Anyone Have Any Good Private Detective Series They Can Recommend?

Dave Robicheaux series

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Dave Robicheaux series

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Thanks! Just looked at it and read the sample of Neon Rain and will be my next read.

Nero Wolfe

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Nero Wolfe is a fictional character, a brilliant, oversized, eccentric armchair detective created in 1934 by American mystery writer Rex Stout. Wolfe was born in Montenegro and keeps his past murky. He lives in a luxurious brownstone on West 35th Street in New York City, and he is loath to leave his home for business or anything that would keep him from reading his books, tending his orchids, or eating the gourmet meals prepared by his chef, Fritz Brenner. Archie Goodwin, Wolfe's sharp-witted, dapper young confidential assistant with an eye for attractive women, narrates the cases and does the legwork for the detective genius.

Stout wrote 33 novels and 41 novellas and short stories from 1934 to 1975, with most of them set in New York City. The stories have been adapted for film, radio, television and the stage. The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated for Best Mystery Series of the Century at Bouchercon 2000, the world's largest mystery convention, and Rex Stout was a nominee for Best Mystery Writer of the Century.

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The Wolfe series is unique in that it's part Great Detective, and part hard boiled private eye (legman Archie Goodwin). Many of the repartee exchanges are classics.

If you like audiobooks check out these old time radio shows:

The Adventures of Nero Wolfe -- stars Sydney Greenstreet (The Maltese Falcon) as Wolfe. My favorite Wolfe series in any medium (IMHO, aside from the isolated TV movie-pilot starring Thayer David in the late '70s, the TV attempts at Wolfe have been mediocre at best)

Hercule Poirot -- Unfortunately only a handful of episode from this entertaining WWII-era series survive. One of the episodes is a rewrite of Death On The Nile, with the action transferred to... a freighter on Lake Michigan!?

Lagniappe:

"The ABC Murders" -- an adaptation of the novel starring Charles Laughton (who had played Poirot on stage in the late '20s), done for the great radio show Suspense in 1943 -- but with the character of Poirot completely removed!

Harry Bosch series for modern
Hercule Poirot series for classic.

The Spenser series by Robert B. Parker.

I read through the recommendations. You can't go wrong with

- The Spencer series by Robert Parker

- The Dave Robicheaux series by James Lee Burk - If you are from Louisiana, you will love Dave.

- The Harry Bosch series by Michael Connelly (also the Lincoln Lawyer books by Connelly)

Can't go wrong with these and to read all of them would give you maybe 100 books, all good.


No one has mentioned Alex Cross Books by James Patterson. Also first rate.

Love Robert Crais’ books. One of my favorite series.

Marcus Didius Falco

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Marcus Didius Falco is the fictional central character and narrator in a series of historical mystery crime novels by Lindsey Davis. Using the concepts of modern detective stories (with Falco as the private investigator, roughly translated into the classical world as a delator or "private informer"), the novels portray the world of the Roman Empire under Vespasian. The tone is arch and satirical, but the historical setting is largely accurate.

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Dennis Lehane’s Patrick Kenzie series is the best one I’ve ever read.