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?
2006-10-11 06:05:05 · 20 answers · asked by apocalypso blues 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
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.
2006-10-11 06:48:48 · answer #1 · answered by Abby O'Normal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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!
2006-10-11 09:10:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anne Perrys Detective Pitt
James patterson Alex Cross
2006-10-11 08:51:53 · answer #3 · answered by lainie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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
2006-10-11 07:41:53 · answer #4 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a million. i admire somewhat some names utilized in Harry Potter (maximum surprisingly Ginevra, Bellatrix, & Narcissa), Holden (Catcher in the Rye), Milo (The Phantom Tollbooth), Clare & Henry (The Time vacationer's spouse), Alex (A Clockwork Orange), Cordelia (King Lear), names from Cassandra Clare's sequence (mostly Isabelle, Alec, Jace, and Simon), Nick & Alan (The Demon's Lexicon) and somewhat some, many others that i can not even arise with on the 2d. 2. because of the fact they are notably. Or i admire the characters, and the characters have for that reason prompted the affection of a acceptance. 3. a number of them, like Clare, Alex, and Nick, case in point, are names that have the literary affiliation yet additionally are time-honoured names. So yeah. yet ... Cordelia, on a similar time as notably, won't artwork as properly as a known call, and Bellatrix & Narcissa will continuously be known as "undesirable adult males" in the Harry Potter books. So some confident, others no.
2016-12-26 16:14:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2006-10-11 12:18:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Detective Pitt in books by Anne Perry
Kinsey Milhone
Kaye Scarpetta In works of Patricia Cornwall
V.I. Warsharwski in books by Sara Paretsky
Adam Dagliesh
2006-10-11 07:31:20 · answer #7 · answered by MUD 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hurcule Poirot by Agatha Christie, Inspector Alleyn by Ngaio Marsh.
2006-10-11 08:32:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really like some of Agatha Christie's characters, particularly Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.
2006-10-11 15:05:54 · answer #9 · answered by Ginger/Virginia 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Albert Campion by Margery Allingham. Harder to find these days but well worth the effort - he starts out as a vaguely Wimseyish silly *** 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.
2006-10-11 06:36:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋