Detectives: Hard-Boiled or Egg Head?

[PoliSciProf]

OK mystery fans: your favorite detectives: Hard-Boiled (example Mike Hammer, Kojak, Sam Spade, V. I. Warshawski, etc.) or Egg Head (Columbo, Monk, Sherlock Holmes, etc.). I am for the Egg Head with Columbo being my favorite.

 

[Baptista]

That’s funny, I never thought of Columbo as an egg head before, but you’re right. And he is also one of my favorites from tv, as is Jessica Fletcher. Both egg heads. I love Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple, also. Two more egg heads. I totally prefer the “exercising of the little gray cells”.

 

[Mirdath]

Both! Sam Spade is just as much fun as Sherlock.

 

[Denae]

“Monk” is one of my very favorite shows. I absolutely adore the character.

 

[Dandelion_Wine]

I love Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple, also. Two more egg heads. I totally prefer the “exercising of the little gray cells”.

Agatha rocks!

 

[Lion_of_Narnia]

A mixture of the two: Robert Parker’s Spenser Novels, or his more flawed Jesse Stone comes to mind right away.

 

[bluerose]

Then there’s Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum–“egg on her face”.

 

[Cat]

I’ve been a Sherlock Holmes fan since childhood. Read the canon through at least once a year.

I consider Holmes both hard-boiled and egg-headed.

According to Watson, he was a machine.

 

[maria_rose]

I love my egg heads like Monk, Sherlock holmes M iss Marple, Hercule Poirot, but I love them hard b oiled as well.
So give me a bit of both. By the way: MONK ROCKS!
So do the detectives of the LAW&ORDER franchises which are a bit of both.

 

[Kuryakyn]

To add to the hard-boiled list: Philip Marlowe.

I voted Other because I like them both, and some detectives can be either one.

 

[Denae]

So give me a bit of both. By the way: MONK ROCKS!

“It’s a jungle out there…”