre credit includes the TONY-nominated role in Someone Who'll Watch Over Me.
Stephen Rea will appear as Prince Vassily in in January 2016.
Charles Dickens's Inspector Bucket
Dickens’s Inspector Bucket is a moral centre of Bleak House. Shrewd, insightful and caring with a dedication to justice.
Dickens describes Bucket’s mode of detection:
"Mr. Bucket and his fat forefinger are much in consultation together under existing circumstances. When Mr. Bucket has a matter of this pressing interest under his consideration, the fat forefinger seems to rise, to the dignity of a familiar demon. He puts it to his ears, and it whispers information; he puts it to his lips, and it enjoins him to secrecy; he rubs it over his nose, and it sharpens his scent;he shakes it before a guilty man, and it charms him to hisdestruction. The Augurs of the Detective Temple invariably predict that when Mr. Bucket and that finger are in much conference, a terrible avenger will be heard of before long.
Otherwise mildly studious in his observation of human nature, on thewhole a benignant philosopher not disposed to be severe upon the follies of mankind, Mr. Bucket pervades a vast number of houses and strolls about an infinity of streets, to outward appearance rather languishing for want of an object. He is in the friendliest condition towards his species and will drink with most of them. He is free with his money, affable in his manners, innocent in his conversation--but through the placid stream of his life there glides an under-current of forefinger."
Charles Dickens, Bleak House, chapter 53.
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