# Please Recommend a New Detective Series

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**Created:** [November 4, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-new-detective-series/471132 "2008-11-04T20:12:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![tigandmax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@tigandmax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tigandmax)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-new-detective-series/471132/1 "2008-11-04T20:12:38Z")

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I have read all of the novels by Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, and now wonder what I will read next. Can anyone recommend additional authors to me that are similar to Christie and Sayers? Thanks in advance for your help!

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**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-new-detective-series/471132/2 "2008-11-04T20:20:42Z")

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Some authors that remind me somewhat of Christie:

Ngaio Marsh  
Margery Allingham (VERY hit or miss for me)  
Patricia Wentworth  
John Dickson Carr  
Nicholas Blake

Most of these can be read in any order.  
The only author who has ever really reminded me of Sayers is Sally Wright, starting with _Publish & Perish_.  
If you can say what you find appealing about Christie and Sayers, I might be able to suggest other authors, too.

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**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-new-detective-series/471132/3 "2008-11-04T20:30:39Z")

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> [@jsgoddess](#):
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> Some authors that remind me somewhat of Christie:
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> Ngaio Marsh
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> (snip)

This would be my suggestion for somebody jonesing for Sayers and Christie. If you have no prejudice against American detective fiction, I’d suggest giving Rex Stout a try, and maybe Ellery Queen (probably nothing after 1960 for Queen).

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-new-detective-series/471132/4 "2008-11-04T20:31:45Z")

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Kinky Friedman 😃

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**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-new-detective-series/471132/5 "2008-11-04T20:32:49Z")

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> [@silenus](#):
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> Kinky Friedman 😃

You are a bad, bad, man.

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-new-detective-series/471132/6 "2008-11-04T20:34:21Z")

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Anything I could say is probably already covered in these threads:

[Is there anything I can read that will REALLY fill in for Peter Wimsey?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=449628)

[Recommend British Murder Mysteries](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=324315)

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-new-detective-series/471132/7 "2008-11-05T00:59:42Z")

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Another [detective fiction suggestions thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=418063&highlight=detective).

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**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-new-detective-series/471132/8 "2008-11-05T01:09:59Z")

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J.A. Jance. I like the Joanna Brady mysteries. The J.P. Beaumont novels are also good.