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Originally Posted by MartinParish
Favorite sleuths? Elementary, my dear Watson...the one and only, of course. Not that I can find anything good to say about that crass new movie, but hey, I guess film studios have to make money somehow, and they don't have that many great ideas, so it's tough.
After Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot takes second place in my book. I never really enjoyed the Jane Marple mysteries quite as much.
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Heretic!
I like all three of those you mentioned, but Holmes is the only one of whom I can say I've read all 4 novels and all 56 short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in addition to a few that were written by others. I've also watched
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916) starring Douglas Fairbanks as "Coke Ennyday;" a Holmes parody, and enjoyed it.
Of the Holmes novels written by people who weren't Doyle, my favorites are
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1974) by Nicholas Meyer and
A Study in Terror (1966) by Ellery Queen and Paul W. Fairman. The latter was based on a movie of the same name which I've never seen, although I did see
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1975) and thought it was excellent. It was a revisionist take on the legend, but respectfully so.