A top-25 'sleuth 'list has to be restrictive in some sense at
least; we had many differences in the top 100s HB lists a few
summers back. However, the proposed top 25 here seems to have
very little in the way of HB or noir. By my count only two of
the 'sleuths' fit. While Spade and Rockford are damn good
fits, it seems sad to me the list is mostly about detectives
in TV and old film. It's hard for me to muster too much
enthusiasm for an American top-25 sleuth list that don't at
least include Scudder, Shugrue, Milodragovitch, Moseley (okay
so he's a cop), Stephanos, Hammer, Archer, Marlowe and
Griffin. But hey, I'm not American, so maybe I shouldn't get
a vote on this.
--Stu
On 7/20/06, Joy Matkowski <
jmatkowski1@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I figured it must mean "liked by Americans," Karin,
because I assumed
> Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple would be on the list,
but when I checked,
> they weren't there. Sherlock Holmes is on the list,
though, so my theory
> still holds, unless Holmes is somehow partly
American, like Winston
> Churchill.
> Joy, whose favorite sleuth right now is Kemal
Kayankaya
>
> Karin Montin asked:
> > Does "America's" mean "American" or liked by
Americans?
> RE:
> >>Now, I'm getting a chance to incorporate my
love of crime fiction at
> >>my day job. I'm a senior producer with NBC
News Productions, and
> >>working on a project for NBC's new crime and
mystery channel, SLEUTH,
> >>that may interest the list. The program is a
90 minute countdown of
> >>the top 25 sleuths from film and tv, called
"America's Top Sleuths."
>
>
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