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I'll mention Ellery Queen. Two of his books (from the 10 I've read) are better than almost any mystery books that I've read in my entire life. They are The Greek Coffin Mystery and The Egyptian Cross Mystery.
I think Stephanie Plum's humor is limited to native or fluent English speakers. The funniest sleuths for me are tied between John Corey(author, Nelson Demille) and Jaine Austen (author, Laura Levine). One example of humor from the John Corey series is in Plum Island...one suspect, a wine maker, is waxing lyrical about Bacchus, then Corey chimes in "also a hell of a composer." "That's Bach." Very funny.
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