best fictional detective?

[chilango]

Swallow

 

[starfish]

 

[petee]

i did love Devil In A Blue Dress the movie

 

[discokermit]

Eddie Shoestring should get a mention.

yes.

 

[quiet guy]

Harry Hole by Jo Nesbo. A man with so many flaws.

 

[DaveCinzano]

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Doesn't do much detecting TBF

 

[Ax^]

3 pages in really

 

[discokermit]

ta for the earworm.

 

[Santino]

Swallow

Have you ever spotted Flint in a Swallow episode?

 

[Sprocket.]

Louie Knight, private eye, in the Aberystwyth noir novels by Malcolm Pryce. Hilarious with serious bits. Set in a alternative universe Wales. Druids are the power mad villains amongst others. Well worth reading.

 

[8115]

Adam Dalgliesh had the sex appeal but Cordelia Gray was cooler by a margin.

 

[Aladdin]

I've taken a shine to Kari Sorjonen in Bordertown.

 

[Sprocket.]

Oh and Marge Gunderson in Fargo.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Oh and Marge Gunderson in Fargo.

You betcha

 

[Kaka Tim]

saga noren from the bridge is def up there.
and columbo obvs

 

[Trencher]

Inspector Pekkala from the series by Sam Eastland. A man who used to be the Tsar's personal investigator who now works for Stalin. He even has a sidekick who is an NKVD Major. Good plots and an interesting perspective on the history of the times.

 

[bellaozzydog]

I do like a good Rebus investigation

so after reading 22 rebus books in a row at work I decided to watch the TV series and ordered a dvd (from holland only available option)

each episodeis an amalgamation of a number of books an starting with John Hannah is ruining my head, I’ve turned to white wine to cope

 

[bellaozzydog]

so after reading 22 rebus books in a row at work I decided to watch the TV series and ordered a dvd (from holland only available option)

each episodeis an amalgamation of a number of books an starting with John Hannah is ruining my head, I’ve turned to white wine to cope

i’m force drinking through Hannah in the hope Stott arrives and says it’s safe to sleep

 

[bellaozzydog]

Argh



Still time for the late night offie

 

[Roadkill]

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Not for me, I'm afraid. To me, Miss Marple will always be:

I watched them all in lockdown, in most cases for the first time since my dad used to like them in the 80s. They were brilliantly done.

After Margaret Rutherford and Joan Hickson, the Geraldine McEwen version doesn't really seem necessary.

 

[HAL9000]

Spender

 

[Pickman's model]

Carnacki the ghost-finder

 

[BlanketAddict]

Swallow

From Norfolk?!

Tony Hares (RIP) missed a trick there.

 

[felixthecat]

William of Baskerville

I think you and me have the same favourite book

 

[BlanketAddict]

Columbo.

The King of hoist petarding!

 

[DaveCinzano]

Columbo.

The King of hoist petarding!

Petard hoisting, shurely

 

[BlanketAddict]

Petard hoisting, shurely

I stand corrected, and don't call me Shurely

 

[Artaxerxes]

Cracker

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[brogdale]

Shardlake.