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Guess who? Val McDermid, Ian Rankin, Sophie Hannah and other crime writers reveal their favourite detectives

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At the end of a year when murder mysteries rode high in the charts, we ask crime writers to celebrate the best fictional detectives

I first saw the literary possibilities of the “crime novel” when I was in my middle teens, and my older brother gave me a copy of Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep. Until then I had mostly known the jigsaw puzzles of Agatha Christie or the barely bearable Wimseycalities of Dorothy L Sayers. Here, in Chandler, was style.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/VYpOSwk

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