09-18-2015, 06:23 AM | #1 |
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Good whodunit Books
I have read every book in following series:
Now i am craving fore more detective fiction(I think i am addicted) Now can anyone please recommend more detective / whodunit books. |
09-18-2015, 07:59 AM | #2 |
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Just restricted to series of books...a few come to mind.
Amelia Peabody by Elizabeth Peters Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters A Pot Thief Mystery by J. Michael Orenduff. This is a more modern day series I have recently enjoyed reading. |
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09-18-2015, 08:01 AM | #3 |
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09-18-2015, 10:12 AM | #4 |
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Ellery Queen.
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09-18-2015, 10:27 AM | #5 |
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I second the Amelia Peabody series and would like to add Flavia de Luce. Both series are really enjoyable.
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09-18-2015, 04:34 PM | #6 |
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Two that I liked were the Lord Darcy series by Randall Garrett and the Black Widowers mysteries by Asimov. As far as I can tell, the Black Widowers are not available as ebooks. The Lord Darcy series is available as an omnibus book. Both are somewhat unconventional, but both are definitely who done it.
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09-18-2015, 04:44 PM | #7 |
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I love the Black Widowers. I have them in a paperback edition in Spanish, but I would love to have them in eBook.
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09-18-2015, 04:45 PM | #8 |
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Inspector Allen series by Ngaio Marsh
Lord Peter Wimsey series by Dorothy L Sayers Inspector Gently series by Alan Hunter |
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You might like the Black series by Russell Blake.
That series reminded me of Dashiell Hammett. |
09-19-2015, 11:06 AM | #10 |
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Ellery Queen and many of Otto Penzler's anthologies like The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries.
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09-19-2015, 12:01 PM | #11 |
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09-19-2015, 01:34 PM | #12 |
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I'm liking the locked room mysteries of Hans Olav Lahlum so far (I'm up to the second of the three books). He takes his inspiration from Agatha Christie and Rex Stout, with a dash of Georges Simenon thrown in. The books are written in the usual dry Scandinavian style, but don't have the bleakness you often find in other Scandinavian mysteries. The detective is a likable, well-adjusted young man, who teams up with a brilliant, eccentric teenage girl in a wheelchair. The mysteries are devious and intricate.
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09-19-2015, 05:53 PM | #13 |
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Louise Penny's Inspector Gamache series. I've only read the first 3 but loved them all.
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The Hamish Macbeth series by M. C. Beaton is quite good.
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09-20-2015, 12:14 AM | #15 |
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I like the Philip Marlowe series by Raymond Chandler. I find the gangster slang dialog very enjoyable. Also:
the Masie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear Harry Bosch series by Michael Connelly Anna Katharine Green writes good mysteries, tons are available here at the MR library |
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