/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18770387]

>father brown
>sherlock holmes
>hercule poirot
>miss marple
>lord peter wimsey
>c. auguste dupin
Who's the best fictional detective?

[Anonymous No.18770513]

Sherlock holmes because i don't know who the fuck is anyone else you mentioned

[Anonymous No.18770622]

Sam Spade, if you're a heterosexual.
Any of the above mentioned by OP if you are not.

[Anonymous No.18770650]

C. Auguste Dupin ofc, he's the OG

[Anonymous No.18770742]

>>18770387
L

[Anonymous No.18770747]

>>18770387
As an actual detective: Sherlock
My personal favourtie: Poirot, I enjoy his stories more.

[Anonymous No.18770800]

>>18770387
Father Brown is a Catholic who pokes fun at the mechanical thought processes of the Protestants and the book is basically an apologia of the Roman Church as against the Anglican Church. Sherlock Holmes is the 'Protestant' detective who finds the end of the criminal skein by starting from the outside, relying on science, on experimental method, on induction. Father Brown is the Catholic priest who through the refined psychological experiences offered by confession and by the persistent activity of the fathers' moral casuistry, though not neglecting science and experimentation, but relying especially on deduction and introspection, totally defeats Sherlock Holmes, makes him look like a pretentious little boy, shows up his narrowness and pettiness. Moreover, Chesterton is a great artist while Conan Doyle was a mediocre writer, even though he was knighted for literary merit; thus in Chesterton there is a stylistic gap between the content, the detective story plot, and the form, and therefore a subtle irony with regard to the subject being dealt with, which renders these stories so delicious.

[Anonymous No.18770808]

>>18770747
Correct

[Anonymous No.18771119]

>>18770800
Based.

[Anonymous No.18771134]

>>18770800

[Anonymous No.18771150]

>>18770800

[Anonymous No.18771264]

>>18770387
Scooby-Doo.

[Anonymous No.18771283]

>>18770387
For me its poirot.

[Anonymous No.18771296]

>>18770800
i've read half of my collected sherlock holmes and ive only read the first father brown story the blue cross. in fact ive read it three times its excellent. there was some theological discussion towards the end but desu i didnt really get what chesterton was trying to say about the church or whatever

[Anonymous No.18771317]

>>18770387
>"Catholics are so much more humble than the Hindus, since Catholics want something"
Father Brown is so pompous, arrogant and self absorbed, and his cases so laughably contrived that I am convinced the entire character and works are satire.

[Anonymous No.18771380]

>>18770387
Porfiry

[Anonymous No.18771403]

>>18771296
Read more anon
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/204/204-h/204-h.htm

[Anonymous No.18771440]

>>18771403
i prefer physical copies anon, that being said i'm going to read the next story, The Secret Garden now

[Anonymous No.18771450]

>>18770387
The Continental OP

[Anonymous No.18771529]

>>18770387
Batman