Who's your favourite fictional detective?

[BurlingtonBertieFromBow]

I like Jackson Brodie in Kate Atkinson's books
Also Inspector Barnaby, George Smiley (does some detecting in A Murder of Quality) and Adam Dalgleish

[headinhands]

Columbo each and every time

[BelleCurve]

Mma Ramotswe as she is the No 1 Ladies detective

[iseenodust]

VI Warshawski
Used to like a bit of Jim Rockford on TV (and my guilty secret is Monk on TV on dark wet winter afternoons).

[freelancescientist]

Logan McRae (Stuart MacBride), Rebus, Charlie Parker (John Connolly) is my absolute fave. Loads actually.

[Andromaca]

Ellery Queen and Charlie "Bird" Parker. Magnum P.I.

[coffeeandwine]

Harry Bosch (Michael Connelly) and Hercule Poirot.
They have slightly different styles.

[WyrdMother]

Lord Peter Wimsey.

[thebestnamesaregone]

Albert Campion

[DuchessofMalfi]

Stephanie Plum, Poirot (novels not the TV series - can't stand tv version).

TV - Magnum PI, Columbo, just old enough to remember Starsky & Hutch too.

[UptoapointLordCopper]

Appleby. (Michael Innes novels. Far fetched and uses very long words but I LOVE it.)

[Brices]

Has to be Sherlock

[FuntimeFuschia]

Harry Hole

[OlympiaLMumsnet]

Paul temple

[seeker]

Peter Wimsey, Gervase Fen, John Appleby, Adam Dalgliesh and Roderick Alleyn.

But I am ver' ver' old.

[ArthurandGeorge]

Hercule Poirot and hs little grey cells do it for me!

[SingingSands]

Rebus. Nobody else.

[bruffin]

Sid Halley
Mme Ramotswe
Alex Delaware

[Earthymama]

At this moment another vote for Lord Peter Wimsey as I have been listening to the serialisations on R4+
It is odd as I am Leftie radical!!

I love V I too and Kinsey Mahone (Sue Grafton), Inspector (Elizabeth George) and Merrily Watkins.!(Phil Rickman)

[Earthymama]

Sam Vimes (Terry Pratchett)

[seeker]

Oh, SingingSands reminds me of Alan Grant. How could I have forgotten him!

[pearlgirl]

Inspector Banks (Peter Robinson),Inspector Lynley, Merrily Watkins and Simon Serrailler are my favourites atm.

[ZacharyQuack]

Elvis Cole

[LulaTheOneAndOnlyMrsPistorius]

Harry Bosch
DI Tom Thorne (Mark Billingham)
and, based on MN recommendations I have recently got into PC Grant and Inspector Nightingale in the Ben Aaronovitch books. Looking forward to the 3rd book in the series.

Trying to get into Bryant & May (another MN recommendation) but finding it a bit slow going

[BusinessUnusual]

Lord Peter Wimsey
Alan Grant

[mrsmangelsneck]

Another vote for Jackson Brodie
Inspector Wexford
Miss Marple (but hate those crappy recent itv adaptations)
Louie Knight