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What is your favorite mystery novel and/or author?
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The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Great book.
Who will deny the greatness of The Warren Commission and The 9/11 Commission as mystery writers, as well as the authors of the Coronahoax/Jabpocalypse and the Russia Gave Us ____ (Fill in the Blank)?
Well my favorite book is the Bible, but for distraction down here – Vince Flynn – as a kid I read all of the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books………
Breakheart Pass by Alistair MacLean. Probably the setting has a lot to do with it.
Is Steven King considered a “mystery writer?”
No, but The Shining is an awfully good suspense novel…
Good answer.
Any book dealing with human nature is a mystery to me. Humans are mind boggling.
Yes, but wired differently from the masses. I include myself in that comment above. A walking contradiction…want opposite things simultaneously.
I guess it will remain a mystery…🙂
Horses, and all animals, are much easier to understand.
Adorable dogs.
Sounds like a keeper. 😉
Tom Clancy, hands down for me
I like Clancy for the first 60 pages, then skip the nearly 80 page tour guide to set up the rest of the story, then get back to the action through the end. I’m off on the exact percentages (been a long time), but that’s basically his formula.
I read the beginning of a book, then I read the end. Then I start in the middle and go whichever way I liked better.
In High School I had a great teacher who had us read lots of mystery novels. I would generally read the one from the author and then if I liked it, would read many many more from the same author. The authors I remember (and they were all great), were Raymond Chandler (The Lady in the Lake, The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely), Dashiell Hammett (The Thin Man, The Maltese Falcon), and Mickey Spillane (The Big Kill, Kiss Me Deadly). Also read Agatha Christie on my own and some others. Not sure I could pick out just one, but Raymond Chandler wrote some of the best. Got a bit burned out on mystery novels as life became enough of a mystery of its own. Then I switched to horror.
The Maltese Falcon is a great one…so are the Continental Op stories..
“The Thanatos Syndrome” by Walker Percy. Although he wassn’t a true mytery writer, it’s a well crafted novel that is quite relevant about life in the USA today.
John D McDonald and his Travis Magee series of books
C.J. Box, Paul Doiron, Michael Connely…. Never understood the difference between fiction and mystery. All the fiction books I read are a mystery until I’ve read them.
I have read thousands. The Bone tree by Gregg Iles is the best of his series, which is awesome. Lots of history and Geography of the South is the added bonus.
James Doss and Tony Hillerman are also great authors that have mystery and a lot of Indian history, mythology, and Geography.
Kate Shugak series by Dana Stabenow is all about Alaska.
James Lee Burke with the Bobbsy twins from Homicide takes place in the South.
Yrsa Sigurdardotter from Iceland also has some awesome mystery and you learn about Iceland at the same time.
I’m personally very fond of Robert E Howard, the creator of Conan the Barbarian and Kull the Conqueror, but he was also a prolific author of “Weird” Horror/Mystery short stories.
One of my favorites is titled “Pigeons From Hell”…..
Diane Mott Davidson’s Goldy Bear mysteries, and Shirley Rousseau Murphy’s Joe Grey series.
Carl Hiassen… because I can laugh my a$$ off at the same time.
Twilly Spree was the baddest ass (bad assest?) eco terrorist of all time.
Going out on a limb, but ‘The Transmigration of Timothy Archer’ by Philip K Dick
In the old days, Ross MacDonald novels like “The far side of the dollar”…Now, the Charles Todd mysteries about Inspector Rutledge, a veteran of the Great War…
Agreed…
The mystery…….What’s with the new format when receiving the email notifications from The Burning Platform? Who designed it? Stevie Wonder?
My favorite mystery novel is the Bible. I am completely mystified as to how there were five different versions of the Resurrection of The Christ, including one where he lived among the Brethren for several months before ascending into heaven. Was he reborn into a slightly different life permutation each time? Did he obtain Nirvana and that is why he hasn’t returned?
The other great mystery novel is the Koran. I mean, how 700 pages that literally say absolutely nothing other than that you must absolutely believe in the absolute nothing it contains – how this book could become the basis for a religion of over a billion people has to be the greatest mystery in the world. Call me kafir if you will Mr. Fatwa.
Kafir… you a nigger? Or am i thinking kaffir?
Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; all mystery writers owe a debt of gratitude towards him. Taught me to question everything I see, which is what we all need to do.
The Name of The Rose, Umberto Ecco
I would love to read The Name of the Rose in active verse. It is really good, but written in the old style passive verse.
Never liked mystery novels. Never got past Scooby Doo when it came to mystery.
Anything by Elmore Leonard.
Yea…he could grab your mind and imagination with lean, stark, words that were so revealing they were naked.
For many years I enjoyed the almost yearly out put of Elmore Leonard and Vince Flynn. And the less frequent, but fabulous books by Michael Crichton. I followed Leonard from when he was writing great westerns like Hombre and Valdez is Coming to his last book Djibouti.
I just moved and as I’ve been unpacking my ~3,000 book library, I’ve pulled and reread some of each man’s work. Just finished The Prey and Jurassic Park. Real rippers.
Back in grade school, Ian Fleming, Thucydides and Homer were my go to authors.
Man I miss all of them, edge of the seat stuff.
The BIG mystery right now is what in the Wide, Wide, World of Sports is the “Pandemic Treaty”??? The Lamestream Media is quiet as a church mouse about this treaty that is alleged to give over the keys to world government to the WHO. Just imagine the WHO running a one world government, we will all become human pin cushions, not to mention dead as a door nail.
Dr. Fraudchi will head up the Dept. of Vaxx Compliance for sure. The meetings to make this treaty a reality are CLOSED to us mere humans. Sleep better tonight knowing the psychos are planning to take COMPLETE control. The next meeting for this “treaty” will be in June. Until then it is all just another mystery in the end of life as we know it.
This is very concerning. I often wonder how a one world government would be able to enforce their edicts all around the entire planet. It’s a lot of ground to cover. But then just look at how effective the DC octopus has been at ruining pretty much every American’s life.
What I do know is that I will never willingly take a jab. Law or no law. That fight will be to the death. I will go to the afterlife with my DNA intact. I absolutely will die on that hill.
You know they are coming for your guns, your chickens, your gardens, your rainwater and your rural property. My plan is to tell them, “Fuck You”.
At the Moutains of Madness, Lovecraft
Hard to say if HP Lovecraft is a mystery writer (think he had his own thing going on), but his stuff is something one really needs to read every word and sometimes going back over the sentence or paragraph again. At the Mountains of Madness is definitely a classic.
Somebody on this site awhile back wrote about there being a portal in the mountains of Antarctica taken from the Book of Enoch.
The Call Of Ktulu
Works of Dashiell Hammet and Eric Ambler. They taught future generations how to write mysteries and spy stories. Also Patricia Highsmith she is very important.
Harry Whittington, who wrote so many great novels back in the ’50s and ’60s. He wrote the sort of paperbacks that you’d buy in the bus or train station, or keep under your mattress so your mother wouldn’t find it. Crackling dialogue, sex, violence, great plotting, sex, and grit. Lots and lots of grit. Dark places with shady characters who didn’t suffer from any sort of moral ambivalence. Abusers. Addicts. Lots and lots of lone wolves just out of prison desperate for an easy payday.
Lots of his books all over eBay, and Stark House Press has released quite of few of his books. Recommended.
I enjoyed James Lee Burke, but the plotting and characterization really only worked in NOLA and South Louisiana, and he started having things happen to Dave Robicheaux and Cletus up in Montana. Montana is a great place, but it’s a long way from Nola. And he started injecting his politics into the books, and that turned me off. And he was beginning to recycle the plots, and that was annoying. I had to put his books down, because I just didn’t care for the lectures about what miserable lives the Breaux Bridge cane workers had, and how it’s all the fault of rich white people who live in air-conditioned mansions. I don’t care. I just want the story.
I enjoyed the Easy Rawlins series by Walter Mosley. A black janitor in 50’s LA who also acted as a detective. Grit and more grit and some very vivid characterizations. Mosley’s other stuff left me cold.
If you like mysteries you should check out an imprint called Hard Case Crime. You will think you have died and gone to heaven. They’ve republished a great many of the mystery/thriller writers of the past, and they’ve teased new work out of Stephen King and Joyce Carol Oates. Check them out. I dropped King because his politics were getting into his books. Oates has some seriously deranged political views, but never drops them into her writing. I admire her for that.
I do not read Mystery Novels. Currently reading Audie Murphy’s Autobiography “To Hell And Back”. Audie was America’s most decorated World War II Combat Vet.