Posted on 03/12/2019 7:13:19 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
All Detectives Sorted by Detective Last Name Adams detective of Coronado 9
Dan Adams – Portrayed by Rod Cameron
A former United States Navy intelligence officer turned private detective in the TV series Coronado 9. (Directed by Dann Cahn)
• TV series: 1960‑1961. Addison detective of Moonlighting (with Mattie Hayes)
David Addison – Portrayed by Bruce Willis
A fast-talking P.I. who partners with Mattie in the TV series Moonlighting. (Created by Glenn Gordon Caron)
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Just finished slam-reading Ross Macdonald’s novel “The Moving Target”.
Looking forward to seeing the movie, adaptation by novelist William Goldman, with Paul Newman as the P.I. Lew Harper.
Reading James Elroy’s “L.A. Confidential”, already saw the movie; reading the book is like waiting for a train-wreck...
Absolutely hooked on the Nick and Nora Charles movies, “The Thin Man”(Myrna Loy and William Powell).
Unfortunately, believe I’ve seen them all at least twice.
“I read little fiction”
Get some Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Or get any of the Black Mask anthologies. You’ll wonder how you managed to miss out.
Hammett put an end to foppish detective stories with the deacon whacking someone in the tea room, and he gave murder back to people who are really good at it. We owe hard boiled detective fiction and its spawn film noir to Hammett. If I’ve missed any story that he wrote it’s not for lack of trying.
Chandler is a great writer and his stories really deserve to be read. You miss out if you just watch movies based on his stories. I’ve picked up some unabridged audible books by Hammett and Chandler, and the Black Mask anthologies that include other writers of that era. Good stuff.
Lately I’ve picked up some Tony Hillerman books. His books feature Navajo tribal police detectives. He’s not a great writer like Hammett and Chandler, but I’m fascinated by the Navajo and Hopi culture that he builds his stories around.
Another interesting writer of detective fiction is the great GK Chesterton, which ought to surprise a lot of people who know him as an essayist and apologist. These are his Father Brown stories- the TV series Columbo was based on or inspired by Chesterton’s detective... although Father Brown was an English Catholic priest circa 1900 rather than a disheveled Italian American LAPD cop. What’s the same is the technique used.
Nero Wolfe.
Absolutely. Rockford, reportedly, was discovered while working as a gas station attendant. Can't help but like a series where the model year of Rockford's Firebird changed during chase scene in the same episode.
Had the really tough looking power wagon.
Deserved a couple more seasons.
Trust me, I know what I’m doing.
Garrett by Glenn Cook was my 1st choice also. Would like to see them do some movies. One of my favorite lines: “She was 16 when they all look good.”
Travis McGee and Spenser (with his cool “sidekick”, Hawk)
Garrett is by far my favorite, sort of Hammett meets Tolkein.
Glen Cook stated after “Wicked Bronze Ambition” that he had tow more stories in him. That was six years ago and Glen is 74. Doesn’t look good.
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you must be as old as I am.
It’s a tie between Rockford and Magnum.
Also Nancy Drew, of course. The books, not the TV stuff.
yeah Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden books for me. i love true crime now as an adult.
William Conrad was Marshal Matt Dillon on the Gunsmoke radio program.
William Powell and Myrna Lot as Nick and Nora Charles!!
You'd probably enjoy reading the Gordianus the Finder series by Stephen Saylor...its also set in ancient Rome.
I like Columbo but he was LAPD.
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