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  • June 12, 2010 at 4:58 pm #40291
    Janin of Yen
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    Hm… no polls on this site?

    Who’s your favorite literary detective or detective author?

    I used to love Sherlock Holmes, but then I discovered Father Brown. Father Brown is awesome but there’s also Ellery Queen and I have never before read a detective story where the detective is personally involved in the crime in some way. Ellery is just so likable!! Father Brown is incredible, but he’s just an observer who notices the obvious and informs the proper people. Ellery gets stumped, gets frustrated, forms the wrong opinion, chooses sides, gets involved personally, and allows his feelings to cloud his judgment on occasion. In plain English, I think Ellery Queen has to be my favorite detective because he’s the most likable character, not necessarily the one with the best methods. (I hope this is where this goes. Maybe it should have been in authors…)

    EDIT: Oh, we do have polls. Sorry, I’m new here, I’ll figure it out. :)

    June 12, 2010 at 5:03 pm #45247
    Janin of Yen
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    Argh…. I knew I forgot some.

    Agatha Christie

    The detective invented by Edgar Allen Poe; whatever his name is.

    June 13, 2010 at 12:50 am #45248
    Alassiel
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    I haven’t read Father Brown, Ellery Queen, or the Hardy Boys, so I’m not much of a judge, but I love Sherlock Holmes!

    June 13, 2010 at 2:00 am #45249
    Alyosha
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    All and Sundry for me. I like Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown, Lord Peter Wimsey… Never got into Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys.

    But my favourite detectives ever are the boys (can’t remember all their names) in Detectives in Togas and Mystery of the Roman Ransom. :D

    June 14, 2010 at 2:07 pm #45250
    Sarah
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    Ooh, yes! I love the Roman books, Alyosha. :D 

    I don’t think I’ve read a whole book of any of the above-mentioned detectives. *hangs head* Does Freddy the Pig count? :P

    June 14, 2010 at 3:07 pm #45251
    Pip
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    Ditto to all and sundry. Except for Nancy Drew, who’s perfect all the time, and Hardy Boys; by the time Nancy had ruined my impression of Those Types Of Mysteries, I was too jaded to try Hardy Boys. My little sister is obsessed with them, though. I’m torn because I “got into” Sherlock Holmes, then discovered Father Brown, then Hercule Poirot. They’re all on about the same intellectual level, the only differences being crimes to solve, location, and idiosyncrasies.
    Much talk of Freddy the Pig…I’ve never read any of those books.

    June 16, 2010 at 2:16 pm #45252
    Adalin
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    Pip, I have to agree that Nancy Drew being so perfect all the time is really annoying.   However it didn’t stop me from reading all the Nancy Drew books out library has. 

    June 16, 2010 at 4:30 pm #45253
    Jordan
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    I’m personally a Holmes fan. I got to Father Brown afterwards and thought he didn’t hold a candle to Holmes. Don’t know why, but I just enjoyed Arthur Conan Doyle’s mysteries better.

    June 17, 2010 at 6:13 am #45254
    ForeverFan
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    Nancy Drew and Sherlock Holmes are my favourite literary detectives. I’ve tried Father Brown as well and generally speaking liked Sherlock Holmes much better. Possibly due to the fact many of the Father Brown stories I’ve read were murder mysteries, which I do not like, whereas Sherlock Holmes has some rather unusual and entertaining cases.

    June 21, 2010 at 3:33 pm #45255
    Janin of Yen
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    Hercule Poirot. The one I forgot along with Agatha Christie.

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