I am pleased that so many of my favorites are doing well in
the voting but even happier to get so many leads to new
characters.
John Wiese
My top twenty are: 31. Bubba Rogowski (series, Dennis Lehane)
36. C. W. Shugrue (series, James Crumley) 59. Dan Kearney
(DKA series, Joe Gores) 72. Dimitrios Makropoulos (Coffin for
Dimitrios, Eric Ambler) 117. Harry aka Hieronymus Bosch
(series, Michael Connelly) 133. Jack Reacher (series, Lee
Child) 150. Joe Pike (Elvis Cole series, Robert Crais) 153.
John Marshall Tanner (series, Stephen Greenleaf) 160. Keller
(HIT MAN and HIT LIST, Lawrence Block) 162. Kinsey Millhone
(series, Sue Grafton) 167. Lew Archer (series, Ross
Macdonald) 183. Martin Beck (series, Maj Sjowall and Per
Wahloo) 186. Matthew Scudder (series, Lawrence Block) 210.
Nameless (series, Bill Pronzini) 229. Philip Marlowe (series,
Raymond Chandler) 237. Quiller (series, Adam Hall) 252 Sam
Spade (THE MALTESE FALCON, Dashiell Hammett) 266. Spenser
(series, Robert Parker) 283. Travis McGee (series, John D.
MacDonald) 286. V.I. Warshawski (series, Sara Paretsky)
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