Well I love detective novels （of course I read other kinds of books too but I am crazy about detective novels now.）
I love Ellery Queen 、Agatha and ...Holmes of course~ I aslo love some Japanese writers especially Shimada Souji.
I would like to know if there is anybody loves detective novels in the Dollars.I will be veryhappy if there is：）

Hey, I like detective novels XD
My repertoire is not great, but I love stories with mystery, drama and so on.
Perhaps you could recommend a book for me? XD

I love detective novels!! :D

Hello!
>>2 Well I don't know what kind of books you will like but I love Ellery Queen's The Tragedy of X. You may know this already, it is really famous...(actually I love most of Queen's books, especially the early ones. )
I love Murder on the Orient Espress. It really made me surprised.(And so the Hercule Poirot's Christmas did. )
I also love Shimada Souji's books but I don't know how to say them in English ...(I am a Chinese...)
And John Dickson Carr's are good,too.

>>3
Hello! Glad to hear this! :D
So Whose or which book do you like best?(Eh this may be hard to answer...At least I love a lot and cannot choose which is the best myself:P.)

>>3
Well I just found it... is your name something about L.Lawliet (Death note)?

Oh thanks! I'll definitely look for them XD

It's my pleasure~Hope you will like them:D

>>6 Lol, yes. It is. And Hm.... I like Agatha and Holmes as well. Holmes especially...

>>1 >>9 It is funny that you said Agatha and Holmes, and not Agatha and Doyle. Holmes certainly had built his own charisma that people actually look at him as a separate being from his writer, as if he is his own man.

I don't like Holmes that much though. I prefer Christie since she focuses more on the psychological aspect of a crime rather than its method. Not that the method does not interest me, I just feel that the working of human's brain is more fascinating.

Since you can read Japanese works C.Club, have you read Edogawa Rampo? Isn't he one of the most famous detective and mystery writers in Japan?

I had never heard of Ellery Queen though, and did not know they were famous. Probably because all the detective stories I read were English (as in British). I tried to check at my libraries but there were not many choices.

Oh, I am in Australia by the way.

>>11 Lol, yes. I do that a lot.

Yes, I agree. I like Holmes/Doyle a lot, but Agatha Christie's method of writing I prefer. The way she approaches the crimes and the mental aspect of it all really intrigues me. However, I read Holmes more often because those books are easier to get ahold of here. Lol.

>>9
Oh, I love L too...one of my favourite anime characters:D
>>10
Well sorry about that,I didnt pay attention to it.I think it is because Agatha created more than one detective but Doyle didnt.(and to tell a truth,I really attracted by Homles' personal charm,not the mystery...)
Yes, Rampo is the most famous detective novel writer in Japan.He is called 'the father of detective novels'.His works influenced many other writers in Japan.

>>11
Well...that is a pity if you dont read Ellery Queen...the mysteries in his novels are really good especially in the series of nations(I dont really know how to say.that in English, I just translate it from Chinese directly...sorry)and the series of tragedy.

>>12 I read Jeffrey Deaver's 'The Bone Collector'. The detective was a criminologist and forensics expert and the book was amazingly full about how to gather evidences and profiled the unknown perpetrator based on them. But in the end the detective did not guess who the criminal was, instead the criminal came and showed himself up in front of the detective (and almost killed him while at it?) I feel, WHAT? At first I thought the book was going to be like Caleb Carr's 'The Alienist' in which they constructed the identity of the criminal from nothing. But it turned out to be a whodunit with the criminal among those the detective already knew. All because the detective was too proud he actually said, "I am interested in physical evidences. Not why he kills."

Should have learned from Agatha, then the criminal would not have caught him by surprise.

>>14 Not because I did not want to, mind you. But really Queen was close to unknown in Australia. There isn't even a complete collection of his works here.

>>15
Well I didnt read the Bone Collector...I know it but I am not very interested in it.Whatever, it is not a classic mystery(At least I dont think it is...or you say littice reasoning?I am not sure...)
>>16
I understand well...actually,Queen is unknow among people who dont read detective novels in China,too. And a number of people who think they do read the mysteries only know Holmes and Agatha,nothing else...(sigh). But believe me, Queen is really great in the history of detective novels.

>>17 I prefer the classics to modern detective stories too. Failing that, those that were set at the latest during the WWII. Historical fiction + mystery. I do read more recent mysteries but they don't have these vintage feeling to them.

Ah, I am going to read Queen or whatever of his books the libraries have. They don't have 'Tragedy of X' though. Pah!

>>18
Yes...there is a special sense of beauty in the classic mysteries...I am not able to express it in English...

Glad that you will read Queen's...Wish you will enjoy it.:)

I'm actually writing a noir , i've seen some movies to.

Well...I dont really know what a noir is...something about mafia?
Whatever, writing by yourself is cool! I wanted to write novels when I was in the primary school but I easily gave up...(sigh)