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Hercule Poirot, Sherlock Holmes, Inspector Wexford
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02-08-2010, 05:55 AM | #47 |
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The already mentioned Dirk Gently, but also Elijah Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw from Asimov's Caves Of Steel, and Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden. For those of you interested in sci-fi detective stories, you might find the following sites of interest:
http://mainly-mysteries.blogspot.com...etectives.html http://www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/li...e/escapist.htm http://www.ascpl.lib.oh.us/internetr...fdetective.pdf |
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Luckily, the late great Robert B. Parker left some new titles for us - his next Jesse Stone novel, SPLIT IMAGE, is due on February 23rd.
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Does anyone have any hard boiled detectives to recommend?
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02-10-2010, 08:26 AM | #50 |
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Need some recommendations:
which authors are good at locked room sleuthing? By locked room I simply just mean static situations, not necessarily a ROOM e.g. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. |
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02-10-2010, 09:32 AM | #51 |
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All of my favorites are already in this thread, nothing to add heh...
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02-10-2010, 09:37 AM | #52 |
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Wikipedia on the locked room story. I already mentioned Futrelle I think, and I am too lazy to go through the Wikipedia and list all the ones I can personally vouch for, but there were names I recognized.
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Another favorite author is Dick Francis, who doesn't really write series detective stories except for two or three books about Sid Halley. Each book revolves in some way around steeplechase racing, but the detective is usually someone who just finds him or herself in a situation that they have to get out of. |
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02-11-2010, 04:10 PM | #55 |
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One of the best sleuths, Ed Clive, only appeared once in the Leigh Brackett Novel 'No Good From A Corpse". Because of Brackett's masterly writing skills she was hired to write the Big Sleep screenplay alongside William Faulkner. It's a fantastic book, and the nearest you'll get to Chandler without it being Chandler. It's also available for free at Munsey's (http://www.munseys.com/book/31305/No_Good_from_a_Corpse)
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02-11-2010, 04:40 PM | #56 |
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I agree with a lot of the people in this thread.
I also have some favorite amateur sleuth series that have cats and dogs as main characters: Koko (and his human James "Qwill" Qwilleran) from Lillian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who... series, Mrs. Murphy, Tucker and Pewter from Rita Mae Brown's Mrs. Murphy books, and Holly Winter and her Alaskan Malamutes from Susan Conant's Dog Lover Mysteries. |
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C.F. Wong and Joyce Mc Quinney from Nury Vittachi
Kommissar Kluftinger from Volker Klüpfel and Michael Kobr Elvis Cole and Joe Pike from Robert Crais Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus Eliot Pattison's Inspector Shan |
02-15-2010, 10:36 PM | #58 |
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I'd like to suggest:
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. I'm sure someone's mentioned The No.1 Ladies series...it's on my list to read after having loved the BBC series of the same name. And I have a nostalgic memory for the Hardy Boys and Tom Swift/Tom Swift Jr. books. |
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Philip Marlowe, without a doubt. And Pepe Carvalho, the Calalan sleuth who burns books in his chimney and is a lover of good food. After reading Zelda's contribution I might add Adamsberg, though I agree with her about the evangelists, I liked them much better.
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02-17-2010, 04:40 AM | #60 |
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Anyone read the Karen Rose books, they are a bit graphic and gruesome, but well worth reading. Not sure if you can get them as ebooks, as I read them in pb before I got the Sony.
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