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I’ll always love the lads of 221b Baker Street, but I also very much enjoy Ellery Queen and would have a hard time picking between the two.
Who do you enjoy reading and matching wits with?
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My favourite has got to be Hercule Poirot
I love Alex Cross from the James Patterson novels and also Harry Bosch from the Michael Connolly novels.
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Holmes and Hercule Poirot -i have a hard time picking,both are simply gr8.
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Albert Campion by Margery Allingham. Harder to find these days but well worth the effort – he starts out as a vaguely Wimseyish silly ass but grows and changes with each book and becomes a real, original character who grows as the author did. He meets and marries and they grow old together.
I also like the Reggie Fortune stories of HC Bailey but you can only find those in second-hand shops.
Definatly Alex Cross from author James Patterson. Two of his novels featuring Detective Cross are feature films starring Morgan Freeman as Alex Cross. Although rhe movies aren’t nearly as good as the novels they are still entertaining.
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I’ve been a fan of both Holmes and Queen for over 25 years now. I also enjoy Alex Cross and Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple.
Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee.
I was assigned a Tony Hillerman novel as a collage read. His books are crime stories with a Native American (current day) twist. They may not fit you criteria exactly but the Native American setting and cultural spin may satisfy you colloquial/terminology interests. He is a great author I have read many of his Novels since then. He has just come out with a new novel called Skelton Man. Here is a review from Barnes & Nobel:
Hailed as “a wonderful storyteller” by the New York Times, and a “national and literary cultural sensation” by the Los Angeles Times, bestselling author Tony Hillerman is back with another blockbuster novel featuring the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee.
Former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn comes out of retirement to help investigate what seems to be a trading post robbery. A simple-minded kid nailed for the crime is the cousin of an old colleague of Sergeant Jim Chee. He needs help and Chee, and his fiancée Bernie Manuelito, decide to provide it.
Proving the kid’s innocence requires finding the remains of one of 172 people whose bodies were scattered among the cliffs of the Grand Canyon in an epic airline disaster 50 years in the past. That passenger had handcuffed to his wrist an attaché case filled with a fortune in — one of which seems to have turned up in the robbery.
But with Hillerman, it can’t be that simple. The daughter of the long-dead diamond dealer is also seeking his body. So is a most unpleasant fellow willing to kill to make sure she doesn’t succeed. These two tense tales collide deep in the canyon at the place where an old man died trying to build a cult reviving reverence for the Hopi guardian of the Underworld. It’s a race to the finish in a thunderous monsoon storm to see who will survive, who will be brought to justice, and who will finally unearth the Skeleton Man.
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Since his retirement from the Navajo Tribal Police, former lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is running out of stories to tell at the weekly coffee klatches with his buddies. That is until he gets sucked into helping investigate what at first seems to be a simple trading post robbery. The simple-minded kid nailed for the crime is related to a former colleague of Joe’s, and he needs help. Sergeant Jim Chee and his fiancé Bernie are also on the case, which turns into a search for the remains of a passenger on one of the planes that went down into the Grand Canyon 50 years ago. That passenger happened to have handcuffed to his wrist an attaché case filled with a fortune in diamonds – one of which turned up in the robbery. Lots of bad guys are looking for the gems, and it’s a race to the finish during a monsoon in the canyon to see who will survive and who will be brought to justice.
From The Critics
Marilyn Stasio
In his masterly reworking of this powerful myth, Hillerman creates a kachina for contemporary times — a hermit who lives in a cave at the bottom of the Grand Canyon and dispenses diamonds (”the symbol of greed,” according to one wary recipient) that can corrupt anyone who mistakes their cold glitter for true light.
Corrigan Corrigan
Leaphorn says at the outset of Skeleton Man that the story “illustrates his Navajo belief in universal connections. . . . The entire cosmos being an infinitely complicated machine all working together.” With spare elegance, Hillerman makes good on Leaphorn’s promise, even conjuring up a nuptial finale worthy of that non-Native-American master of happy coincidences, Charles Dickens.
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V.I. Warsharwski in books by Sara Paretsky
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Some of my favorite detectives are:
Lilian Jackson Braun’s Jim Qwilleran
Carole Nelson Douglas’s Midnight Louie
P.D. James’s Cordelia Gray
Harry Kemelman’s Rabbi Small
Laurie R. King’s Mary Russell
Hurcule Poirot by Agatha Christie, Inspector Alleyn by Ngaio Marsh.
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Anne Perrys Detective Pitt
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Ellery Queen, Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple are all great ones. A couple of favorites from childhood – Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys and the Bobbsey Twins. But my favorite alltime sleuth — Mrs. Polifax. Dorothy Gilman really created a great character here, and if you haven’t discovered her yet, go looking! It will make you wish she was your grandma!
Lincoln Rhyme, in Jeffery Deaver’s books
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hercule poirot is my favorite.
So many to choose from. Sam Spade, Inspector Clousseau, Hercule Poirot, Sherlock Holmes, J.P. Beaumont. The list is very long and I don’t think anyone can give a difinitive answer, just the protagonists they like. Sorry.
I really like some of Agatha Christie’s characters, particularly Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.
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Mrs. Polifax, a 70 yr. old CIA agent! oK, she’s not exactly a detective, but I don’t read detective stories. She’s the closest I could come up with!
She is awesome!
If you are looking for a spunky heroine try her series by Dorothy Gilman!
I like several of them but Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe was very original.
Regarding Hercule Poirot, I read that Agatha Christie really didn’t like him and cut him out of 4 stage adaptations of her books. I personally thought he was too full of himself.