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[romanajo123]

Mysteries!!

I started an online class today that’s on Mystery Writing. And now I’m kind of ( very) excited. I loved Nancy Drew/ Hardy Boys books a lot in middle school and recently discovered “ cozy mysteries “ . And , does catching part of Miss Marple on PBS or watching Ghostwriter as a kid count for anything? 😊

I’m curious: what are some of your fave mysteries? ( Any medium) 

Comments

[purplecat]

Hmm.. if you've not come across them yet, I'd recommend the Brother Cadfael mysteries (books and TV show), and the Lord Peter Wimsey novels.

[john_amend_all]

Let's see, some of my favourites are:

• Let's begin at the beginning: Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone is one of the earliest books that could be considered a detective novel, and still holds up well today. Of the adaptations I've seen, I prefer the 1996 version with Keeley Hawes and Greg Wise.
• The Wimsey books by Dorothy L. Sayers. The TV adaptations of Strong Poison and Have His Carcase with Edward Petherbridge are very faithful, as are the audio adaptations with Ian Carmichael.
• The Father Brown stories by G. K. Chesterton.
• Agatha Christie's Miss Marple mysteries, either as books or as the Joan Hickson television adaptations (I did a rewatch of them on this blog, 9 years ago by now).
• John Dickson Carr (and his less-than-opaque alias of Carter Dickson) has some good ones (including a few historical mysteries, and a couple that use time travel).
• For science-fictional mysteries, Isaac Asimov's Elijah Baley stories The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun. And Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man.

I've also been exploring the British Library's Crime Classics collection, as a way of discovering some lesser-known 1930s mysteries. I've definitely found some good ones in there.

[smallhobbit]

I'd recommend E C R Lorac and Cyril Hare.

[a_phoenixdragon]

I love odd mysteries. :D I loved The Cat Who... series, I am reading the Peculiar Crimes Units series right now - though I must admit I am picky about what mystery books I read. I grew up watching mystery shows and I read Encyclopedia Brown and Nancy Drew as well as the Hardy Boys books. So I definitely have a taste for a good mystery. :D

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