Thread: Who are your FAVORITE SLEUTHS?
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Old 12-06-2014, 08:49 AM   #166
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Originally Posted by Luffy View Post
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.
Have you read his "The Roman Hat Mystery" Luffy? It's the 1st of the Ellery Queen novels. I picked up a copy in (orange) hard cover many yrs ago at a garage sale and enjoyed it.
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