Who are your FAVORITE SLEUTHS? - Page 8

Mrraow · 08-17-2010, 06:03 PM

Chance Purdue has to be the funniest PI on the planet (author: Ross H. Spencer).
Bernie Rhodenbarr (Lawrence Block's Burglar Who... series) haven't been mentioned yet. Shame on the lot of you!

Anthony Boucher wrote some great locked room mysteries. Can't remember the names of the protagonists, though

steve2645 · 08-20-2010, 10:03 AM

I'm a fan of Ridley Pearson's Lou Boldt/Daphne Matthews series...wish there new ones.

TimMason · 08-20-2010, 10:24 AM

Reginald Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe

SlowRain · 08-20-2010, 10:53 AM

I'm not sure how broad the definition of 'sleuth' is, but I'm partial to Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko novels, with the exception of Stalin's Ghost, which I seriously disliked. I'm hoping his new one, Three Stations, will be a return to form, but I haven't heard much about it yet as it was just released. Olen Steinhauer, in the New York Times, seemed to be more praising of Arkady's past adventures than this one, but that's just me reading between the lines.

TGS · 08-20-2010, 10:53 AM

Has to be Jane Marple - but only if she's played by Edith Evans or Joan Hickson.

tomereader · 08-20-2010, 04:08 PM

Laurie R. King's Mary Russell, Kate Martinelli
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/k/laurie-r-king/
The Beekeeper's Apprentice is one of my top 20 all time books any genre

Liz Evans Grace Smith series
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/e/liz-evans/
has a lot of humor very reminiscent of Stephanie Plum

Catherine Coulter's FBI thrillers
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/catherine-coulter/
The series seems like more matchmaking, and now psychic
activities than sleuthing

Already mentioned was Donna Andrews Meg Langslow series but not the
Turing Hopper series featuring a mostly immobile sleuth like Nero Wolfe
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/a/donna-andrews/

tomereader · 08-20-2010, 04:11 PM

Here are the authors and sleuths to the last post:
Three posts, I could not find anything for the names submitted

========================

Who are your FAVORITE SLEUTHS?

Robert B. Parker: Jesse Stone, Sunny Randall, and Spenser
Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch
Travis McGee by John D. MacDonald
Stephanie Plum by Janet Evanovich
Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta
Jeffery Deavers' 'Lincoln Rhyme,'
John Sandford's 'Lucas Davenport,'
Ian Rankin's 'Inspector Rebus.'
Faye Kellerman's wonderful pair, 'Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus.'
Philip Marlowe, The Continental Op by Raymond Chandler
Sam Spade by Dashiell Hammett
Montalbano, the main character of Andrea Camilleri
Nestor Burma by Léo Malet
Nick Charles (from "the thin man" by Dashiell Hammett),
Inspector Maigret by Georges Simenon
Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple
Lord Peter Wimsey by Dorothy L. Sayers
Dr. Gideon Fell by John Dickson Carr
Philo Vance by S. S. Van Dine (the pen name of Willard Huntington Wright)
Dr. Thorndyke by R. Austin Freeman
M. Wens by S.A. Steeman,
Donald Lam by A. A. Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner)
Erle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason
Fred Vargas' Inspector Adamsberg
Inspector Morse by Colin Dexter
Thursday Next by Jasper Fforde
Toby Peters (by Stuart Kaminsky)
Inspector Thomas Lynley by Elizabeth George
Napoleon "Boney” Bonaparte by Arthur Upfield,
Ian Rankin‘s Inspector Rebus
Lincoln Perry and Joe Pritchard by Michael Koryta
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes
Sara Paretsky’s VI Warshawski
Dennis Lehane’s Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro
Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot
Dorothy Gilman's Mrs. Pollifax
Tommy & Tuppence by Agatha Christie
J. D. Robb's Eve Dallas
Kinky Friedman by Kinky Friedman
Anne Perry's 'Inspector Monk'
Michael Bond's 'Monsieur Pamplemousse' and his faithful bloodhound, Pommes Frites.
Cleo Coyle's Clare Cossi
Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone
Tee Morris’s Billibub Baddings
Jacques Futrelle’s Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. S. F. X. Van Dusen a.k.a "The Thinking Machine".
Arsene Lupin series by Maurice LeBlanc
E. W. Hornung's Raffles series,
G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown
Ernest Bramah’s Max Carrados, the blind detective.
Anna Katharine Green’s Ebenezer Gryce, Violet Strange
Mary Roberts Rinehart’s Miss Cornelia Van Gorder, Letitia (Tish) Carberry, Hilda Adams
Wilkie Collins The Woman in White (Sensation Novels, precursor to detective and/or speculative fiction)
Jack Reacher from Lee Child
Joe Pike and Elvis Cole from Robert Crais
Tom Ripley from Patricia Highsmith
Jimmy Kudo/Conan Edogawa by Gosho Aoyama
Lt. Columbo various authors
Will Thomas’s Cyrus Barker and his assistant Thomas Llewelyn
Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander
Jim Butcher's 'The Dresden Files'
Nancy Drew Corolyn Keene (various authors)
Dirk Gently (Douglas Adams)
Robert Hans van Gulik - Judge Dee
H. R. F. Keating - Inspector Ghote
Nils-Olof Franzén's Agaton Sax
Amelia Peabody by Elizabeth Peters
Sir Henry Merrivale by Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr)
Inspector Banks novels by Peter Robinson
Martin Amis' Night Train
THE CURIOUS CASEBOOK OF INSPECTOR HANSHICHI: Detective Stories of Old Edo, by Kido Okamoto, translated by Ian MacDonald
Brother Cadfael (by Ellis Peters)
Marcus Didius Falco (Lindsey Davis' Roman investigator)
Stephanie Barron's vision of Jane Austen as an amateur detective.
Inspector Lestrade stories by M. J. Trow
Donna Andrews' Meg Langslow (a blacksmith in Virginia),
Beverly Connor's Diane Fallon (Forensic Anthropologist & Director of Natural History Museum in Georgia) Lindsay Chamberlain (Forensic Archeologist in Georgia),
D.R. Meredith's Megan Clark (Librarian & forensic anthropologist in Texas)
Laura Childs' Theo Browning (Tea shop owner in Charlston, SC).
Decius Caecilius Metellus by John Maddox Roberts
Inspector Alleyn mysteries (Ngaio Marsh)
Ellis Peters' Inspector Felse (as an alternative to her Brother Cadfael)
Dalziel and Pascoe by Reginald Hill
DCI Barnaby's Midsomer books by Caroline Graham.
Inspector Wexford by Ruth Rendell
Elijah Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw from IsaacAsimov's Caves of Steel
Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden
Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe
Ellery Queen (limiting this to the books in which Ellery is the sleuth)
Dick Francis Steeplechase mysteries
Ed Clive, only appeared once in the Leigh Brackett Novel 'No Good From A Corpse"
Lillian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who... series,
Rita Mae Brown's Mrs. Murphy books, Sister Jane
Holly Winter and her Alaskan Malamutes from Susan Conant's Dog Lover Mysteries
C.F. Wong and Joyce Mc Quinney from Nury Vittachi
Kommissar Kluftinger from Volker Klüpfel and Michael Kobr
Eliot Pattison's Inspector Shan
Harry Kemelman's books staring Rabbi David Small
Brian Freeman's Jonathan Stride series
Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake (erotic magic-oriented detective series of a sort)
J. A. Konrath's Jack Daniels series (see his blog for great commentary on ebooks/drm/etc)
Gregory McDonald's Fletch series.
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child's Pendergast series.
The Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters.
Ridley Pearson's Boldt/Matthews series.
The No.1 Ladies series by Alexander McCall Smith
Hardy Boys Franklin W. Dixon (various authors)
Tom Swift/Tom Swift Jr. books by Victor Appleton
Pepe Carvalho by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg by Fred Vargas
Karen Rose’s Daniel Vartanian
Sara Woods's Antony Maitland
Lord Darcy by Randall Garrett
Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series by Tess Gerritsen
Aurelio Zen (by Michael Dibden)
Arkady Renko (Michael Cruz Smith)
Martha Grimes' Richard Jury/Melrose Plant
Anne Perry's Thomas Pitt
Lawrence Sanders' Francis X. Delaney
Sonchai Jitpleecheep of the Royal Thai Police in a series of novels by John Burdett
Aurora Teagarden series by Charlaine Harris
Stone Barrington Stuart Woods
Leslie Glass' Detective April Woo
Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks
John Connolly's Charlie Parker
Andrew Vachss' Burke
Gervase Fen mysteries by Edmund Crispin
Lovejoy stories by Jonathan Gash
Lawrence Block's Matt Scudder.
Joe Picket from the CJ BOx Mystery Novels.
Eduardo Mendoza's schizophrenic detective - we never learn his name
Manuel Vasquez Montalban's Pepe Carvalho
Aloysius X. L. Pendergast (novels by Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston)
Easy Rawlins. Walter Mosley
James Patterson's Alex Cross
Dan Brown's Robert Langdon
Anna Pigeon by Nevada Barr
Flavia de Luce by Alan Bradley
Jeremiah Healey's ex MP John Cuddy
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1974) by Nicholas Meyer
A Study in Terror (1966) by Ellery Queen and Paul W. Fairman
Trixie Belden by Julie Campbell/Kathryn Kenny
Harry Hole the inspector from Jo Nesbo
Commissario Guido Brunetti from Donna Leon
Marshal Guarnaccia from the series by Magdalen Nabb
Icelandic Noir: Detective Erlendur from Arnaldur Indriðason's series.
American: Steve Carella from Ed McBain's 87th Precinct novels.
Abe Lieberman from Stuart Kaminsky's Lieberman series
A.C. Baantjer "DeKok and the...”
Leo Waterman by G.M. Ford
D.D. Warren, a detective in Lisa Gardner'
Chance Purdue has to be the funniest PI on the planet (author: Ross H. Spencer).
Bernie Rhodenbarr (Lawrence Block's Burglar Who... series)
Anthony Boucher locked room mysteries.
Reginald Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe
Donna Andrews’ Turing Hopper series
Catherine Coulter's FBI thrillers
Liz Evans Grace Smith series

Nothing found on:
Rock Lobster
Elliot Finch
john wiiliam and sara.

FlorenceArt · 08-20-2010, 04:24 PM

You will find Rock Lobster right here on MR, and some of his adventures here.

TC Beacham · 08-23-2010, 02:39 PM

Thanks for the list tomereader!!

GA Russell · 08-23-2010, 03:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tomereader

Here are the authors and sleuths to the last post:

Philip Marlowe, The Continental Op by Raymond Chandler
Sam Spade by Dashiell Hammett

Great work, tomereader, but The Continental Op is a Dashiell Hammett character! I recommend Red Harvest. but any of the short stories and The Dain Curse will do too. There's not a bad one!

jj2me · 08-24-2010, 01:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ficbot

Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone series is very good, and consistently so.

For distracted audiobook listening (e.g., while driving a car), I find all in this series to be terrific. Audiobook listening has some special requirements, like having character names that are easily distinguishable, a slower-paced character introduction, and other things I'm not consciously aware of. Somehow, I don't seem to need to rewind Grafton's audiobooks much, if at all. I'll never *read* this series, saving them all for audiobook listening.

(Worst audiobook ever, despite it being an excellent print book, is "Last Orders." A plethora of short character names, with interleaved character introductions and development. I not only rewound constantly, but restarted from scratch three times, finally writing down the characters' names and their occupations and relationships.)

susan_cassidy · 08-24-2010, 01:25 PM

Lord Peter Wimsey is my favorite, but I enjoy many of the others mentioned. Holmes, of course, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple.

Kathy Reichs, Beverly Connor, Peter Robinson, Lee Child are all current must-reads.

No one mentioned the old "Miss Silver" books, by Patricia Wentworth. I don't think they are available in ebook form, unfortunately.

I also remember enjoying Marjorie Allingham's Albert Campion books, but it has been many, many years since I read them. I don't think they've been mentioned, but I could have missed it.

jj2me · 08-24-2010, 01:41 PM

Myron Bolitar, from the series, written by Harlen Coben. OK, Myron's primary income source is as a sports agent, but he's always getting sleuth jobs. And his ever-capable sidekick Windsor Horne Lockwood III.

Another great series for audiobook listening.

Coben was a fraternity brother of Dan Brown, but don't hold that against him.

FlorenceArt · 08-24-2010, 01:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jj2me

Myron Bolitar, from the series, written by Harlen Coben. OK, Myron's primary income source is as a sports agent, but he's always getting sleuth jobs. And his ever-capable sidekick Windsor Horne Lockwood III.

Another great series for audiobook listening.

Coben was a fraternity brother of Dan Brown, but don't hold that against him.

Ah, yes, the homicidal sidekick. I have to admit I have a problem with that. How convenient to have a friend like that to clean up your mess after you and leave your conscience clean. We should all have one.

I'm usually not such a moral bigot, but this was too much for me. I liked the first book well enough, and I think I read a second one, but I stopped after that. I didn't mind it too much the first time, but when it became obvious it was going to be a permanent plot feature, I couldn't go on reading.

Bidibulle · 12-29-2010, 02:53 PM

My favourites:

-Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn by Tony Hillerman
-Stoney Calhoun by William Tapply (only 3 books: the author passed away recently)
-Walt Longmire by Craig Johnson
-Pike and Cole by Robert Crais (new book on Pike next January

)
-Picket by C.J Box

I like when the plot and characters are in the wild wild west

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08-17-2010, 06:03 PM	#106
Mrraow Bookworm Posts: 30 Karma: 106 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: London, England Device: Opus	Chance Purdue has to be the funniest PI on the planet (author: Ross H. Spencer). Bernie Rhodenbarr (Lawrence Block's Burglar Who... series) haven't been mentioned yet. Shame on the lot of you! Anthony Boucher wrote some great locked room mysteries. Can't remember the names of the protagonists, though

08-20-2010, 10:03 AM	#107
steve2645 Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: nook	I'm a fan of Ridley Pearson's Lou Boldt/Daphne Matthews series...wish there new ones.

08-20-2010, 10:24 AM	#108
TimMason Big Ears Posts: 191 Karma: 2229 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Pontoise, France Device: Onyx Boox 60, iPad	Reginald Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe

08-20-2010, 10:53 AM	#109
SlowRain Addict Posts: 311 Karma: 9553 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: a Canadian expat in Taiwan Device: HTC 10, Asus Phonepad	I'm not sure how broad the definition of 'sleuth' is, but I'm partial to Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko novels, with the exception of Stalin's Ghost, which I seriously disliked. I'm hoping his new one, Three Stations, will be a return to form, but I haven't heard much about it yet as it was just released. Olen Steinhauer, in the New York Times, seemed to be more praising of Arkady's past adventures than this one, but that's just me reading between the lines.

08-20-2010, 10:53 AM	#110
TGS Country Member Posts: 9,058 Karma: 7676767 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Denmark Device: Liseuse: Irex DR800. PRS 505 in the house, and the missus has an iPad.	Has to be Jane Marple - but only if she's played by Edith Evans or Joan Hickson.

08-20-2010, 04:08 PM	#111
tomereader Zealot Posts: 124 Karma: 664461 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: North Coast of Ohio Device: Ectaco JBL, Archos 5, 7, 70, Kindle DXG, Craig 7, Vizio Vtab	Laurie R. King's Mary Russell, Kate Martinelli http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/k/laurie-r-king/ The Beekeeper's Apprentice is one of my top 20 all time books any genre Liz Evans Grace Smith series http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/e/liz-evans/ has a lot of humor very reminiscent of Stephanie Plum Catherine Coulter's FBI thrillers http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/catherine-coulter/ The series seems like more matchmaking, and now psychic activities than sleuthing Already mentioned was Donna Andrews Meg Langslow series but not the Turing Hopper series featuring a mostly immobile sleuth like Nero Wolfe http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/a/donna-andrews/

08-20-2010, 04:11 PM	#112
tomereader Zealot Posts: 124 Karma: 664461 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: North Coast of Ohio Device: Ectaco JBL, Archos 5, 7, 70, Kindle DXG, Craig 7, Vizio Vtab	Here are the authors and sleuths to the last post: Three posts, I could not find anything for the names submitted ======================== Who are your FAVORITE SLEUTHS? Robert B. Parker: Jesse Stone, Sunny Randall, and Spenser Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch Travis McGee by John D. MacDonald Stephanie Plum by Janet Evanovich Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta Jeffery Deavers' 'Lincoln Rhyme,' John Sandford's 'Lucas Davenport,' Ian Rankin's 'Inspector Rebus.' Faye Kellerman's wonderful pair, 'Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus.' Philip Marlowe, The Continental Op by Raymond Chandler Sam Spade by Dashiell Hammett Montalbano, the main character of Andrea Camilleri Nestor Burma by Léo Malet Nick Charles (from "the thin man" by Dashiell Hammett), Inspector Maigret by Georges Simenon Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple Lord Peter Wimsey by Dorothy L. Sayers Dr. Gideon Fell by John Dickson Carr Philo Vance by S. S. Van Dine (the pen name of Willard Huntington Wright) Dr. Thorndyke by R. Austin Freeman M. Wens by S.A. Steeman, Donald Lam by A. A. Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner) Erle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason Fred Vargas' Inspector Adamsberg Inspector Morse by Colin Dexter Thursday Next by Jasper Fforde Toby Peters (by Stuart Kaminsky) Inspector Thomas Lynley by Elizabeth George Napoleon "Boney” Bonaparte by Arthur Upfield, Ian Rankin‘s Inspector Rebus Lincoln Perry and Joe Pritchard by Michael Koryta Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes Sara Paretsky’s VI Warshawski Dennis Lehane’s Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot Dorothy Gilman's Mrs. Pollifax Tommy & Tuppence by Agatha Christie J. D. Robb's Eve Dallas Kinky Friedman by Kinky Friedman Anne Perry's 'Inspector Monk' Michael Bond's 'Monsieur Pamplemousse' and his faithful bloodhound, Pommes Frites. Cleo Coyle's Clare Cossi Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone Tee Morris’s Billibub Baddings Jacques Futrelle’s Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. S. F. X. Van Dusen a.k.a "The Thinking Machine". Arsene Lupin series by Maurice LeBlanc E. W. Hornung's Raffles series, G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown Ernest Bramah’s Max Carrados, the blind detective. Anna Katharine Green’s Ebenezer Gryce, Violet Strange Mary Roberts Rinehart’s Miss Cornelia Van Gorder, Letitia (Tish) Carberry, Hilda Adams Wilkie Collins The Woman in White (Sensation Novels, precursor to detective and/or speculative fiction) Jack Reacher from Lee Child Joe Pike and Elvis Cole from Robert Crais Tom Ripley from Patricia Highsmith Jimmy Kudo/Conan Edogawa by Gosho Aoyama Lt. Columbo various authors Will Thomas’s Cyrus Barker and his assistant Thomas Llewelyn Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander Jim Butcher's 'The Dresden Files' Nancy Drew Corolyn Keene (various authors) Dirk Gently (Douglas Adams) Robert Hans van Gulik - Judge Dee H. R. F. Keating - Inspector Ghote Nils-Olof Franzén's Agaton Sax Amelia Peabody by Elizabeth Peters Sir Henry Merrivale by Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr) Inspector Banks novels by Peter Robinson Martin Amis' Night Train THE CURIOUS CASEBOOK OF INSPECTOR HANSHICHI: Detective Stories of Old Edo, by Kido Okamoto, translated by Ian MacDonald Brother Cadfael (by Ellis Peters) Marcus Didius Falco (Lindsey Davis' Roman investigator) Stephanie Barron's vision of Jane Austen as an amateur detective. Inspector Lestrade stories by M. J. Trow Donna Andrews' Meg Langslow (a blacksmith in Virginia), Beverly Connor's Diane Fallon (Forensic Anthropologist & Director of Natural History Museum in Georgia) Lindsay Chamberlain (Forensic Archeologist in Georgia), D.R. Meredith's Megan Clark (Librarian & forensic anthropologist in Texas) Laura Childs' Theo Browning (Tea shop owner in Charlston, SC). Decius Caecilius Metellus by John Maddox Roberts Inspector Alleyn mysteries (Ngaio Marsh) Ellis Peters' Inspector Felse (as an alternative to her Brother Cadfael) Dalziel and Pascoe by Reginald Hill DCI Barnaby's Midsomer books by Caroline Graham. Inspector Wexford by Ruth Rendell Elijah Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw from IsaacAsimov's Caves of Steel Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Ellery Queen (limiting this to the books in which Ellery is the sleuth) Dick Francis Steeplechase mysteries Ed Clive, only appeared once in the Leigh Brackett Novel 'No Good From A Corpse" Lillian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who... series, Rita Mae Brown's Mrs. Murphy books, Sister Jane Holly Winter and her Alaskan Malamutes from Susan Conant's Dog Lover Mysteries C.F. Wong and Joyce Mc Quinney from Nury Vittachi Kommissar Kluftinger from Volker Klüpfel and Michael Kobr Eliot Pattison's Inspector Shan Harry Kemelman's books staring Rabbi David Small Brian Freeman's Jonathan Stride series Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake (erotic magic-oriented detective series of a sort) J. A. Konrath's Jack Daniels series (see his blog for great commentary on ebooks/drm/etc) Gregory McDonald's Fletch series. Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child's Pendergast series. The Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters. Ridley Pearson's Boldt/Matthews series. The No.1 Ladies series by Alexander McCall Smith Hardy Boys Franklin W. Dixon (various authors) Tom Swift/Tom Swift Jr. books by Victor Appleton Pepe Carvalho by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg by Fred Vargas Karen Rose’s Daniel Vartanian Sara Woods's Antony Maitland Lord Darcy by Randall Garrett Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series by Tess Gerritsen Aurelio Zen (by Michael Dibden) Arkady Renko (Michael Cruz Smith) Martha Grimes' Richard Jury/Melrose Plant Anne Perry's Thomas Pitt Lawrence Sanders' Francis X. Delaney Sonchai Jitpleecheep of the Royal Thai Police in a series of novels by John Burdett Aurora Teagarden series by Charlaine Harris Stone Barrington Stuart Woods Leslie Glass' Detective April Woo Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks John Connolly's Charlie Parker Andrew Vachss' Burke Gervase Fen mysteries by Edmund Crispin Lovejoy stories by Jonathan Gash Lawrence Block's Matt Scudder. Joe Picket from the CJ BOx Mystery Novels. Eduardo Mendoza's schizophrenic detective - we never learn his name Manuel Vasquez Montalban's Pepe Carvalho Aloysius X. L. Pendergast (novels by Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston) Easy Rawlins. Walter Mosley James Patterson's Alex Cross Dan Brown's Robert Langdon Anna Pigeon by Nevada Barr Flavia de Luce by Alan Bradley Jeremiah Healey's ex MP John Cuddy The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1974) by Nicholas Meyer A Study in Terror (1966) by Ellery Queen and Paul W. Fairman Trixie Belden by Julie Campbell/Kathryn Kenny Harry Hole the inspector from Jo Nesbo Commissario Guido Brunetti from Donna Leon Marshal Guarnaccia from the series by Magdalen Nabb Icelandic Noir: Detective Erlendur from Arnaldur Indriðason's series. American: Steve Carella from Ed McBain's 87th Precinct novels. Abe Lieberman from Stuart Kaminsky's Lieberman series A.C. Baantjer "DeKok and the...” Leo Waterman by G.M. Ford D.D. Warren, a detective in Lisa Gardner' Chance Purdue has to be the funniest PI on the planet (author: Ross H. Spencer). Bernie Rhodenbarr (Lawrence Block's Burglar Who... series) Anthony Boucher locked room mysteries. Reginald Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe Donna Andrews’ Turing Hopper series Catherine Coulter's FBI thrillers Liz Evans Grace Smith series Nothing found on: Rock Lobster Elliot Finch john wiiliam and sara.

08-20-2010, 04:24 PM	#113
FlorenceArt High Priestess Posts: 5,761 Karma: 5042529 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Montreuil sous bois, France Device: iPad Pro 9.7, iPhone 6 Plus	You will find Rock Lobster right here on MR, and some of his adventures here.

08-23-2010, 02:39 PM	#114
TC Beacham Great Beach Reads! Posts: 202 Karma: 300000 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: Kindle 2	Thanks for the list tomereader!!

08-24-2010, 01:25 PM	#117
susan_cassidy Wizard Posts: 2,251 Karma: 3720310 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: USA Device: Kindle, iPad (not used much for reading)	Lord Peter Wimsey is my favorite, but I enjoy many of the others mentioned. Holmes, of course, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple. Kathy Reichs, Beverly Connor, Peter Robinson, Lee Child are all current must-reads. No one mentioned the old "Miss Silver" books, by Patricia Wentworth. I don't think they are available in ebook form, unfortunately. I also remember enjoying Marjorie Allingham's Albert Campion books, but it has been many, many years since I read them. I don't think they've been mentioned, but I could have missed it.

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08-24-2010, 01:41 PM	#118
jj2me Guru Posts: 820 Karma: 8820388 Join Date: Dec 2008 Device: Sony PRS-505, -350; Kindle 3 3G, DX, PW 2; various tablets	Myron Bolitar, from the series, written by Harlen Coben. OK, Myron's primary income source is as a sports agent, but he's always getting sleuth jobs. And his ever-capable sidekick Windsor Horne Lockwood III. Another great series for audiobook listening. Coben was a fraternity brother of Dan Brown, but don't hold that against him.

12-29-2010, 02:53 PM	#120
Bidibulle Enthusiast Posts: 25 Karma: 1072 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: France Device: Kobo Clara Hd	My favourites: -Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn by Tony Hillerman -Stoney Calhoun by William Tapply (only 3 books: the author passed away recently) -Walt Longmire by Craig Johnson -Pike and Cole by Robert Crais (new book on Pike next January ) -Picket by C.J Box I like when the plot and characters are in the wild wild west