poisoning your fantasy

[custardpringle]

It occurred to me today, since I have three weeks of school left and not much to do over the summer besides have surgery, write fic, and roller-skate: in all the recent run of Big Bang challenges, there does not seem to be a Classic Detectives Big Bang. And that is just a shame.On the one hand, I will have plenty of time to run this over the summer

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[trialia]

OMFG, you serious?? @_@; Wow. *grin* I love introducing people to new stuff, and I reckon you would love GG, given what you listed up above... He's a little late for 'Golden Age', but the books themselves fit quite well in the period between that and modern.

The Wikipedia entry for that character is under Gideon of Scotland Yard. You'll find some of the novels under the pen-name J.J. Marric, but I don't think you can get any of them new, now. The series by the original author was published between 1955 and 1976 (Creasey died in '73), and there are five more written by William Vivian Butler after that. I only have one of those, but it's fairly true to Creasey's style (far more so than Jill Paton Walsh is to Sayers' work!). I can't recommend starting with the first book, as they're all bloody hard to find. *g* I think I may have a duplicate of one of them somewhere, if you want it, but I'd have to check which one it is.

I also would go with your mama's recommendation of Alleyn (currently re-reading Death and the Dancing Footman myself :)).

Cadfael was written much more recently, but, being a historical setting, that seems to cross the line to me, and we always need more Cadfael fic - it's been 15 years since Edith Pargeter died, and she was writing her Inspector Felse novels all through the '60s and '70s before she hit Cadfael in '77 and carried him right through to her death...