Who Was Your Favorite Private Detective, TV, Book, or Movies?

Linger & Look ^ | 03-12-2019 | Captain Peter Blood

[Lee Enfield]

Bogart’s Marlowe

[TChad]

My issue with current writers are they write slower than I read. It’s frustrating.

I rank Crais and Connelly several notches below MacDonald and Chandler. No one transports me from my real world into a fictional world quite like Chandler.

I have not read the recent books from Crais. I like his old books.

I should have mentioned K. C. Constantine.

[TChad]

I should have mentioned K. C. Constantine.

Constantine's lead character is a cop, so I guess he doesn't belong in this thread.

[Mozilla]

Mike Hammer Private Eye
Inspector Clouseau
Sherlock Holmes
Hercule Poirot
Dirty Harry Callahan
Nero Wolfe
Charlie Chan
Philip Marlowe
Miss Marple
Sam Spade

[Licensed-To-Carry]

I love all the Thin Man movies. Nick and Nora are great.

Hey, what's that man doing in my drawers.

[Truthoverpower]

Magnum pi

[Mozilla]

Jim Chee from the Tony Hillerman books.

[Pajamajan]

Columbo

[Equine1952]

Seems there are two types of detectives those that solve the puzzle and call the police and the ones that beat the hell out of or shoot the bad guy and then call the police. Me I like them both. I can go from Ellery Queen to Mike Hammer quite easily. Twisted plot and a bad guy to hate pretty much does it. Just keep them coming is all I ask.

[Silentgypsy]

Mike Hammer, Ellery Queen and Agatha Christie, thank you.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Just watched Humphrey Bogart in “The Big Sleep”, as well as “The Maltese Falcon”, etc.

Any Philip Marlowe actors - Bogart, Dick Powell, Robert Mitchum, etc.

Thin Man actors - William Powell

[TChad]

I should have mentioned Robert Parker’s Spenser. Parker was better than Connelly or Crais.

[Fledermaus]

I liked Mannix. Got to watch it if I was good back in the late 60’s as a kid. Lived in Southern Calif and it came on at 10 pm so it was past my bed time.

MeTV here in the Nashville area plays it 5 nights a week at 1 am.

[Fledermaus]

Drake made easy money. Didn’t seem to work too hard but was pretty much on call.

[Fledermaus]

It’s like 77 Sunset Strip.

Better theme song though. Written by Henry Mancini.

[Fledermaus]

Barnaby Jones was a spinoff from Cannon with Robert Conrad (narrator on The Fugitive).

[Fledermaus]

William Conrad.

I always get that wrong.

[imardmd1]

Sheldon "Shell" Scott (click here), the principal character of the three dozen detective novels written by Richard S. Prather (1921-2007), over a period of 37 years (1950-1987).

When I was in my twenties, could not wait to get my hands on the newest one. A man's man, a fair-haired fighter, standing for the right. The novels were well written and a gold mine for Prather, I suppose.

Book image never destroyed by making a movie out of it.

[BTerclinger]

"Rea Ipsa THIS, you prissy little b*tch!"

[dfwgator]

Him and Barnaby Jones. Great QM productions.

Or as Benny Hill used to say, "A Quinn Martin, Barton, Harton, Larton and Fargo Production"