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what's your favorite detective/mystery book?
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Wolf_Lawliet
Wolf_Lawliet

Oct-2-2009 11:48

what's your favorite detective/mystery book? haha am looking for a new book to read! am just gonna steal your favorites! ^-^

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Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Oct-14-2009 19:03

I think I liked Holmes because of his faults. The perfect crime solving machine, lauded by all as the model of intelligence and foresight, and yet still all the while, all that is frail and flawed in humanity. How ordinary a Detective would Sherlock Holmes have been if he hadn't been flawed? Could regimental Watson living his bland suburban existence, even magically transplanted with Homles intelligence & foresight, ever have been as Holmes as Holmes? Never.

Wolf_Lawliet
Wolf_Lawliet

Oct-15-2009 01:30

Yeah! thanks! lol only other book I have read is The Beekeeper's Apprentice which I liked a lot! and Secret_Squirrel does make a point! lol


Bela Talbot III
Bela Talbot III
Con Artist

Jul-24-2013 05:43

My favourite is "And then there were none" for sure! So far, that is :) I did fall asleep through the beginning, when all the characters where being introduced, but when they started dying, I woke up in a hurry :D

Lady Jas
Lady Jas
The Chosen One

Jul-24-2013 10:56

OOOH That was a good one Bela. I admit to having the computer game for it too and I thought it was pretty good.

Lady Emerald Devon
Lady Emerald Devon
Nomad

Jul-24-2013 11:09

Quite enjoying JR Rain on Kindle. They're quite trashy but he's aware of that and often pokes fun of himself (and his characters) in his books. Funny, light, trashy detective novels but a delight to read. (Jim Darkhorse/Samatha Moon series that I've mostly read)

I have never read Sherlock Holmes but really enjoyed Laurie R King Mary Russel books. She's a female detective that meets with Holmes after his retirement and eventually marries him.

Koseth
Koseth

Dec-21-2013 21:28

The Maltese Falcon by Raymond Chandler, the hard boiled gumshoe master.

Rick Meadows
Rick Meadows

Jun-7-2014 14:53

My tastes are more towards the hardboiled side of the detective story, Hammett, Chandler et cetera

My favourite is 'Red Harvest' by Dashiell Hammett, followed by 'The Maltese Falcon' by the same author; after that I think I like 'Farewell My Lovely' by Raymond Chandler.

I am also a big fan of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series and Poirot is a guilty pleasure). William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki tales are great.

If we go outside of P.I. related hardboiled stories I like every novel I have read by Graham Greene (two of the most famous and two of my favourites being 'The Third Man', 'The Quiet American')

aarti
aarti

Jan-2-2015 23:34

THE MYSTERIOUS FOUR

M. Lacrimosa
M. Lacrimosa
Thespian

Jul-24-2015 15:46

I'm a Harlan Coben fan. His murder mystery books have twists that blow your mind. I really like a book he wrote called Hold Tight

AndrewX
AndrewX
Washed Up Punter

Sep-30-2015 15:51

I personally am a huge Poirot fan.
"Ten little niggers" and "The big Four" were mindblowing!

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