The Detective Trio

The Detective Trio was a Shops Island-based trio of amateur private investigators made up of Detective Ice, Detective 'Stache, and Detective 'Nog. None of them had ever actually received any detective training, with their only knowledge coming from prior experience as agents in the Penguin Secret Agency and Elite Penguin Force and watching Ruby and the Ruby at best, owing to the Trio's short-lived run.

History
The Detective Trio was started in December 2012 by Chill, who decided to start being a detective to cure his boredom. Since he decided solving cases by himself would be boring, he asked Mario and Penquino to help him, and they both agreed since they didn't have much going on; Penquino had recently come off of house arrest, and although Mario was just elected as President of Shops Island, he didn't really feel like performing any of his duties. After giving themselves codenames at Mario's suggestion, they became Detectives Ice (Chill), 'Stache (Mario), and 'Nog (Penquino), and set off to solve some cases.

Detective Ice was too impatient to wait for clients to come to them, since he decided that waiting to solve cases would be boring. Instead, they intruded on other investigations that were already underway, either by the Shopper Intelligence Agency or other private investigators. This caused some conflict with the SIA, but since all three of them were friends with Director LMGT, in addition to Ice and 'Nog also being SIA agents, and not to mention the fact that 'Stache and Ice were also the sitting President and Vice President, no action was taken.

In the early months of 2013, the Detective Trio's activity began to fizzle out. Unbound by political obligations, 'Nog temporarily moved back to Club Penguin Island a few weeks after the Trio's founding. Ice and 'Stache continued to work on cases by themselves, with Snowstormer as "Detective Storm", who had previously worked with them once before, occasionally filling in as a third detective. Unfortunately, due to previous run-ins with the SIA, they had agreed not to interfere with anymore SIA investigations, severely limiting their opportunities for cases. Detective Ice eventually became desperate and started making up his own cases for them to solve, or trying to crack unsolved mysteries from across Antarctica that he found on the internet.

By the time of their vacation to Calada, the Detective Trio had mostly been left in the past by all of its members. Although it was unlikely they would've worked again, Mario's apparent death on their vacation ultimately sealed the Trio's fate.

Legacy
As the Chill Island Protection Force's investigation into the Fry Thief dragged on, Chill decided to do some investigative work of his own and became "Detective Ice" once again for the first time in years. However, now that he was a few years older and more self-aware, he realized how lousy his detective "skills" were in the first place and decided to leave it to the agency's more competent members.

Headquarters
The Detective Trio's headquarters was the "Secret Base of Detectivtry", which, according to Detective Ice, was a state of the art base containing all the latest and greatest equipment a detective could ever need. In reality, the base was just a closet in Chill's igloo, and the equipment it was stocked with were just some magnifying glasses and Detective Ice's EPF briefcase.

Members
Every member of the group received a unique detective name. Despite this, there was never any real attempt by any of the members to conceal their true identities.
 * Detective Ice (Chill57181) - The head detective and founder of the group.
 * Detective 'Stache (Mario Arkay) -
 * Detective 'Nog (Penquino) -
 * Detective Storm (Snowstormer) - An occasional member of the group who assisted the rest of the Trio on a few cases.

Trivia

 * The detectives have much in common. Some of the things in common between all three of them include:
 * They all live on Shops Island.
 * They all have had or currently have a government position on Shops Island. Both Ice and 'Stache have been the President of Shops Island, and all three of them have been the Vice President, with Ice currently serving in the position. Additionally, all three of them are or have been governors; Ice is currently the governor of Central Shops, a position previously held by 'Stache, while 'Nog is the governor of Southern Shops.
 * They have all been members of The KD Band.