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I'll third Deadly Appearances.
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I nominate The Apothecary Rose (Owen Archer, #1) by Candace Robb
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01-22-2016, 09:36 AM | #33 |
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Did Ellis Peters start all this with her Brother Cadfael series, or were detectives from the Middle Ages always popular? This is the second such nomination this month. But it does look interesting, so...
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01-22-2016, 10:28 AM | #34 |
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I think it was Agatha Christie (remember "Death Comes as the End" 1944?)
But there are several good ancient sleuths, as Gordianus by Steven Saylor (Ancient Rome), Judge Dee by Robert van Gulik (Ancient China), Sano Ichiro by Laura Joh Rowland (Ancient Japan), to name a few. |
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In have a couple of nominations.
Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey, first published in 1949. Spoiler:
Amazon Also there's a PD version at the Unversity of Adelaide's website. You can read it online: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/t/tey/josephine/ The other book I'd like to nominate is Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler, the first of his Bryant and May series. Spoiler:
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I would suggest you nominate the first book of the series. My guess is that you are up to 14 in the series and are just saying it's OK to read out of order just to try to get it to win so you can read 14. |
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I'll second Leviathan Wakes.
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I'll second Brat Farrar and Full Dark House.
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For some series, character growth is far less important than continuity. Nero Wolfe is a case in point. Fascinating but unchanging characters and relationships form the framework upon which the stories hang, and they can be read in any order with no loss. In such series, the stability of the key characters is a plus. Curling up with one of these books is like a visit from an old friend. Their very unchanging nature works to develop a bond of trust with the reader.
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