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 Post subject: Best Fictional Private Eye / Sleuths (Novels / Books)?
PostPosted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 3:27 pm 
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Douglas Adam's Dirk Gently
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Robert R. McCammon's Dan Lambert (Gone South)
Ethan Coen's Hector Berlioz

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Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, of course.
Both in literature AND film!

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Kinky in a romp. I'll also throw in a plug for Jonathan Gash's Lovejoy.
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this thread should begin and end with Dasheill Hammett.

also, Firends of Eddie Coyle by Higgins. and James Ellroy.
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anybody ever read any of Ian Rankin's Rebus books? I always wondered if they were any good.

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the redworm Wrote:
this thread should begin and end with Dasheill Hammett.



Second that.

I like a couple of Pelecanos books.
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some alternatives:

dude from "motherless brooklyn" as anti-anti-hero detective.

kid from "the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime" (is that right?)
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kid from "the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime" (is that right?)


Nate the Great???

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Dan Brown, clearly.

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Not from a book, but definitely the hottest: Veronica Mars.

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 Post subject: Re: Best Fictional Private Eye / Sleuths (Novels / Books)?
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Great call! Also, Fletch.

np: Elvis Costello - "I Stand Accused"

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