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Bogart. Regardless of it being Marlowe, Spade, or someone else... however since I think you're referring specifically to literary versions I'll say Marlowe since I have read most of Chandler's stories about him. A standalone detective book, of sorts, I very much enjoyed is Hammett's The Glass Key. I haven't read any of these books in years.
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Re: Who's your favourite private eye or detective character?
By far Barbara Havers in the Lynley stories by Elizabeth George. She wears dirty sweats, smokes and has a broken tooth. What more could you want in a PI? She also likes sweets.
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I am definately a Kinsey Millhone fan and Patricia Cornwall's Kay Scarpetta. I also have become a fan of Jody Brae who is new police detective character just created by Jonathan Cullen, but sure to get some traction with the second book. First one is The Ranks of Jody Brae.
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Re: Who's your favourite private eye or detective character?
Well, Gyles Brandreth has written/writes a series of mystery novels called "Oscar Wilde Mysteries," and I love that series, so my favorite detective character is.. Oscar Wilde.
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I also like Barbara Havers (@ Bluet). As you said, she's a 'real' person and that makes her pleasant.
I also like Robert Langdon (Dan Brown). Okay, I admit, he's not a real detective or something like that, just an ordinary professor, but he also solves difficult cases. I like his somehow neutral way of behaving. He seems to have no real vice and concentrates very much on the case he's working on. That's really charming.
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Re: Who's your favourite private eye or detective character?
Without a doubt, Joe Pickett, the unlikely game warden/cop/investigator in C. J. Box's books.
Box's writing appeals to a more regional crowd - the intermountain west - but his work is outstanding and largely unrecognized outside of this region. Box writes serious mystery/whodunit fiction, while, at the same time, including elements of absurdity that rival Carl Hiaasen's stories about South Florida.
Box's book Savage Run is easily one of the best mystery books I've ever read.
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Sorry to be so old school, but favorites would have to be Holmes & Poirot.
I don't read a lot of mysteries, but I agree with the old school. As far as the contemporary stuff, I enjoy Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody and Anderson McCall Smith's Mma Ramotse. BTW looking forward to the new one coming out March 22, anyone else on board?
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I've always been a big Spenser fan, I think mostly because his wit and sarcasm reminds me so much of myself. I like Tana French's characters, although I'm not sure if it's because they're good detectives per se or just because I like her writing. Lisa Lutz's Spellman family are always a good read.
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