Some of the Great Detectives:
Eyes Included in Maxim Jakubowski's
100 Great Detectives
Maxim Jakubowski's 100 Great Detectives,
published in 1991, is an absolute delight. In it, contemporary mystery authors
expound on their personal favorite fictional detectives. As Jakubowski states
in his intro: "Every author was asked to submit a list of two or three
of their favorite characters, and I then assigned a detective to each. I
think the result is wonderfully idiosyncratic and makes for compulsive reading.
Some of the individual choices are predictable, but so many others less
so, and betray fascinating guilty pleasures."
Among those included in the 100:
- Willian Hjortsberg's Harry Angel by Mark Timlin
- Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer by Douglas Wynn
- Arthur Lyon's Jacob Asch by Ion Mills
- Charles Burns' El Borbah by Colin Greenland
- Andrew Vachss' Burke by Wayne Dundee
- Dashiel Hammett's Continental OP by Richard Lupoff
- Howard Engel's Benny Cooperman by Eric Wright
- Jonathan Latimer's Bill Crane by Paul Buck
- Raymond Chandler's John Dalmas
by Barry Fantoni
- Marc Behm's The Eye by Maxim Jakubowski
- P.D. James' Cordelia Grey by Deborah Valentine
- P.B. Yuill's Hazell by John Conquest
- Frederic Brown's Ed and Am Hunter by Scott A. Cupp
- Liza Cody's Anna Lee by Michael Z. Lewin
- Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe by Loren D. Estleman
- Marcia Muller's Sharon McCone by Bill Pronzini (her husband!)
- James Crumley's Milo Milodragovitch by Adrian Wootton
- Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone by Simon Brett
- Ed Lacy's Toussaint Marcus Moore by John Williams
- Charles Willeford's Hoke Mosley by Mike Ripley
- Bill Pronzini's Nameless by Ed Gorman
- Loren D. Estleman's Ralph Poteet by Nigel Algar
- James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux by Jerry Raine
- Edward Mathis' Dan Roman by Jerry Kennealy
- Dashiel Hammett's Sam Spade by Julian Symons
- Robert B. Parker's Spenser by Frederick Nolan
- Robert Irvine's Moroni Traveler by Robert Campbell
- Loren D. Estleman's Amos Walker by Helen Esper Olmstead
- Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski by Linda Semple
- Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe by Paula Gosling
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