Just one more question Best Dicks

**david44** · 19-11-2024, 11:47 PM

I guess growing up long ago I read Sherlock Holmes and many other stories some were on familiar territory like Norwood and Blackheath in London where I was at school.I read Chritie Ellery Queen, Father brown and the like as a kid.

Still enjoy film noir classics, 3 of which I'd place in the best films ever of any genre.
The Big Sleep,
The Maltese Falcon and
Double Indeminity for all the low production values by today's standards , the scripts acting and suspense as fresh as ever and plan to rewatch over the holidays.Wire in the Bloos also.

Later TV arrived with pap like Z Cars , Ironside,Starsky and Hutch, Maigret , Kojak, Monk a tad better and the gruff Dalziell and Pascoe and of course Zodiac and the silence of the lambs! Not so much police detection but a roman a cle the film Ghost also excellent.

I didn't see much TV about 2 decades moving around pre net but enjoyed Klute and some of the more unuusal American crime Dramas like Electra Glide in Blue, Dirty Harry, Anderson Tapes, Pelham 123 original plus Bullit.

One of the best tv productions was the UK 2 part Great Train robbery of 1963 seen from view of the cops and the gang.

On TV Taggart always good gritty tales smoothy Morse and the French Connection movies.

There is so much content today film tv netflix prime.

Any recomendations for new ones Slow Horses more espionage but great

What are your favourites and why?

**Switch** · 20-11-2024, 10:03 AM

Netflix is mostly pants without a decent VPN.

Enjoyed US series ‘The night agent’. Formulaic but good production values, creation of likeable characters, immediately placed in danger. Simple but it woks for me.

**Aricius Merlinus** · 20-11-2024, 11:18 AM

I don't have any TV or film recommendations, but if you want reading material, I have enjoyed a couple of authors who were popular in the late 19th to early 20th centuries. The first one is R. Austin Freeman, who wrote a bunch of novels and short stories featuring a medical doctor and lawyer, Dr. John Thorndyke. The second one is Arthur Morrison, who wrote quite a few novels featuring a "working class" detective, Martin Hewitt.

**39TG** · 20-11-2024, 11:32 AM

I really liked Taggart. That was awesome.

**nidhogg** · 20-11-2024, 11:57 AM

Brother Cadfael.

There was a TV series, with Cadfael being played by Derek Jacobi.

**Shutree** · 20-11-2024, 03:17 PM

Originally Posted by david44

Father brown

Apparently, back in the day, as popular as Sherlock Holmes. I read quite a few. The TV series didn't impress, I watched a couple, I don't seek them out.

Originally Posted by david44

Morse

I enjoyed John Thaw being Morse. The prequel series, Endeavour, was recommended to me. I haven't found it anywhere yet.

I read the Dexter novel The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn. I was told it was the first Morse novel. It wasn't, it was the third. It became the second of the tv series. Frankly I didn't think it was very good. I haven't read any others.

The TV series Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch was good.

Originally Posted by david44

Slow Horses

I'd like to watch that. It's not on Netflix though.

The classics of the genre are probably Agatha Christie. I've read about half her books. The TV series Poirot was pretty good.

**david44** · 20-11-2024, 03:50 PM

Originally Posted by Shutree

Endeavour

It was ok . similar to Lewis set in an earlier raw post war era of my childhood 1960s, good acting but somehow not as enjoyable as Morse (the adult). You will find torrents for most if you have enough bandwidth.

While not strictly a detective show watched part 6/10 of the Day of the Jackal series a good show.

**Shutree** · 20-11-2024, 03:54 PM

How about The Blacklist?

Sort of detective series, or a crime thriller. CWMS liked it and I liked it so we watched it all. Better in some places than others.

**taxexile** · 20-11-2024, 04:06 PM

the original series of highway patrol with broderick crawford with all those wonderful 1950's american cars.

and if it's true noir you are after, then look no further than ...

the film, or preferably the book by james ellroy (The Chicago Tribune said, "Ellroy is a master at juggling plot lines, using a stripped, spare noir style that hits like a cleaver but is honed like a scalpel".)

Destination Morgue, also by James Ellroy

Hollywood Fuckpad, Hot Prowl Rape-O and Jungletown Jihad are vintage Ellroy: starting in 1983 and ending in the present day, they are interlinked novellas telling the story of a bad cop, Rick Jenson, and his twenty-year obsession with Donna Donahue, a beautiful Hollywood actress. The only way Rick can get close to Donna is by bringing her into investigations of the teeming Tinseltown underworld: psychopathic killers, stalkers and terrorists commingle in an unholy cocktail of sex, sleaze and violence. Jenson and Donahue cut a swathe through the cases, treading a high wire of danger and a fatal sexual attraction.

The book also contains eight previously unpublished non-fiction articles ranging from cases from the Los Angeles Police Unsolved Homicide files to the first article Ellroy has ever written on his imaginative process: Where I Get My Weird Shit.

This is James Ellroy's second collection of short pieces following on from Dick Contino's Blues.

**nidhogg** · 20-11-2024, 04:35 PM

Originally Posted by Shutree

How about The Blacklist?

Sort of detective series, or a crime thriller. CWMS liked it and I liked it so we watched it all. Better in some places than others.

Blacklist was excellent - until it wasn't. Just went on too long and I gave up on it.

**Switch** · 20-11-2024, 05:29 PM

Originally Posted by nidhogg

Blacklist was excellent - until it wasn't. Just went on too long and I gave up on it.

I was not impressed with Endeavor at first, but it does grow on you. Really enjoyed it eventually. Worth following it.

**Switch** · 20-11-2024, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by david44

It was ok . similar to Lewis set in an earlier raw post war era of my childhood 1960s, good acting but somehow not as enjoyable as Morse (the adult). You will find torrents for most if you have enough bandwidth.

While not strictly a detective show watched part 6/10 of the Day of the Jackal series a good show.

Lewis was spoiled for me by Kevin Whatley. No wonder Morse got annoyed with him. He was playing himself.

**Switch** · 20-11-2024, 05:35 PM

Originally Posted by nidhogg

Blacklist was excellent - until it wasn't. Just went on too long and I gave up on it.

Ditto.

**nidhogg** · 20-11-2024, 05:38 PM

Line of duty is well worth a watch. Six series so bingable.

**BLD** · 20-11-2024, 06:45 PM

Originally Posted by Switch

Ditto.

Exactly. Raymond reddington lost all.credibility and was getting more pathetic with each episode

**BLD** · 20-11-2024, 06:47 PM

I can't recall the name but it was about a cop in Norway or somewhere in scandahooligan land the cop was a big bearded fucker and was unconventional in solving crimes. Watched a couple of episodes but fucked if I can find it again.

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