Flavia Flav: Favorite detectives (We have a winner)
The heroine of Alan Bradley’s cult favorite Flavia De Luce mysteries is a precocious 11-year-old girl who lives in a crumbling country house with her eccentric father and disdainful older sisters, performing chemistry experiments and sticking her nose in other people’s affairs. Everyone is slightly mad and overly dramatic and all is resolved in the spirit of high silliness. It’s delightful.
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, trade paperback, Php559
The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag, hardcover, Php549
A Red Herring Without Mustard, trade paper, Php549
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, mass market paperback, Php315
The Flavia De Luce mysteries are available at National Bookstores at 20 percent off during the Cut-Price Book Sale.
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What is your favorite detective fiction series? Tell us in Comments. The lucky commenter gets a copy of I Am Half-Sick of Shadows and the graphic novel Stormwatch vol. 1: The Dark Side.
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The cats conducted the raffle and the winner is…Ejia.
Please post your full name in Comments (it won’t be published) and we’ll alert you when it’s at the drop.
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Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
August 13th, 2012 at 12:17
Favorite detective fiction series? By a nose, the Nancy Drew series.
August 13th, 2012 at 15:37
Same here! I grew up reading Nancy Drew books.
August 13th, 2012 at 15:39
Salvo Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri.
August 13th, 2012 at 16:56
“Everyone is slightly mad and overly dramatic and all is resolved in the spirit of high silliness.” – sold! hmm alin kaya magandang unahin bilhin/basahin..
August 13th, 2012 at 17:16
Erast Fandorin books – Boris Akunin
and I miss Choose Your Own Adventure books..
August 13th, 2012 at 19:06
tehanu: Start with the first book, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. It’s like Nancy Drew but crazy.
August 13th, 2012 at 20:53
Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
and
Sherlock Holmes.
August 13th, 2012 at 21:51
I like Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot but I won’t pretend that I did not enjoy Nancy Drew back in high school. That girl was one big trouble magnet.
August 13th, 2012 at 22:50
Detective Conan hehehe
August 14th, 2012 at 00:11
Two detective series with TV adaptations I read were The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency and Sally Lockhart books.
August 14th, 2012 at 01:03
The detective series I’ve read so far was Doyle’s, which I think is a must for anyone interested in this genre. I am currently listening to The House of Silk.
Salamat sa post, hanapin ko rin ang mga libro na ito.
August 14th, 2012 at 02:03
The Three Investigators. Nancy was cool but she didn’t have a junkyard pile to hang out under.
August 14th, 2012 at 02:18
Carmen Sandiego Mystery books! (Ages 8 and Up)
e.g. The Cocoa Commotion – Carmen steals the very first cocoa plants! No cocoa, no chocolates!
August 14th, 2012 at 09:00
I have read three of the flavia de luce mysteries, will look out for the fourth book. She is quite the riot, and her family members all have their own stories to tell.
the Andrea Camilleri books make me want to fly to Sicily, eat the food, drive around to find the locations of his stories, swim in the sea with Inspector Montalbano.
My favorites remain the classic triumvarate of female mystery writers: Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, and Dorothy Sayers. bury me underneath used copies of their books when i am dead.
August 14th, 2012 at 13:42
Salamat! Kailangan ko to, nakakaburyong magbasa ng LET review materials… (Yesss, abot pa ako sa Cut-Price Book Sale!)
August 14th, 2012 at 19:42
I love the William Monk series. William and Hester Monk are a husband-and- wife detective team who investigate various homicides set in Victorian England. The writing is perfect. I feel like I walk through the streets of Victorian London in every novel. Creepy bonus: The author, Anne Perry, was convicted of murder when she was a teenager. She helped her best friend bludgeon her mother to death.
August 15th, 2012 at 11:55
I’ve got all the Flavias, and my favourite is The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag (I imagined Alexander Skarsgård as Dieter). But amongst Maigret, Poirot, Marple, Holmes, Nancy Drew, Imogen Quy, Isabel Dalhousie, I still find that I’m attached to Precious Ramotswe of Botswana. I cried at the end of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (yes, mababaw ang luha). When I feel like I want to restore my faith in humanity, I read McCall-Smith’s African detective books, not because they’re filled with warm, loving, wholly innocuous people but because they are inhabited by persons who are flawed but still inspired by an altruism rooted in tradition and persevere in the face of poverty, selfishness, greed, apathy–in fine, the Botswana of McCall-Smith is very close to home.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:57
It’s a toss between Christie’s Jane Marple and Simenon’s Jules Maigret and I don’t know if this counts, Rip Kirby comic strips. The first is just smashing as a detective, an old lady unflinchingly nosing her way through mysteries, delicate as an china tea cup. The Maigret books are travel guides for my dream tramping grounds; love Simenon’s writing style too. Rip Kirby is a style peg. (=
August 15th, 2012 at 13:03
…I meant sartorial peg.
August 15th, 2012 at 17:40
Oh yes, I did like The Sunday Philosophy Club too. Must have more Isabel Dalhousie!
August 18th, 2012 at 04:35
Sherlock Holmes. I would read one case a night and wouldn’t read the next until i have “solved” the case, imagining that I was Irene Adler with Angelina Jolie’s face. Most of the time, my ideas are on the opposite pole of Sherlock’s. So I’d try harder on the next case just to fail all over again!