Along with sleuths like Sherlock Holmes, Columbo, and Hercule Poirot, pop culture is full of detectives who aren't, technically, real detectives. Jessica Fletcher of Murder, She Wrote was a novelist who just happened to solve in the neighborhood of 250 murders. Father Brown was an exceptionally nosy small town priest who had a knack for sniffing out the truth. Encyclopedia Brown was a smug little narc who constantly ratted out his classmates. You don't need credentials or a badge to solve crimes.
I also became an unofficial detective by sitting behind the counter of a flower shop in 2022's Strange Horticulture. It didn't seem like a detective game at first: customers came into my botany shop with a request and it was my job to figure out what unusual plant they were looking for.
