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 Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:22 am
I know we're got Agatha Christie readers in this forum, and I've sure if you've read mysteries you're read at least one of the original Sherlock Holmes stories.
I was wondering if anyone had read anything else that would be considered a "classic" and what you thought. For example, has anyone read the detective stories by Edgar Allen Poe? How about anything by Dorothy Sayers? The Nero Wolfe books by Rex Stout? Do you even know whom I'm talking about?
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Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:55 pm
I've read one of the detective stories by Poe: "The Purloined Letter". It was quite interesting, but rather knarled, due to his writing style. The continual references to people that are never named (for the sake of their reputation) makes the tale a good deal more confusing than the boiled down version is.
I've looked at stuff by Dorothy Sayers, but never read anything, mostly due to the fact that I've heard the style of writing is more 'twisted' than necessary.
So far, the original Sherlock Holmes stories remain my favourites in the genre of mystery.
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:54 am
I enjoyed the Lord Peter Whimsy books by Sayers, but she was incredibly cerebral in her style. She was appently a highly educated woman, and expected her readers to be the same. I know one of the short stories had a solution that relied on a working knowledge of French grammar. No translation of the crucial dialog was provided in the book. It made me want to scream! I read the books when I was in the mood to work at my puzzles, that's for sure.
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 6:00 am
My great-grandfather actually gave me a box of books that had belonged to my great-grandmother (who died when I was a baby). In it was nothing but old mysteries dated as far back as the 1920s and 1930s. At first I just accepted them, even though I hadn't read mysteries in years. But one day, out of boredom, I switched from my usual genre. Out of all the books, the ones that I really absorbed were by an author of the name of "Ellery Queen". They were really awesome stories about a detective who was also the son of a detective. (Almost like Nancy Drew, but more mature and from a male perspective.) To this day, I scrounge used book sales for his name in hopes that I can find some reprints or something. After all, my copies are so old I'm afraid the pages will break, lol.
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 3:15 pm
You know, I think there is still in print a magazine called "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" which is a lot like sci-fi's "Analog" for the mystery crowd. I'd forgotten that name in my list of classics. Thanks for sharing!
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Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 6:22 pm
I love the Arsene Lupin books by Maurice LeBlanc. I heard about them after they made the Sherlock Holmes PC game with Lupin in it. He's a very intelligent criminal who always tricks the police and detectives, but sometimes he solves a murder or huge theft. They were written around the 1910's like the Holmes stories.
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 10:41 am
Jules127 I love the Arsene Lupin books by Maurice LeBlanc. I heard about them after they made the Sherlock Holmes PC game with Lupin in it. He's a very intelligent criminal who always tricks the police and detectives, but sometimes he solves a murder or huge theft. They were written around the 1910's like the Holmes stories. Cool! I hadn't heard of that series before. I thought Poe was the closest thing to a contempory detective write that Conan Doyle had. Where did you find them?
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:04 pm
I've read Poe's work and I agree with GirlPuck that there were to many references in it to people I didn't know. The Murder of Marie Roget was even more horrible to read with it's long winded explanations of how anybody with a brain could have figured it out.
I've read Conan Doyle's early works (everything up till the Death of Sherlock Holmes) and I like them. I love the character of Holmes, though I do find it unfortunate that many of the plots have been used by other authors later on. Means that I often know what'll happen at the beginning, because it's similar to something I already know.
My favourite is still Agatha Christie. I especially love Poirot and Miss Marple.
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:08 pm
I love mystery novels, but my favourites have to be the Sherlock Holmes series. I'm getting into Agatha Christie right now, and I loved Poe's purloined letter.
Speaking of Ellery Queen, my grandma let me take one of her Ellery Queen books lately, quite good actually...
Of course I also love Arsene Lupin, I've been reading it to improve my french but if anyone is interested project Gutenberg has an english translation online.
here is the link
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6133/6133-h/6133-h.htm
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:11 pm
ah I love the Sherlock Holmes, he's the best ever I love him to death..oh and watson so do not get me started on watson he hilirous and brilliant ah yea I've almost read all of the books -coming close to it - so if anyone needs help or needs some good reccommationed for sherlock holmes i'll be happy to help
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