Top Detectives in Fiction by Li Haidong Singapore

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Top Five Detectives in Fiction

• By Li Haidong

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1 Sherlock Holmes
Probably the worlds most famous detective,
Arthur Conan Doyle created a character who became
renowned for his perceptive reasoning abilities
and for his ability to disguise himself
effortlessly. Watson, his friend and assistant
became the worlds best known sidekick. Sherlock
Holmes set the benchmark for all the fictional
detectives who followed later.
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2 Hercules Poirot
A detective with a head shaped like an egg, with
a bad English accent and all the French foibles
you can think of, only Agatha Christie could have
imagined and created a character like him. He is
not your physical, hard working kind of
detective he is the thinking mans detective
with great intelligence and an even greater ego.
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3 Inspector Maigret
A genuine police detective, Inspector Maigret was
more down-to-earth and natural than any other
detective. He was like all of us, he had his good
and bad days, he was older and more mature, and
somehow he did not awe us with his superior
intelligence. Created by Georges Simenon, he was
the central character in about seventy-five
novels and many short stories.
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4 Nero Wolfe
Nero Wolfe is Called the Falstaff of detectives,
he is described by his friend and narrator of the
stories, Archie Goodwin as weighing one-seventh
of a ton. Nero Wolfe however manages to solve
all the cases which are under his purview without
indulging in too much physical activity.
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5 Ellery Queen
Airtight plots and a well etched character are
the distinguishing characteristics of an Ellery
Queen novel. A Harvard alumni, he is quite
uppity, and solves crimes because he finds it
stimulating. Seven decade4s later his books are
still popular among mystery novel aficionados.
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