Thread #24498314 - /lit/

Anonymous

6/26/2025, 8:51:33 PM No.24498314

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Who is the GOAT detective?

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Anonymous

6/26/2025, 9:03:04 PM No.24498352

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Dr. Laszlo Kreizler
>pic related

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Anonymouṡ

6/26/2025, 9:16:59 PM No.24498386

>>24498314 (OP)
Suggestion for a top ten (I probably overlooked someone major) —

1. Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)

--- Power Gap ---

2. Philip Marlowe (Raymond Chandler)
3. Sam Spade (Dashiell Hammett)
4. Lord Peter Wimsey (Dorothy L. Sayers)
5. Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie)
6. Miss Marple (Agatha Christie)
7. C. Auguste Dupin (Edgar Allan Poe)
8. Jules Maigret (Georges Simenon)
9. Father Brown (G. K. Chesterton)
10. Brother Cadfael (Ellis Peters)

This is definitely ranking the characters rather than the quality of the books. (The Maltese Falcon is a better novel than anything Chandler wrote, and Agatha Christie is overall the worst writer on the list.)

Dupin ought perhaps to be lower (he isn't really all that fleshed out) but the stories were so seminal I bumped him up a bit.

Some people really love Gideon Fell (Dickson Carr) but I could never take him seriously.

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Anonymous

6/26/2025, 9:19:37 PM No.24498392

Sherlock Holmes is very contrived. The books stand for little more than the proposition that someone's assumptions are going to be right if the author makes it so.

Anonymous

6/26/2025, 9:20:32 PM No.24498395

I prefer Poirot. But I realized a few years ago, all Poirot books are basically love stories.

Anonymous

6/26/2025, 9:20:57 PM No.24498396

I’m interested in MODERN detective books, if such a thing exists.

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Anonymous

6/26/2025, 9:25:10 PM No.24498412

>>24498396
No such thing.

Anonymous

6/26/2025, 9:27:28 PM No.24498421

>>24498396
Cormoran Strike

Anonymous

6/26/2025, 9:28:08 PM No.24498422

>>24498386
How is Dupin better than Father Brown?

Anonymous

6/26/2025, 9:31:25 PM No.24498433

>>24498314 (OP)
Nestor Burma

Anonymous

6/26/2025, 9:32:26 PM No.24498434

>>24498396
Jo Nesbø's Harry Hole series.
Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander series

Anonymous

6/26/2025, 9:35:21 PM No.24498443

>>24498386
Would rank Brown higher but fundamentally correct

Anonymous

6/26/2025, 9:36:39 PM No.24498448

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Going by headwear it's judge Dee

Anonymous

6/26/2025, 9:57:32 PM No.24498489

>>24498352
Is this a good book, /lit/? I've only watched the first episode of the show (I'm sorry) and I didn't leave very impressed. Is it worth a shot?

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Anonymous

6/26/2025, 10:14:13 PM No.24498533

>>24498386
>The Maltese Falcon is a better novel than anything Chandler wrote
Cringe
>Agatha Christie is overall the worst writer on the list
Mega cringe

Anonymous

6/27/2025, 1:25:31 AM No.24499079

>>24498489
C Carr is a fiction writer and historical researcher/writer and does a solid job - so well that the Sir A. C. Doyle society excluded his Sherlock Holmes novel from the compilation and let him write a standalone book.

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Anonymous

6/27/2025, 1:30:38 AM No.24499091

sherlock shllingford

Anonymous

6/27/2025, 1:30:54 AM No.24499092