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Oct-13-2009 20:38

This is another simple, fun game. (Plus, you all love seeing my mug at the top of this board!)

I will pick a subject (eg. Animals) and the object is to come up with something relating to that subject beginning with the next letter of the alphabet, starting at A and ending at Z. Whoever comes up with something for the letter Z gets to pick the next subject. For example:

Subject: Animals
Person 1: A - Aardvark
Person 2: B - Beaver
etc...

So, to start us off:

Subject: Colours

Oct-24-2009 09:47

The Continental Op (stories by Dashiell Hammett)

(While all his fellow operatives seem to have names, his name is never - in all the stories I know of - given. He is simply known as the Continental Op.)

Oct-24-2009 10:20

Well this was a good time to check in

Hercule Poirot!

Oct-24-2009 10:55

Ellery Queen

Oct-26-2009 01:50

John Rebus (Ian Rankin books)

Oct-26-2009 04:00

sam spade ( maltese falcon 1930)

Oct-26-2009 06:18

Simon Templar, the Saint (books by Leslie Charteris),

Oct-26-2009 06:32

The comma is a leftover of a sentence I intended to add about the Saint being one of my childhood heroes, when I was about twelve :).

Oct-27-2009 04:37

Mine too!

Charles Unwin ('The Manual of Detection' by Jedediah Berry - OK, so that took a little Googling...)

Oct-27-2009 06:22

Van Veeteren (books by Håkan Nesser)

Oct-27-2009 07:45

Lord Peter Wimsey (Dorothy Sayers)