best fictional detective?

[ska invita]

Scooby Doo

 

[Little Piranha]

Being serious Inspector Borlu from The City and the City and Meyer Landsman from The Yiddish Policeman's Union are both brilliant, especially Landsman if you like the hard-bitten, hard drinking type. I really enjoy the parallel but similar universes in both.

But if I'm sad/hungover/pmt-ing pretty hard there's nothing like a bit of Suchet Poirot or Jonathan Creek. So stupid, so comforting.

 

[Idris2002]

Watched an ep of Hazell last night - I'd never heard of it, but it's not bad at all.

Ex-cop Cockney detective mixes it up with the toffs.

Everything you never knew you wanted to know about Hazell

The time, the place: ITV, early seventies. Neither seen nor heard of since until UK Gold picked it up last year for repeats. And, boy, did it look…

www.heraldscotland.com

 

[rasputin]

Dr. Gideon Fell and Sir Henry Merrivale from the locked room murder mysteries by John Dickson Carr.

 

[Sue]

Watched an ep of Hazell last night - I'd never heard of it, but it's not bad at all.

Ex-cop Cockney detective mixes it up with the toffs.

Everything you never knew you wanted to know about Hazell

The time, the place: ITV, early seventies. Neither seen nor heard of since until UK Gold picked it up last year for repeats. And, boy, did it look…

www.heraldscotland.com

Terry Venables? That's random...

 

[Idris2002]

Terry Venables? That's random...

It was good. Something that was totally of its time ("you know Portugal's gone bolshie, don't you") but which still holds up all the same.

 

[Roadkill]

But if I'm sad/hungover/pmt-ing pretty hard there's nothing like a bit of Suchet Poirot or Jonathan Creek. So stupid, so comforting.

I'm not so fond of Jonathan Creek, but David Suchet's Poirot would be high on my list of favourite fictional detectives. Also:

 

[flypanam]

Boris Akunin's Erast Fandorian is an excellent series set in the late 19th century Russia but the plots encompass the globe. Very readable. But not forgetting

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[Mogden]

Lovejoy

Morse

Paul Temple

 

[Smokeandsteam]

 

[rubbershoes]

Paul Temple

and Steve

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

 

[JimW]

Enjoyed van Gulik's Judge Dee mysteries when I was a student. not sure if they're still in print but they had them all in the college library. Medieval China setting a bit different, part based on actual novels of the time IIRC.
See there' a fan site: Judge Dee / Robert van Gulik

 

[sideboob]

 

[krtek a houby]

Boris Akunin's Erast Fandorian is an excellent series set in the late 19th century Russia but the plots encompass the globe. Very readable. But not forgetting

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Now considered as a "terrorist"!


(Akunin, not Lansebury)

Russia adds writer Boris Akunin to terrorist list over criticism of war

Popular author charged for allegedly ‘spreading fake information’ on Russian army amid crackdown on dissent

www.theguardian.com

 

[A380]

Possibly the best detective; unequivocally the best theme tune.




Turn it up loud

 

[hitmouse]

Since I can't see it mentioned yet, I feel like Vimes has to deserve at least a mention.

Also, I really rate Ellroy's police books.

 

[flypanam]

Jean Patrick Manchette’s Eugene Tarpin in No Room in the Morgue is the don of French Noir detectives written by a fantastic leftist writer.

 

[DaveCinzano]

For your consideration:

 

[DaveCinzano]

“Please don't be an idiot. Thank you.”

 

[TopCat]

yes.

Pajama top boy

 

[TopCat]

Scooby Doo

Moltabano borrowed all their plots

 

[bellaozzydog]

Keen on Boshe as well, both in the books and series

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Hunch, as played by Tony Huncharella.



"There's your murderer."

"Are you sure, Hunch? How do you know?"

"Uh, something about his hair... I dunno."

 

[Gromit]

Is naming a collective allowed?

The Thursday Murder Club are my favourites.

Not because of any grand detective skills or deviousness.

 

[krtek a houby]

Akunin now a "foreign agent"

Boris Akunin: Russia designates author ‘foreign agent’

The Kremlin labels the bestselling author, Boris Akunin, a foreign agent over his stance on Ukraine.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Elpenor]

Best modern detective I think