Dirty harry or batman
Lucas Davenport - from John Sanford’s Prey novels.
Davenport is relentless and can’t be intimidated into quitting.
Everyone’s already said the first few detectives that came to mind, so… for me, how about Kim Possible? (I know; it’d be her first murder case.)
Adam Dalgliesh for me, too!
Would anyone want Kinsey Milhone?
Ukelele Ike, how old does one have to be to remember “The Thinking Machine”? I read that “Cell 13” story as a kid, loved it.
No one picks Poirot? He’d not only get the murderer without fail, he’d likely tick off and annoy everyone else involved, so that’s a plus,I’d think.
Thomas Magnum.
For that, fake my murder, then steal his ride.
Interestingly, he died about the same time as the 6th Nero Wolfe book was coming out, so he would never have gotten to know that.
Good point, But Sherlock Holmes was around- and yes, some stories there are meh, but there are certainly more than that original in the canon.
I’d go for either of those two. I was SO depressed that Sue Grafton died before ‘Z.’
How about Hitchcock Sewell?
Fair enough, I just thought your example to be amusing. I knew that they were somewhat overlapping but I had to look it up to get specifics. I was actually thinking that he had died a bit earlier and was going to point out that he couldn’t have read any of it.
I was just amused by the idea that he could have been reading Nero Wolfe, but even so, he still would never have seen more than 6 plots from Rex Stout.
If there is anyone I would like on my side, It would be Jim Rockford.
“The Problem of Cell 13” was published over fifty years before I was born, so…uhhhh…One hundred and twenty-two?
Oh, didn’t think the story was THAT old, didn’t pay attention to that when I was 14.
And, my apologies, Bayaker.
Master Shake (before he got tired of that assignation after ATHF episode #3, anyway)
Lemming of the BDA
Sgt. “I’m a little bit sad and lonely, and my baby’s gone away” Duckie
Inspector “There’s been a murder” Muffin
Porfiry Petrovich
Magnum P.I.
And of course, my go-to…Hank Quinlan
Futrelle’s stuff’s public domain, so I recently went back and read a bunch, having also loved “Cell 13” as a youngster. (Guessing that one story must be frequently anthologized?) The other Thinking Machine stories are hit or miss in terms of clever plotting (versus ridiculous plotting), though I remember usually enjoying the dialogue given to Hutchison Hatch, Reporter. The novel Elusive Isabel is a weird but kind of fun pre-WWI “can war be averted?” espionage tale, vaguely reminiscent of The 39 Steps – though much sillier and more romantic.
In looking for his Project Gutenberg page, I discovered that Futrelle died on the Titanic. :eek:
Jacques Futrelle went down on the Titanic. No shit.
Whoops. Sorry, snoe.
Another vote for the little Belgian, mes amis. But always with the Capt. Hastings, non?
Newbie here. I joined not only because DETECTIVES! But because there was an allusion by pkbites to one of the greatest suspense movies EVER, “The Day of the Jackal”!