Grievous wrote:
I was unsure as to where to post this as there seems to be no appropriate forum for literary aspects.
Who is you favorite fictional detective and why?
...Holmes is highly intelligent, a polymath and able fighter and is sophiticated but will also aquaint himself with the less-than savory caracters with equal respect.
His wife, Mary Russell... ,.
Please don't do that to me!
For one brief moment I thought I had slipped through into an alternate universe*. I know my Conan Doyle well, and was certain he had never married. There was Irene Adler, of course, and the author Carole Nelson Douglas has written novels focussed on her.
Google is my friend. I now know of the texts to which you refer.
I'll have to get a couple out of the library and try them.
Other detectives?
Dorothy Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey.
* you know you're in an alternate universe when...
...the coins in your sporran are inscribed "In Mithras we trust"