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Richard May wants to read: Looking for a mystery/crime series with a contemporary Sherlock Holmes type character. Really tired of the down and out been done wrong detective.

Feb 23, 2013 09:02AM · Like

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Location: Helena, AL

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Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh, #1)
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P.D. James

she said: " Dalgliesh is much more a reincarnation of the golden-age-style intellectual mysteries than hardboiled/noir--might be worth looking at. He doesn't get beat up, have an abusive childhood, and carouse with gangsters, for a start, although he also doesn't have the wackiness and gung-ho adventure-ness of Holmes. ...more "