I will try to find it although that sounds as if it will be rather challenging. Probably one of my problems was that I had read three or four of the books before I saw the movie and you know how that can distort a person’s view of a film.
I have always enjoyed Meyer’s take on historic detective fiction so I will give it another try, if possible.
I seem to recall the Bobbsey Twins were always hot to solve some mystery or another, and yet I never got to see how somebody with a knack for portentous shadows might have imagined them.
Probably the exec who was supposed to greenlight their project hanged himself after a week of internal wrestling over whether to do them or the Happy Hollisters.
I’d really like to see a good adaptation of Fredric Brown’s mysteries (heck, I’d like to see a good adaptation of his fantasy and science fiction, too. There haven’t been any yet. And, yes, I mean those, too.) I loved The Fabulous Clipjoint, which won him an Edgar. He followed it up with a series of Ed and Am Hunter novels of varying quality.
i think the Screaming Mimi, done properly, would make a great flick. It’s been done, but, from what I’ve read, not properly. There are other Brown mystery novel adaptations out there, but nothing very good, apparently.
I don’t remember which was which, I just remember one was pretty decent and the other truly awful with bad casting… the more I think on it, the more I think The Empty Copper Sea was the dud. Haven’t seen either one in years though.
I had such a huge crush on Travis McGee.
Wasn’t Frank Sinatra’s Tony Rome supposed to be Travis McGee (or at least a thinly disguised version)? And I seem to recall that Sidney Greenstreet played Nero Wolfe on the radio. I’ll have to do some research to verify this.
I, too, am a great Lawrence Block fan and am disappointed that there are not any decent portrayals of his detectives in film.
Sidney Greenstreet played him on radio. Apparently, you can purchase these, according to the Wolfe Pack website (scroll down for radio).
I’d like to see Roderick Alleyn and dear old Fox in the movies. I know there was a TV series, but I never saw it. Richard Jury and Melrose Plant would also be great, especially if they included the volatile Brian Macalvie.
Years ago I recommended a Travis McGee novel to a female friend who had asked me for a mystery book to snack on. I had a very extensive mystery book collection four moves ago.
She came back three days later and practically threw the book at me. I think the kindest thing she had to say was that McGee was a “loafing, sexist pig.” I tried to cover my tail (I was rather interested in her) by saying Meyer was really my hero.
I suppose I could have recommended Lew Archer, but I probably would have been called a “pervert.” A bunch of kinky stuff goes on in those Archer novels.
Well, gee, he is. Set in the 60’s when men were men, women were bimbos and Florida wasn’t one gret real estate development. 
BTW, which one did you give her?
On a couple of occasions in Travis McGee novels, there are characters named Lew - and they are jerks/losers. I always wondered if John McDonald was subtly slamming Ross MacDonald’s detective.
As for the “sexist pig” stuff, 'ol Trav was quite advanced for his time. And while he cut a wide swath through the available lassies, he suffered quite a bit of angst over it. 
Since there never was a definitive final Travis McGee novel, I was going to write one in which he develops melanoma (from all those years of adding to his deep-water tan), but cracks the case before kicking the bucket. Meyer inherits the Flush and holds a grandiose wake for Travis, in the midst of which the Flush is run over by a Carnival Cruise liner with all hands lost.
I think I’ll make it a screenplay.
Glen Cook’s Garret, a detective in a fantasy world, might be good if the special effects budget could handle it. Action, sexy ladies, magic, hordes of semi-humans.
No One has mentioned Dirk Gently (based upon the novels by Douglass Adams)
I think the two extant stories would make excellent movies… anyone care to postulate actors who could play him?
regards
FML
Garret is Archie Goodwin, more or less. The Dead Man is Wolfe. :eek:
I was crazy about him! I was always in search of a Travis McGee type but I knew no one could measure up. I could just picture him, tan and sexy with no shirt on, sitting on his boat drinking gin. I was a little bit heartbroken when John MacDonald died because it meant Travis McGee died too.
Nancy Drew made it into three films, but only one was called Nancy Drew - Detective. However, there was a TV series of Hardy Boy/Nancy Drew Mysteries, and the Disney TV program used to feature The Hardy Boys. The Dick Tracy films were fairly lamentable, up to and including the most recent with Warren Beatty.
I’d really like to see a series of Lucas Davenport films, or even Lincoln Rhyme.
I like the Kinsey Millhone mysteries by Sue Grafton. I don’t think I’ve read the up to the last letter yet. I’ve gotten out of mysteries and more into novels lately–but I’ve always thought the character was a great, interesting protagonist. A nicely odd life and look at things.
Both of them!! That’d be great. Who would play Davenport?
Back when I was young and dumb, I thought Selleck would’ve been a great McGee. (In those Magnum P.I. days.)
I remember talking to an aunt that liked the novels too and she said, “too bad that MacDonald died…”
I was shocked! But! But! No one called me and told me!
[Hi Jack]Another Travis McGee fan here 
John MacD was my favorite easy read author of the 70’s. I liked his stuff so much, I bought and saved one of his novels out for each of the sinkid births. For the first sinkid, I kept telling MrSin, wait, wait, we can go to the hospital after the next chapter, no, no, wait just one more chapter. Finally Sindad said he was going with or without me, ignored that statement, grabbed my book away and pushed me into the car. The hospital was 25 minutes away, it was snowing, and sinkid uno was born 21 minutes after I checked in. :eek: Nooooo I’m not an obsessive reader, why do you ask?
BTW anyone read his sci-fi book, The girl, the gold watch and everyting?
[bye Jack, stolen from another doper ]