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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
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some mystery authors i appreciate :
SS Van Dine
JD Carr / Carter Dickson
Léo Malet
Fred Vargas
Marjorie Eccles (Detective Mayo)
Dorothy Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey)
Ian Rankin
Agatha Christie
Mary Roberts Rineheart
Anna Katharine Green
J.W. van de Wetering
émile Gaboriau
Arthur Conan Doyle
Gaston Leroux
GK Chesterton
any other recommendations ? please give a short description as well.[...]
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Well maybe I'm going to state the obvious, but since I see some of my favorites here (Vargas, Rankin, Van De Wetering, Leroux), let's add a few
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Sjöwall & Wahlöö (the inventors of the genre "swedish cop in the rain"
Rankin hasn't begun to pay them the hommage which is due I think --their books are less violent too) (in French 10/18 --translated in English as well)
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Scerbaneco (In '60s Italy, a private eye in a class by himself)(in French 10/18 --translated in English?)
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Sébastien Japrisot (a French classic -- almost all his -few- books are masterpieces; in French Livre de Poche --translated in English too)(
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Peter Robinson [Inspector Banks](was long thought of a "Inspector Rebus's younger brother"; but a voice for himself --good detection, interesting British life in a small town...in French Livre de Poche)
Now AFAIK they're all in pbook format
Well well well if I think of anything else?
[Now the best idea, Zelda, is you just drop your job & make reading your full-time occupation, hm?]