Who is Tom Selleck - Actor

Magnum, P.I. is an American television series starring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a private investigator living on Oahu, Hawaii. The series ran from 1980 to 1988 in first-run broadcast on the American CBS television network.

According to the Nielsen Ratings, Magnum, P.I. consistently ranked in the top twenty U.S. television programs during the first five years that the series was originally telecast in the United States.Entry for Magnum, P.I from the Museum of Broadcast Communications website Originally appearing in a prime time American network timeslot of 8 p.m. Eastern on Thursdays, Magnum, P.I. was one of the highest-rated shows on U.S. television.

The Jesse Stone novels are a series of detective novels written by Robert B. Parker, featuring his fictional creation Jesse Stone. They are among his most recent works, and the first series in which the novelist uses the third-person narrative. There are eight books to date beginning with Night Passage (1997) continuing through Night and Day (2009).

The Jesse Stone character starts out at about thirty-five years old. A former minor league baseball shortstop, who injures his throwing arm, he was raised in Arizona and California.Robert P. Parker interview - Penguin Group (Canada)] Having been dumped by his beautiful wife (actress Jennifer Stone), he was sacked from his job as a homicide detective for the LAPD Robbery-Homicide Division because of a drinking problem.Parker, Robert (2006). Blue Screen. New York, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. ISBN 0399153519 Showing up drunk to an interview for a job as police chief for a small town of Paradise, Massachusetts (loosely based on the real town of Marblehead, Massachusetts), he is inexplicably hired. He quickly notices that the town is rife with big league-crimes ? the mob, white supremacists, wildly errant wives and a triple homicide. Stone knows this job will be more difficult than he anticipated.

The character of Jesse Stone, a deeply troubled man, was a departure for the author. Parker, comparing Stone to Spenser, the protagonist of his other series, said, "Jesse is a much more damaged individual who is coming to terms with himself as he goes along,..."