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Who are your favorite mystery writers?

geneviv

geneviv

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Hi. Who's mysteries are the best? I'm wondering what other people are into.

I prefer Raymond Chandler, Josephine Tey, Dashiel Hammit, and Georges Simenon.
 
i would say my favorite is agatha christie

right now im halfway of red harvest by hammett, and im really liking it so far
 
Some of my favorites:
Rex Stout
A. Conan Doyle
John Dunning
Jonathan Gash

I'm sure I'll think of more later.
 
I really enjoy mysteries that take place in history or relate to it. This would include Elizabeth Peters, and someone Doherty. I think it's .... Peter Doherty? Oh gawd, I'm awful with names.. :rolleyes:
 
Periwinkle Pixy said:
I really enjoy mysteries that take place in history or relate to it. This would include Elizabeth Peters, and someone Doherty.
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Try Chaucer and the House of Fame by Philippa Morgan. It's a very good historical mystery with Geoffrey Chaucer as the main detective! I liked it.

As for my favorite mystery writer, I have to go with people who make me laugh, especially Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum books. I'm reading my first Carl Hiaasen right now and that's pretty fun too :D
 
KristoCat said:
As for my favorite mystery writer, I have to go with people who make me laugh, especially Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum books.
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I just recently read One for the Money, and I about died laughing all the way through the book. I usually don't like funny little mysteries like that, but I did enjoy that book and will more than likely read more of hers.

I also enjoy Sue Grafton's books...but I've only read to 'G' is for Gumshoe.
 
I've read only one Sue Grafton too, but it was E is for Evidence. I liked it too. If you like Sue Grafton's protagonist Kinsey, you might want to try Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series. It has a main character who is very, very similar, but there are strong Horror elements in it along with a mystery. The first one is called Guilty Pleasures.
 
really bizarre take on the genre

not too long ago, i read the hollow chocolate bunnies of the apocolpse..it was a lot of fun, and really strange..the basic premise is a string of murders in "toy city", which is a sort of gritty, noir-ish toytown, populated by gollies, dollies, clockwork toys and nursery rhyme characters...the nursery rhyme characters are being killed in rather gory fashion, one by one...the book is hilarious in that it is so self consciously a detective vovel..(*i.e, there is a maguffin, and it is referred to as 'the maguffin")

a great, funny post-modern spin on all the conventions of mysteries

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i read the hollow chocolate bunnies of the apocolpse..it was a lot of fun, and really strange..the basic premise is a string of murders in "toy city", which is a sort of gritty, noir-ish toytown, populated by gollies, dollies, clockwork toys and nursery rhyme characters...the nursery rhyme characters are being killed in rather gory fashion, one by one...the book is hilarious in that it is so self consciously a detective vovel..(*i.e, there is a maguffin, and it is referred to as 'the maguffin")
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That sounds good I will add it to my list.

I read the Hummingbird Wizard by Meredith Blevins last year and I enjoyed it. A woman has to get help from her former in-laws (a family of gypsies) to help her solve the mystery of her best friend's murder.
 
For a taste of the off-beat, I'd also highly recommend Eric Garcia's Rex series. His characters seem a lot more human, even though they are dinosaurs, than others I've encountered.
 
Robert Parker
A. Conan Doyle
Agatha Christie
Ruth Rendell
Colin Dexter
Earle Stanley Gardner
A nice mix.
 
In no particular order:
Ellery Queen
Rex Stout
Anthony Berkeley
Georgette Heyer
Agatha Christie
Ngiao Marsh
S.S Van Dine

Absolutely bloody marvelous!

~MonkeyCatcher~
 
In terms of "modern" crime,

I'd say Lawrence Block, especially the Bernie Rhodenbarr series, Ed McBain ( aka Evan Hunter - who sadly passed away recently ) and his 89th Precinct series.

And for something a bit off the wall, it has to be Carl Hiassen

Not forgetting the fine modern Scottish mystery writers such as Ian Rankin, Val McDermid and Christopher Brookmyre, of course :)
 
My favourite by a long way is Carol O'Connell, I also like Janet Evanovich (though I feel she's not quite as good as she once was), Minette Walters and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine.

I'm new so if I make any mistakes please let me know :)
 
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