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    Who is your favorite detective?

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    Post by Supernova Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:32 pm

    From TV, books, movies, whatever, who is your favorite detective in the fictional world?


    My favorite, hands down, is Columbo, I love watching him, he is just so funny, and he's a different kind of detective altogether because he doesn't carry a gun, he very rarely ever loses his temper, he doesn't do the bad cop thing, he just acts like a dumb cop who doesn't know too much and is always doing something weird but he's smart and he always catches his man, or woman.

    Now something I find interesting, a lot of people say that Sherlock Holmes is the best detective, obviously because he was really the first established literary detective and he had such unusual methods of doing everything, his is a legacy that will last forever. No doubt as far as detectives go he's brilliant, but I do find him overrated...but oddly enough, even though Goren from Law and Order: Criminal Intent was modeled after Sherlock Holmes, a lot of his behavior reminds me of Columbo.

    And in fact there was one episode of CI where Goren tricks the murderer into staying up all night tearing apart his garage looking for a tooth cap belonging to the guy he killed, and he can't find it because there isn't one, but his admission still gets him arrested. And likewise I found out there was an episode of Columbo from the 70s where he did something very similar, telling the killer that the victim's contact lens was knocked loose during her attack and wherever it is, that's where the body was stored, so he breaks into a closed city garage to break into his car trunk and find it. So it seems Bobby from CI is modeled after two great fictional detectives.
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    Post by wants2laugh Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:38 pm

    book wise.. Alex Cross... by james patterson

    tv wise... i would say Lenny Briscoe and John Munch--- they had the best lines!

    was trying to think of a movie detective... but the only one i could think of was Detective John McClain.... "yippi kiyay MFer" LOL
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    Post by Cheaps Mon Jun 11, 2012 7:14 pm

    Alonzo Harris (Training Day)
    Alex Cross (James Patterson books)
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    Post by captainbryce Mon Jun 11, 2012 7:24 pm

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    Post by Shale Mon Jun 11, 2012 7:35 pm

    In books - Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin by Rex Stout. Set in NY of the 1940s.

    TV - Well, I liked the short lived show Nero Wolfe (1981) with Lee Horsly & William Conrad
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    But, since that didn't take off...

    Sherlock Holmes, especially Jeremy Brett

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    Post by Alan Smithee Mon Jun 11, 2012 7:54 pm

    I guess I have to go with the younger Columbo.
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    Post by Nystyle709 Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:00 pm

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    Nancy Drew.
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    Post by CeCe Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:45 pm

    I'm sure there are some I'm completely forgetting but Columbo for tv & Hercule Poirot for books. Although I am developing a real fondness for Mitch Mitchell Who is your favorite detective? Naughty
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    Post by ph balanced Tue Jun 12, 2012 12:09 am

    Shaft is my fav, but only because he had that kick ass theme song
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    Post by wants2laugh Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:03 am

    Does Angel count???

    I dont care what he does... he looks good and loves to suck on necks! lol
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    Post by Tony Marino Tue Jun 12, 2012 12:26 pm

    I don't know......Magnum P.I.

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