Curiosity: who are your favorite detectives?

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:02 am

Whoever it was who Elvis Costello was watching. I don't know their names.

The detective in the Woody Allen story who's looking for God. I don't know his name either. I like the Pope too (in the story). The Pope likes fettucine.

seisflutes · Post by **seisflutes** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 3:11 am

In no particular order, book detectives:
Sherlock Holmes
Spenser
Joe Leaphorn
Sid Halley
Adam Dalgliesh
Kay Scarpetta
Duncan Kincaid
Nero Wolfe
Thursday Next (is she a detective? Well, I like her)

TV detective:
Shawn Spencer

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 4:24 am

Check out the Kenzie and Gennaro novels by Dennis Lehane. The new movie Gone Baby, Gone is from one of the novels.
Do read them in order. In addition to the main story of each novel, there's a back story about the two detectives that really should be followed from start to finish. These are wonderfully gritty novels from the author of Mystic River. Great characters and great atmospheric feel for the back neighborhoods of Boston.

http://www.dennislehanebooks.com/books/

Sliabh Luachra · Post by **Sliabh Luachra** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 5:00 am

Sherlock Holmes

Inspector Morse

Harry Dresdan

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:55 am

Sherlock Holmes
Harry Bosch (can't believe someone's not listed Bosch yet!)
Zander Gage (protagonist of my own detective novellas)

and....

Greg House...

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:56 am

I forgot the TV detectives!

Sam Tyler & Gene Hunt from "Life on Mars".

Monk - but it REALLY dropped off when they fired Bett Thing.

Miss Marple - but the Joan Hickson one, NOT Geraldine McEwan.

The characters in "Without a Trace"

Yer woman in "Medium", despite the fact that Patricia Arquette can be (and often is) REALLY irritating. As she was in "Holes".

I have the firm conviction that Elvis Costello was thinking of Vaughn and Bodie from "The Professionals" when he was singing "Watching the Detectives". I may be wrong, but that is what I choose to believe.

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:00 am

TV - Rosemary & Thyme

djm

swizzlestick · Post by **swizzlestick** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 10:49 am

Tyler Morris wrote:Sherlock Holmes
Harry Bosch (can't believe someone's not listed Bosch yet!)
Zander Gage (protagonist of my own detective novellas)

and....

Greg House...

That's true! I had forgotten that the House character is roughly based on Sherlock Homes.

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:56 pm

My favourite fictional detective of all is Cornfed.

evenstr · Post by **evenstr** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:34 pm

I haven't read many detective stories in awhile. So I'm gonna have to go with Nancy Drew (the originals, I hate the new ones), and for TV, the guys on Law and Order (original, SVU, and CI).

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:36 pm

OMFG! Remember the Bobbsey Twins? Yarg!

I mentioned to my wife the dearth of Irish detectives.
She immediately replied with Murphy's Law, starring James Nesbit.

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 6:13 pm

Inspector Clouseau

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 6:33 pm

Lambchop wrote:Inspector Clouseau

You beat me to it. Wassup with all these people? There's absolutely NO competition!

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 6:53 pm

Off course, wih jes needed sumbuddy to rimmind oos.

djm

falkbeer · Post by **falkbeer** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:43 pm

I´d say:

Columbo
Kojak
Philip Marlow
Matin Beck
Morse