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Old 08-04-2012, 02:15 PM   #151
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Old 08-04-2012, 03:06 PM   #152
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Anthony Gilbert's (actually Lucy Beatrice Malleson) Arthur Crook.
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Old 08-04-2012, 03:10 PM   #153
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Inspectors Reginald Wexford (Ruth Rendell), Jimmy Perez and Vera Stanhope (Ann Cleeves), and Armand Gamache (Louise Penny).

I've spent many a late night solving mysteries with these sleuths...
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Old 08-04-2012, 03:12 PM   #154
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Also, Alan Bradley's books about the cute eleven-year old detective, Flavia de Luce, are a real hoot!!!!
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Old 08-04-2012, 04:16 PM   #155
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Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse. Then again, those are the only mysteries I can remember reading, other than Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians (which had no sleuth).
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Old 08-04-2012, 04:51 PM   #156
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I like of the violent, no-nonsense type sleuths than the cerebral types. Not sure why. Philip Marlowe's pretty good, but I thinking more of James Ellroy's antiheroes. I guess I just like reading action scenes more than intellectual conversations.
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Old 08-05-2012, 06:56 AM   #157
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I like of the violent, no-nonsense type sleuths than the cerebral types. Not sure why. Philip Marlowe's pretty good, but I thinking more of James Ellroy's antiheroes. I guess I just like reading action scenes more than intellectual conversations.
With me it's entirely the opposite - my favourite type of detective is the intellectual problem-solving variety.
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Old 08-05-2012, 10:34 AM   #158
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With me it's entirely the opposite - my favourite type of detective is the intellectual problem-solving variety.
I like both types.
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Old 08-05-2012, 01:05 PM   #159
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Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot.
Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody.
Hazel Holt's Sheila Malory (I have only read four books in her cosy mystery series, but have enjoyed them a lot).
Derek Landy's Skulduggery Pleasant (YA contemporary fantasy).
P. D. James' Adam Dalgliesh.

There are plenty more I've enjoyed, but that would be a pretty long list...
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Also, Alan Bradley's books about the cute eleven-year old detective, Flavia de Luce, are a real hoot!!!!
Agreed. She's kind of like Merricat from We Have Always LIved in the Castle...if she had devoted her morbid imagination and peculiar obsession with poisons towards the solving of crimes, rather than the committing of them. But Flavia is infinitely more fun and sociable with a witty and acid-like tongue.

I've only read the first book (The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie), but intend to read the rest in the series. It's that good.
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Old 08-11-2012, 09:03 PM   #161
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Lawrence Block's Matthew Scudder is a good one.
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Old 08-12-2012, 12:16 AM   #162
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With me it's entirely the opposite - my favourite type of detective is the intellectual problem-solving variety.
And for me, it's the human-nature solving variety; Maigret being my favourite.

I'd always sloppily thought mysteries were more or less the same, but this discussion is showing some distinct types. Very interesting!
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Most of my favorites were listed. If you like 'cozy' mysteries (Miss Marple? love her), try MC Beaton's books - two series, one featuring Agatha Raisin (a bit two acerbic for me) and the other (better one imho) is Hamish MacBeth - a police constable in Scotland.
(www.stopyourekillingme.com is a great site - but everyone here probably knows that..lol)
How about Jack Swyteck? (Author: James Grippando) He's an attorney in Miami, but does a lot of 'sleuthing' too :-)
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I have 3 that are regular favorites.
1. Sherlock Holmes
2. Hercule Poirot
3. Miss Marple

Each has given me many hrs of reading pleasure.
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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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