Quote: Nil Putters @ July 15 2009, 11:05 AM BST2: Poirot (David Suchet's)
Oh yes, defo! Or in the books. I don't like Peter Ustinov's so much.
Best fictional detectives? Page 2
I don't mind Ustinov, Finney can f**k right off though.
4: Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford's) 
Never seen Finney, which I guess may be due to my mum's Poirot-actor censorship!
Ha!
Quote: Griff @ July 15 2009, 11:29 AM BSTIt's gotta be Morse. The TV series was sublime, the books are even better.
I only read one, when he was in hospital and looking into a historical case or somesuch. Didn't really fire me up.
I do not read much detective fiction, but I do enjoy Leslie Thomas' Dangerous Davies stories. The Peter Davison TV series is not so hot. I never saw Bernard Cribbins in the role, though I imagine he would have been pretty good.
I am mainly interested in detective fiction as a vehicle for telling other stories, so I will endorse Griff's call on Sam Vimes. For the same reason I enjoy historical detective fiction, and C.J. Sansom's Matthew Shardlake series is as good as it gets.
Foyle's War is possibly the best TV series ever about the home front, and Michaeal Kitchen's Christopher Foyle is a great character; he behaves in the way we would all like to think we would behave in the same circumstances, but probably wouldn't.
Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes is an astonishing performance, as is David Suchet's Poirot.
Columbo!
Now if only some one would make an elephant based sequel...
Quote: sootyj @ July 15 2009, 11:50 AM BSTColumbo!
Now if only some one would make an elephant based sequel...
He did seem realistically cadaverous and opium raddled.
One of my favourite gags in the Sandman, was in his library of unwritten books was Conan Doyle's
"The concionse of Sherlock Holmes,"
Quote: sootyj @ July 15 2009, 11:54 AM BSTOne of my favourite gags in the Sandman, was in his library of unwritten books was Conan Doyle's
"The concionse of Sherlock Holmes,"
? Gaiman's Sandman???
Yes it's full of sight gags.
I like Edmund Crispin's Gervase Finn character. The usual eccentric, absent-minded Oxford don, but plenty of humour and a knowing awareness that he's in a novel.
And (comedy connection), Edmund Crispin wrote the score for many Carry On films under his real name of (Robert) Bruce Montgomery.
Quote: sootyj @ July 15 2009, 12:01 PM BSTYes it's full of sight gags.
Never noticed that. Great series though, I'm trying to complete my collection. Damn my lack of funds!
Well when you get the funds you could always get the commentaries.
Quote: sootyj @ July 15 2009, 12:06 PM BSTou could always get the commentaries.
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