NationStates Jolt Archive

Who's top of the heap?

I used to read alot of Tony Hillerman stuff, but not for several years now.

"Down these streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is not himself tarnished nor afraid..."

Answer your question?

I enjoyed Ellery Queen in my youth.

I almost included Queen as a poll option, but I figured the more specific "others" was a better use of space. Oh, yeah. I mean Brit and American in style. I'm not trying to encourage any cross-pond hate-fests.

Charles Todd's A Test of Wills is possibly the best mystery i've ever read. I need to get the rest of the series.

I almost included Queen as a poll option, but I figured the more specific "others" was a better use of space.

Let us not forget that Ellery Queen 'himself' is best described by the term 'others'.

"Down these streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is not himself tarnished nor afraid..."

Answer your question?

The one I would have picked was:

"It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window."

Why pick one, for a variety:
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Robert Adams
Neuromancer et al William Gibsons cyber mysteries
Father Cadfael mysteries by Ellis Peters

Why pick one, for a variety:
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Robert Adams


Do you live in an alternative reality where Douglas Adams wrote the Horseclans series of novels?

Probably the best single book is Umberto Eco's "The name of the Rose".
I voted for Dorothy L Sayers' Lord Peter Whimsey (sp?) series as I read them all as a child.

I'd say Lord Darcy series by Randall Garrett.

I'm the only Hillerman fan. :( :( :(

Carol Plum-Ucci.

The parlour room crowd seems to be running away with this thing.

I picked Agatha Christie, because while I like others, none really compare, as far as I'm concerned.

I love Sayers' Peter Wimsey books.