Question of the Day

[ayoub]

In memory of Mickey Spillane...

Who is your favourite fictional detective, and why?

Comments

[inmyocean.livejournal.com]

Hercule Poirot. I was very much into Agatha Christie's books as a child and so his character was more well known to me. A curious little man who seemed to always remain quite calm and mild-mannered whilst solving mysetries and murders.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

I really liked him too, but Columbo would win it hands down for me... Something about a grubby, unassuming fellow with a mind like a steel trap kind of appeals to me :)

[kosta-pasta.livejournal.com]

Martin Beck from Locked Room by Pier Wal'o' and Mai Sheval (Sweden authors, awesome, full of humour, smart)

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Interesting... Never heard of him, or the authors... Fun reading?

[kosta-pasta.livejournal.com]

Very!
They were writing in 1970s-80s. Extremely smart and fun reading. Sweden writers, were popular out there. Highly recommend, short and fun. I'd recommend Frederick Forsyth... if you haven't read him - political detective story named (not sure how it called in English, I think The Day of Jackal)

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, The Day of the Jackal is a great book!

[voldelange.livejournal.com]

Hercule Poirot is my favorite,because he is a funny looking man,speaks french and is very very smart,which makes him an extraordinaire detective :)

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but he's French!

[voldelange.livejournal.com]

he is Belgian ;) he insists on that every time someone says he's French :P

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Ah.... Ok, I like him a little more now :P

[venusflesh.livejournal.com]

Nancy Drew! haha. I LOVED reading those books growing up... I used to read my mom's copies from when she was a kid. Nancy Drew was cool, smart, and hip. haha.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, Nancy Drew was awesome!

[reynold.livejournal.com]

Elementary dear Anarkian, elementary! 'Tis Sherlock Holmes!

Why? I literally grew up on Jeremy Brett playing the role of Holmes! In my small library I have a 3rd edition printing of Hound of the Baskervilles and several collections of his adventures.

Otherwise, I would have a hard time. I loved watching Perot and enjoyed reading Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys and Encyclopedia Brown.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yes, the greatest ever detective :D

Jeremy Brett as Holmes... Now that takes me back...

[poetbear.livejournal.com]

my favorite was Shell Scott. he was what
i thought i wanted to be in my twenties--
sort of a a refined version of Mike Hammer.
~paul

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Who wrote him?

[poetbear.livejournal.com]

you know, i can't remember. if i ever stumble
across one of the books i'll let you know. i
read all of them i could get my hands on when
i was in the Navy but i can't remember the
author, a title, or any details. same for
Mickey Spillaine, i remember Mike Hammer,
but that's about it.~paul

[lilgeorgiawhore.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Goooood question!

I'm going with Thursday Next. She's a very recent character (the first book in her series, The Eyre Affair, came out only five or six years ago) and she is, quite literally, a fictional detective. In the first book, Jane Eyre is kidnapped from Jane Eyre so Thursday has to go into the book to try and find out what happened and put her back in before reader's notice.

Thursday is sarcastic and witty, and the books themselves are the same way, with lots of word plays and metafiction going on. Really fun stuff.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a great book!

[lilgeorgiawhore.livejournal.com]

In one of the later books she becomes an apprentice to Miss Havisham from Great Expectations and helps lead a group therapy session in Wuthering Heights :-P

[rowanchey.livejournal.com]

Well, hard for me to say, as the only "detective" novels I've ever read were the books by James Patterson (with Alex Cross), and Nancy Drew...I loved her as a little girl! : )

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Patterson is good :)

I liked Nancy Drew too!

[avis-noctis.livejournal.com]

I've always liked Maigret. He is relentless and intense, which are characteristics that make mysteries all the more exciting.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Never read him.... Cool!

[dazzedelf.livejournal.com]

I have a couple faves... Magnum P.I, Macguyver, and the A-Team are my #1 favorite detectives. They were a staple of my childhood.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

All were great :D

Especially Macguyver :D

[crescent-fresh.livejournal.com]

adrian monk. 'cause he's the best there is.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Who?

[crescent-fresh.livejournal.com]

the obsessive compulsive detective. see the reply below this one.

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

On TV: Monk. OCD runs in my family, so...yeah. It's kind of like watching the male version of my mom solve mysteries.

On the page: Hm...this is harder. I think Amelia Peabody. She's the stereotypical Victorian woman who is inexplicably a feminist (if all you had to go by was modern fiction, you'd think every Victorian woman was a plucky, literate feminist who bucked the system), but I like her anyway. She has guts and a cool husband and likes to hit things with her parasol. I like Holmes, and all, but every time he's about to explain how he solved a case Doyle cuts to the department of backstory and it's like five chapters of stuff I don't really care about before I can get back to Holmes. Bah.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Cool!

[miriyasterling.livejournal.com]

Monk on TV is my favorite persona. I have OCD so I love watching him. It sounds sick I suppose but I always laugh to myself and think... "Well it could be worse!"

As far as books I'd have to say Lady Fidelma. I love the old celtic myserties.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

I havven't seen Monk, but I may need to look out for it :)

[shadowshape.livejournal.com]

Alison Dubois
heheh
love and blessed be
xxx

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

I remember her... I think...