A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle
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A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle
Thy will be done, I nominate The Crying of Lot 49Quote:
Originally Posted by JBI
Wow, I am interested in Henning Mankell, also. I heard his books are very intense and well written.
Nominations so far:
1. Ficciones by Borges
2. No.1 Ladies Detective Agency
3. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiel Hammett
4. Storm Front by Jim Butcher
5. The Mystery of Marie Roget by Poe
6. The body in the Library by Agatha Christie
7. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
8. The White Lioness by Henning Mankell
9. A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
10. The Crying of Lot 49
We have the 10 nominations we need. Thank you everyone.
"And then there were none" has no detective so can I change it to "The Body in the Library" Agatha Christie which is a Miss Marple book
Can I please nominate 'The Tiger in the Smoke' by Margery Allingham? It explores the concept of 'The Science of Luck', basically the concept that there is a natural law which allows criminals intended on pursuing murder to succeed as long as their conscience remains 'hard'. At the moment their conscience emerges, and allows them to hesitate, the success of their criminal activity is doomed.
NOthing by Arthur Conan Doyle, please! I read all his stuff when I was about 12 so everything s too predictable now. Or Hammett's Maltese Falcon - also read in the past.
Agatha Christie is fine.
Jody Shields - The Fig eater , here's the plot in case no one has read/or heard of it: 'Fashion writer Shields (All That Glitters; A Stylish History) achieves atmospheric suspense in her compelling first novel, set in 1910 in Freud's Vienna. It opens on the discovery of the grisly murder of a young woman, Dora (whose name recalls Freud's famous patient), found strangled in a disreputable part of town. Two separate investigations are launched, only one official. The unnamed Inspector, with his assistant, Franz, begins with the physical evidence at the scene, and later watches for telltale signals from his initial crop of suspects: Dora's mother and father, her lover and his wife. He interprets their reactions by means of his growing familiarity with psychoanalysis, a pioneering work of which is excerpted throughout the novel. Meanwhile, his wife, Ersz?bet, an amateur painter and Hungarian mystic, begins her own clandestine inquiries with the help of a young English governess, Wally...' (From Amazon)
What about something by Raymond Chandler?
The talented Mr Ripley would be a very interesting study into the detective fiction because it breaks with the genre in several ways.
Emmy and Nad> Thanks for your nominations but we have already got the 10 nominations we need.
when will the poll start scher?
In April.Quote:
Originally Posted by eyemaker
Somewhat surprised that there isn't any from P D James in the nominations.
Look forward to see the polls.
I thought of suggesting one of her books but all the later and imo better ones are rather long and I thought the busy people on these Forums might have difficulty finding time to get through a longish book. Ditto Elizabeth George. Actually I was spoiled for choice in making suggestions (a favourite genre!) and plumped for Mankell in the hope of introducing him to a wider readership.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amethyst2010
I would like to reread Foucault's Pendulum... although I felt that The Name of the Rose was a far better book. The Poe selection is quite poor from what I recall: no where near as strong as Murders in the Rue Morgue or a number of others. It was concocted from excerpts from the papers about an actual murder and was dry in the extreme. None of the marvelous atmosphere that is so much Poe's strength.
Am I allowed to vote or does one need a certain number of posts? Thanks!
Yes, you can vote MissScarlett. You have already already that number! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by MissScarlett
StLukes> I would like to read Foucault's Pendulum as well but I voted for Maltese Falcon because it has been nominated so many times but never got chosen.