Not in but +1


Lovecraft has many short stories that would, technically, classify as "detective" stories, in fact I'm pretty sure most of them would.

Really intering giveaway I'm in too.


I like reading Dorothy L Sayers mysteries with Lord Peter Wimsey.

They are much more demanding and not so obvious as alot if other writters.


Agatha created great characters but plots were simplistic and often repetitive.

The BUMP is afoot! Not in, but thanks and +1 for the generosity :-)

Not in, since I already have it.

But my favourite TV crime series is Castle ! (and the first three Nikki Heat books by 'Richard Castle' aren't bad either. Pulp-crime novels, of course, but fun to read)

Favourite crime author is Arthur Conan Doyle for his Sherlock Holmes books, closely followed by Agatha Christie for Miss Marple (Hercule Poirot is also fun to read, but I like Miss Marple more).

Favourite Sherlock Holmes actors: Basil Rathbone and Robert Downey Jr. VERY different takes on the great detective, but both very good.

I'll recommend Edgar Allen Poe too. According to my literature courses he was the the one who invented/popularized mystery stories. I'd also like to recommend the show Monk; which is about a modern detective with OCD and phobias with a great attention to detail and the ability to make Holmes-esque deductions.

Sadly, I haven't read most of the classics, but I did enjoy the series with Cumberbatch and the new movies!

And I like myself some good humour in detective stories, so I enjoyed Monk and Psych really well :D

Hi,
i am also a big fan of crime stories.
Have read all of the once you mentioned.
You should try Dorothy L. Sayers, Martha Grimes, Minette Walters, Elizabeth George, P.D. James.....
mmmmh, the best authors for crime stories are women.
Sherlock, ok i enjoyed Cumberbatch but the stories are lame...(they were the first)

anyway, +1 not in

Yes. It's a tie-in. Of course Rick Castle doesn't exist in real life, but they still published the books under his name.

I already have the game so I would have just ended up giving it away or trying to get a trade for it. Since it's a timed release though I'm gonna sit out, +1 and thanks for the generosity.

I'm in for Thespian* for mentioning some awesome writers in his post :]

My favorite is both a book and a movie, Murder on the Orient Express (David Suchet version).

Just a quick thank you to all who have posted here so far!

I didn't have time yet to answer all of the suggestions (and will only have it in the end of the giveaway, this weekend will be one of those too-busy-to-be-on-the-PC kind of weekends) but I promise I will!

Two quick things:
-If anybody finds this post in the depths of the forum, please bump it a bit, so more people can participate!
- You can participate in place of another user (meaning, if you are chosen you can pass it to other user who participated).

Still not in, but if we go for movies :

- "Without a Clue" and "Murder by Death" are two magnificent parodies of sleuthing tales. "Without a Clue" is less straightforward absurd, and even though a Holmes parody in which Holmes (Michael Caine, brilliant) is a dimwit and Watson (Ben Kingsley, brilliant) is the actual brain behind the investingations, it is still, for some reason, the most faithful adaptation in my eyes : something just feels very right in the atmosphere, the acting, etc...

- As I like the cliché of recluse detectives, one of my favorite movies is "The Zero Effect" with Ben Stiller, Bill Pullman and Kim 'Brazil' Dickens. It takes the cliché of high-detective-skills-low-social-skills to an extreme.

Also, one of the best detective miniseries I've seen has supernatural elements : it's a japanese animated series (or a comics) called "deathnote" and, if you haven't heard of it, is about a typically atypical genius recluse detective trying to outsmart a very clever (increasingly sociopathic) vigilante with a huge god complex and a magical notebook that kills at a distance whoever's name is being written in it. It's a thrilling, complex story, with lots of complicated Dupin-like reasonings ("if we do that, he'll think this, and do this, for us to think that, but we'll do that, to for him to do this, and, oh, damn, he had anticipated that").

I almost forgot another little book I loved: The Manual of Detection, first (and so far the only) novel by Jedediah Berry. Give it a try ;)