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Who's your favourite fictional detective?

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BurlingtonBertieFromBow · 04/09/2012 17:11

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

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hoodoo12345 · 04/10/2012 20:23

Will Trent.
gorgeous!

MrsSalvoMontalbano · 02/10/2012 18:36

Me too Grin

AnonymousBird · 02/10/2012 18:30

I am in love with Salvo Montalbano...

elkiedee · 01/10/2012 17:09

Rebus (Edinburgh, Ian Rankin)
Charlie Resnick (Nottingham, John Harvey)
Jack Taylor, Galway (Ken Bruen)
Alex Morrow, Glasgow (Denise Mina)

VI Warshawski, Chicago (Sara Paretsky)
Nick Stefanos, Washington DC (George Pelecanos)
Sharon McCone, San Francisco (Marcia Muller)
Carlotta Carlyle, Boston (Linda Barnes)

Erlendur, Reyjavik (Arnaldur Indridason)
Martin Beck, Sweden (Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo)

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LadyMargolotta · 01/10/2012 14:53

OnTheBottomWithAWomansWeekly I was desperate to call dd1 Esme, but a very close family member beat us to it!

LadyMargolotta · 01/10/2012 14:52

I?ve just got an Ian Rnakin book out of the library, starring John Rebus, so good to see him mentioned here!

OnTheBottomWithAWomansWeekly · 01/10/2012 14:52

Joe Pike (Elvis Cole's mate, strong and silent, such a cliche but mmm!)

My nephew's middle name is Sam after Sam Vimes.

His folks were considering Esmerelda for his sister's middle name (after Esmerelda Weatherwax) but went with something more usual instead! Smile

Sidonie · 01/10/2012 14:38

DI Hal Challis
Tess Monaghan
Fin Macleod

monal · 01/10/2012 14:05

Inspector Wexford
Albert Campion
Perry Mason, I must have read 30 of them in the last month. Hours of fun.
Miss Marple
Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg (in Fred Vargas' books, they push all my tormented detective buttons)

LadyMargolotta · 01/10/2012 13:52

Anyone mentioned George Gently? I haven't read any of the books but I adored the TV series.

LadyMargolotta · 01/10/2012 13:49

Another vote for Precious Ramotswe.

I'm not sure if Sam Vimes would consider himself a detective? He is first and foremost a Copper, even if he does happen to be the Commander of the Ankh Morpork Watch!

GooseyLoosey · 01/10/2012 13:46

Alber Campion in Margery Allingham's books.

Lancelottie · 01/10/2012 13:45

Oops, sorry, Copper!

UptoapointLordCopper · 01/10/2012 12:26

Lancelottie you have spoiled Falco for me now. Though he's always ahead of his time ... Grin

Leo35 · 30/09/2012 22:15

MN running slow. third time lucky (not previewing)

Rebus
Bernie Gunther
VI Warshawski
Jackson Brodie

TheFallenMadonna · 29/09/2012 23:22

Another in love with Peter Wimsey.

And I have a tendresse for Peter Pascoe (not so keen on his wife...)

My pre-teen crush was Joe Hardy Blush

Lancelottie · 29/09/2012 23:20

Nope, can't cope with Falco since I read a line that went something like 'he'd thought of a reasonable price and added a zero on the end' -- not in bloody Roman numerals he hadn't!

EdithJemima · 29/09/2012 23:12

Joined the Wimsey/Vane queue. And the embryonic Montalbano queue. And what about Foyle of Foyle's War?

UptoapointLordCopper · 16/09/2012 15:00

I like Kinky Friedman. Even been to see his band in a pub in Camden about a million years ago.

Geekster · 16/09/2012 12:12

Kinsey Millhone is my very favourite. Others include Mma Ramotswe, Tom Thorne and Jackson Brodie.

Craftymoo · 15/09/2012 23:12

Inspector Singh (Shamini Flint)
Dr Siri Paiboun (Colin Cotterill) - not strictly a detective I know, but close.

piprabbit · 15/09/2012 16:18

Has anyone else come across the idiosyncratic Kinky Friedman?
He owes a debt to Raymond Chandler. It gets confusing because Kinky's detective is also called Kinky Friedman.

GrumpyOldHorsewoman · 14/09/2012 22:48

Jackson Brodie - Love him as a gritty Yorkshireman in Edinburgh (TV versions), preferred to the books' setting of Cambridge. Edinburgh suits him better.
Lund and Meyer
I do like the Cumberbatch/Freeman Holmes and Watson. Mind you, I could listen to BC recite the phone book and think it was fascinating. I think the Conan Doyle stories were actually quite dark and Holmes a strange character and BC has that down. He doesn't ham him up, as others before him have tended to do.

MrsGuyOfGisbourne · 14/09/2012 15:04

and
Inspector Montalbano - swooooon Blush
Inspector Morse

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