The Detective of Muiella

Description

Kate Smith enjoys her quiet life as a maid and has no interest in getting married. Her resolve only deepens as she watches her peers swoon over the moody manservant, Ian. Whether it's fate or bad luck, Kate quickly finds herself in a series of compromising encounters with him. One day another maid goes missing and the mystical happenings that follow only intensify her suspicions about Ian. As the expert detective Jade Killian comes into town, can he help her uncover the truth? (Tapas)

Original Novel

Original Webtoon:
KakaoPage, Daum

Official Translation:
English, S.Chinese, French, Indonesian, Japanese, Thai

Type

Manhwa

Related Series

N/A

Associated Names

El detective de Muiella

L'enquêteur de Muiella

Mueller no Sousakan

Mueller's Investigator

Mwiellaui Susagwan

The Investigator of Mueller

The Investigator of Muiella

Следователь Муэллы

Слідчий Муелли

นักสืบแห่งมิวเอลล่า

ミュエラの捜査官

心动搜查官

慕艾拉的调查官

穆艾拉的調查官

뮈엘라의 수사관

Groups Scanlating

Imperfect Comic

Kate's heart

purpleheartclub

Latest Release(s)

c.163 by Imperfect Comic 4 years ago

c.162 by Imperfect Comic 4 years ago

c.161 by Imperfect Comic 4 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

162 Chapters + 1 Side Story (Complete)

S1: 30 Chapters (1~30)
S2: 56 Chapters (31~86)
S3: 53 Chapters (87~130)
S4: 32 Chapters (131~162)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

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User Rating

Average: 7.2 / 10.0 (109 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7 / 10.0

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Last Updated

May 15th, 2025 2:25am PDT - 1 week ago

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Genre

Drama Fantasy Mystery Romance Shoujo
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Recommendations

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Author(s)

Kiarne

Artist(s)

Ssol

Year

2017

Original Publisher

Daum

DreamToon

Kakaopage

Serialized In (magazine)

KakaoPage (Kakao)

Kakao Webtoon (Daum)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Tapas

Tappytoon (130 Chapters; Expired)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #709

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Monthly Pos #1442 (No change)

3 Month Pos #3645 (No change)

6 Month Pos #5250 (No change)

Year Pos #5853

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List Stats

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On 163 wish lists

On 149 completed lists

On 41 unfinished lists

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A nice change of pace - some things could be different

by teranell
4 months ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

I thought it was a nice change of pace and particularly liked the beginning. I liked that the male lead was a oblivious/naive/charmless. You wonder why he was scary, i wish this interpretation of him was more consistent. He turns more sappy and puppy-like in the end when I think it would have been more fun if he kept his relative denseness for comedy purposes. The female lead doesn't get hugely over powered but gets too talented/overpowered towards the end. I do think that the story had a bit of an inconsistent theme and there are a few plot holes.

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Over-rated FL

by Leonalarraine
1 year ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

FL is an idiot she is gullible and naïve lets be honest she's not that great

P.S. What's going on with they're ears I thought 💭 Ian was going to turn out to be an half elf at some point

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Too long, very uneven, with some potential but overall meh

by StellaStar1
2 years ago

Rating: 4.0 / 10.0

I have been struggling with this manhwa for almost five months. And while it is a long one, with over 160 chapters, it was a chore to actually go troughs it. Of course, other things tickled my fancy so it's not only the quality of the manhwa that propelled me to read it for such a long time.. but overall, this was meh.
Where to start. I don't feel like wasting too much time on this one, so I'll try to be brief. This isn't a detective novel in the slightest. There is a central mystery and some detective elements, but so little and inconsequential. This is a shojo cleverly masked in a semi-mystery-fantasy surroundings. As I noted, there are some good elements here. The whole background of the story, with the witches, mana drainers, the secret magical items, is actually pretty solid and could have been made into an okay soft fantasy. But sadly, things shift uncontrollably from a boring murder mystery, to a slice of life, to a romance novel, to a female empowerment, to some totally random supporting characters that just appear and dissapear... Yep, I found this story flow pretty much terrible and the number of characters to inflated for no reason. We even have a few promising chars that just dissapear for no reason (looking at you, Rosemary).

But the ML and FL are... Hard to really gauge. Kate had some major awesome moments in the beginning, when she was just an inquisitive maid that looked after herself very well. IMHO, the story actually ruins her character by making her a secret heiress and whatnot. She becomes the typical boring shojo heroine, pure as snow and almost without a bad toughts in herself (Jeffery Hogan gets her on the edge of her seat, but otherwise she's perfect). The ML is sooooo boring. I understand that he's a type of a tsundere, but he's neither sexy, smoldering, likable or anything. He just looks good, and acts like a total psychopath, with no human emotions whatever. While having such a character may not be necessarily bad, having him for a ML in what is basically a shojo manhwa ia MAJOS misstep.

And other things that irked me... Enoch Rainforrest suddenly appears and starts acting like a jerk right of the bat. The bad guys are such laughable caricatures it's almost sad. Duke Evans is underused, but he's actually a morally ambiguous man and a fabulous character but it's never shown properly. Josephine Court's character was ruined as you see she was written to fall under the wrong influence (trust me, it wasn't subtle at all). So many story threads simply go nowhere. Jade was cute and the other detectives were at least nice. The lore needed more work on, but is not features heavily enough as it is. The world-building feels too thin mostly because of that.

Overall, this was a miss IMHO. It's not terrible, and the art is well made, but all the things of substance were lacking. Skip unless you are a completist.

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Mysteries aren't really solved

by ghost_kun
3 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

For being titled "Detective", not much actual detective work is shown. Things happen in such a way that they'll have a conclusion to their mystery, but no actual clue-searching seems to happen. Or they happen off-screen.

It's two completely different stories being told at once. FL's maid story and ML's detective story. But since we're going from the FL biased POV and ML is so stoic...ML's detective story is pretty unnecessary.

At ch60, the story might gain some more coherency because ML and FL are now inhabiting the same space.

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Hoo this one is all over the place

by jingrl89
4 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

Characters = 4/10
Plot = 3/10
Art = 10/10

Firstly the ML is a psychopath; that’s true. He mellows out a bit later on, but mostly he’s kind of like a pet dog? But like the kind that pretty much ignores his surroundings and could care less about his cases unless it means pleasing the FL (aka his owner).

Like seriousllllyyyyy how can you call yourselves detectives when pretty much MORE people die when you’re ~~detecting~~? The FL becomes dumber than bricks when it’s convenient to the plot. The ML only does his job when he wants to, and then the evil people reveal themselves when they inevitably threaten the FL.

This story is just... so chaotic. I like the servant arc because at least the plot was coherent. Then suddenly it became about highschool drama, elves, witches, vampires, magic, child slavery, business, and like whaaatttt is even happening.

I will say this, the ML and FL make a great couple. They are so sweet together. The side characters also have a slightly sweet relationship, but the star is honestly just our ML & FL. There is no detective-ing because everything that happens is so straightforward. Straightforwardly chaotic. It’s not boring at least? I’m really confused by the story but still entertained. The ending is terribly rushed too. I don’t understand who’s a Hogan and who’s nobility. Like why was that even an issue? And

the witch needs to stay dead, period. Dying and coming back 3 times is not cute

Go into this without expecting much and just go with it. Don’t think too hard. I think it is much more enjoyable that way.

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Blah ML

by yonaol
4 years ago

Rating: N/A

Didn't read very far in at all, only up to chapter 8. Just not into the ML, as others have said - he's just kinda boring. Seems really flat and he does nothing to interact with the FL. It's very slow to start, so I'll be dropping it for now.

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more impressive

by NationsFather
4 years ago

Rating: N/A

Hey, I was enjoying this at first, but then when you get a look inside the ML's head I kinda stopped enjoying it. He seems like a total sociopath, at one point he doesn't understand why the FL is upset at the prospect of seeing a child brutally murdered in front of her like in The Detective of Muiella 1st kiss manga, he thinks it shouldn't bother her because she she doesn't know the child! I just can't bring myself to read a series when I just want the FL to get as far away as possible from the ML and it's obviously not going to happen.

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You can't give your manhwa the title 'Detective' and hopes that romance is what makes it float

by Zurel
5 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

The romance, albeit being a slow burn one, is one of the few good points of the story. But while I love the FL, I don't really like the ML and I don't know why he has such a low EQ. Is he a psychopath? Or is he supposed to be a reenactment of Sherlock, if Sherlock is bland, passive, and uninspiring?

The biggest problem with this manhwa however, is it's supposed to be a mystery/detective story. But the mysteries are boring, they don't leave you with the sense of suspense and because of the slow pace they also give you no thrill. The inclusion of supernatural elements and/or magic in the mysteries doesn't add to making them interesting - if anything it's poorly done, a bad mix like water and oil. And the ML is supposed to be this exceptional detective who notices things others don't, but he is exceptional only because the rest of the police force is stupid and can't see a clue even if it smacks them across their faces.

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Problems with ML

by Tattletale
5 years ago

Rating: N/A

I was enjoying this at first, but then when you get a look inside the ML's head I kinda stopped enjoying it.

He seems like a total sociopath, at one point he doesn't understand why the FL is upset at the prospect of seeing a child brutally murdered in front of her, he thinks it shouldn't bother her because she she doesn't know the child!

I just can't bring myself to read a series when I just want the FL to get as far away as possible from the ML and it's obviously not going to happen.

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Exciting

by theabbster1
6 years ago

Rating: N/A

This is a mysterious romance webtoon and in many moments it gives me the creeeps! I wanna know what’s going on but I hope it doesn’t turn into a Days Of Hana type of tragedy. I really like the leads though!

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