Who do you think was the best detective: Hercule Poirot, Sherlock Holmes, or Adrian Monk?

Edogawa Conan.

@ragingloli I think Monk and Conan wouldn’t manage together for a long time.

Conan is just a wisecracking teenager with Sherlock Holmes’s deduction skills, so it makes him Sherlock Holmes.

Personally I vote for Holmes. I don’t necessarily like his stories that much, but I admire his skills. Also he can emotionally detach himself from the situation, making it easier to solve crime.

@Mimishu1995 As far as I know, none of them ever got emotional in a case. Maybe Monk, but I can’t remember any specific case where his emotions clouded his judgment.

Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S., M.D., M.D.S.

@Sneki95 yeah, but Holmes is the best at it.

If I can choose though, I prefer Philip Malowe. He is better at being a human and making me believe and love.

I think Sherlock Holmes was the greatest but Edgar Allan Poe’s C Auguste Dupin was the first and he showed the others the way. I am also quite fond of Dunsany’s Linley. Who else could solve a murder from nothing more than an unfinished crossword puzzle?

Lou Peckinpaugh in The Cheap
Detective had ‘em all beat.

Ace Ventura

Those 3 can’t hold a candle to Frank Drebin

I would put Mma Precious Ramotswe before Monk, but for me, it would be a toss for best between Sherlock and Poirot. I would LOVE to see a show with Ramotswe and Monk OR Sherlock and Poirot because I think the combination of the two characters together would be brilliant. Mma Precious is so pragmatic and takes no prisoners and Monk is so neurotic. Poirot is so polite and proper and Sherlock is so self absorbed and chaotic. I’d love to see those mash-ups.

Lord Peter Wimsey. Why is this even a question?

Miss Marple.

when you get dissed by the whole collective :D.

@cazzie I’d like to see the showdown between Poirot and Holmes as well.

Also, the only Hercule that matters, is Hercule Satan.

Subjective question of course, but I’d give the edge to Poirot on pure detective-ery and subtlety, though I prefer Holmes’ more action/adventure-oriented style, which is more versatile and entertaining.

Nancy Drew

Gregory House.

since House is based on Holmes, I guess Holmes is the best of the three.

Holmes, certainly. I don’t know much about Monk, but I think Holmes would happily collaborate with Poirot, whereas Poirot would be snooty about it.

@Mimishu1995 @Sneki95 Holmes was plenty emotional, despite what Watson wrote about “the grit in the lens”.

@zenvelo I haven’t reread Wimsey since I started reading Holmes again, but since Dorothy Sayers was an influential Sherlockian, I am now wondering whether there were great differences between the detectives, or if Sayers was writing her own Holmes.