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deleted_detective7955
deleted_detective7955

May-16-2004 16:41

Hi any body has read or is a fan of Nancy Drew, The Hardy boys, Trixie bendel? Puhleez post!
P.S. If so do ya have a fave?
A book lover - Mag

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Ms X
Ms X

Nov-21-2005 05:56

Was a huge Trixie Belden fan - had the whole series, read tons of Nancy Drew but something about her always annoyed me. Got given Sherlock Holmes books for birthdays. Then at 10 I found Stephen King and have been on a quest collecting all of his work ever since. I dont get much time to read anymore, wife and mum of young kids most i get to read these days is Dr Suess!! But they're great too. Do you like green eggs and ham?

Lady Emerald Devon
Lady Emerald Devon
Nomad

Jan-14-2006 13:10

Bumps for Mr Brock.

jaypee
jaypee

Jan-27-2006 13:46

Lady Devon, I LOVE Jeffery Deaver books too. I'm trying to collect all his books, except those that he wrote as William Jefferies. I bought Hell's Kitchen and didn't like it. :-/ His Rhyme series are awesome. Other authors' books only have twists in the end, while his has several twists scattered throughout the book. That's why I love his stories.

Another author that I always read is James Patterson. His Cross series are good, especially the first few books. Lately though I feel that Patterson's books lacks something, I don't know what. I'm not satisfied with his later works.

I'm also a Harry Potter. Other authors I read are Michael Crichton (his "Timeline" is my favorite book right now), John Grisham and Stephen King.

Ruby Emerald
Ruby Emerald
Super Steeper

Feb-20-2006 12:25

I'm also an Agatha Christie junkie, I read Nero Wolfe and am very glad that someone still reads Josephine Tey, she's excellent. I also like Ngaio Marsh and P.D. James, but my favourite is Iain Pears and the novels from his art history mysteries like "The Bernini Bust" (there are 7 of them). He also wrote a beautiful novel, "An Instance of the Fingerpost", which is not a thriller, but has all the elements of a mystery.
Those who liked "The da Vinci Code" will also like "The Romanov Prophecy" by Steve Berry. I'm reading it now and it's a very good blend of history and mystery. And I liked very much "The Secret History" by Donna Tart.
But my special favourite is an older Dutch author, Robert van Gulik, who wrote novels about the ancient China in the manner of the classical Chinese detective novel. His detective, Judge Dee, was a historical person and a prominent politician in his day.
I also love the novels by the Spanish author Arturo Perez-Reverte, especially "The Flanders Panel" and "The Club Dumas" which was made into a film, "The Ninth Gate", starring Johnny Depp.

Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Feb-20-2006 15:56

As a kid I really enjoyed The Three Investigators and their underground hideout in the junk yard (as a result my brother and I spent a lot of time excavating in our back yard) also Enclopedia Brown. Sherlock Holmes definitely. I'm a bit of a 'period piece' fan. So I really like Lindsey Davis and her Falco series set in ancient Rome, Ellis Peters mediaeval Brother Cadfael series, similarly PC Doherty & Candace Robb. I'm an Elizabeth Peters addict and love her character Amelia Peabody series (set in early 1900's). There's lots of others but they're the main ones.

crunchpatty
crunchpatty
Old Shoe

Mar-9-2006 01:01

LMAO holy crap squirrel, I haven't thought about Encyclopedia Brown for years! I used to read those over and over again. Who was his little platonic girlfriend...Sally or something? Around the same time, I was also reading Enid Blyton. This takes me back!

This was a pretty long thread so sorry in advance if I'm repeating what others have said. I really loved the Spenser novels by Robert B. Parker, the Kinsey Millhone books by Sue Grafton and I used to -get this- skip classes in high school and spend the time reading the Travis McGee books by John D. MacDonald.

More recently I've enjoyed Philip Kerr's mysteries...Berlin Noir is a great trilogy for example. I also think Carl (might be Karl) Hiaasen's mysteries are great, but they're as much farce as they are mystery.

Oh (wow go this thread for jogging my memory) Tony Hillerman mysteries are also great, they are set in the American southwest and he does a nice job of incorporating the belief and cultural systems of the Native American groups in that area into his stories, very cleverly weaving those threads in with the standard genre. Makes for a really unique style of writing mysteries.

Banana Splits
Banana Splits

Jun-13-2006 12:02

Haha- I remember Encyclopedia Brown! They were a little too short for me, but I read them just for hoots. And the Boxcar Children? I don't think anyone mentioned that. They were nice no-brainers.

I really liked Nancy Drew too- the yellow hardback cover ones. Not the newer ones, those didn't do it for me. There really was a Caroline Keene, she wrote the original Nancy Drew books, because I vaguely remember reading a newspaper article about her when she died. Other people kept on writing with her pen name when she retired. I read all 56 of the yellow hardback ones. I couldn't tell you what a single one of them are named, but I remember the number of books in the series. Go figure. I tried reding the hardy boys books, but I didn't like them. Aren't there some newer books with Nancy Drew and the Hardy boys together? I can't remember. (By "newer" I mean not the original ones).

I've read one Agatha Christie book: And Then There Were None. It was a summer reading assignment for school. I started it and ended up staying awake until 2: 00 a.m. to finish it. I couldn't put it down. I'm sure all the relatives I was visiting thought I was just a social little butterfly. (Note the sarcasm). I'll have to read some more of her books.

Has anybody read The Power of Three? Its some novel by some person. I know. Really informative. We started it in class butnever finished it, and I'm wondering if i should take the initiative to read it on my own. I haven't read any mystery books in a while. Maybe I should. If anybody has read it, tell me if its good or not.

Ms Helen
Ms Helen
Con Artist

Jun-18-2006 19:12

omg nancy drew books i have an ambition to collect the lot. that could take a while :). i used to read them religiously, the mysteries the case files, everything.

i just reading patricia cornwell 'The Body Farm' mainly because of Sleuth it's really good

Della Devine
Della Devine
Well-Connected

Jun-19-2006 01:34

Read all the original Nancy Drew series and the Hardy Boys, and graduated to stories like Sorry, Wrong Number (don't remember who wrote the original radio broadcast) and the works of EA Poe in 3rd grade. There were many others, but I don't remember them at the moment. Currently, I'm a big fan of The Cat Who... series.

Muroi
Muroi

Jun-27-2006 09:48

My favorite mystery author is Laurie R. King - especially her Mary Russell series. Start it from the beginning and do adventures with Mary and Sherlock Holmes :)

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