Say it isn’t so! This is Wonders & Marvels’ last giveaway in our History of the Fairy Tale week. We hope you’ve enjoyed our bookish offerings and remind you, there is still time to enter many of the contests. Now, without further ado, we present to you:
In The Sisters Grimm series by Michael Buckley, descendents of the Brothers Grimm – Sabrina and Daphne — are detectives who investigate crimes that take place in the world of fairy tales.
Take Book Seven: Picking up after the dramatic cliffhanger that ended Book Six, the sisters are naturally quite relieved when their parents awake from their sleeping spell. But their happy reunion is short-lived, thanks to the appearance of Scarlet Hand and Prince Charming’s Everafter army. As the family works to help the prince’s ragtag group of rebels and protect their friends, Sabrina comes face-to-face with the family’s deadliest enemy: the mysterious Master.
Dear readers, we have five signed copies in the series that will be randomly selected for our giveaway. Enter this contest by commenting no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on December 24, 2009 in response to this question: Real or fictitious, who is your favorite detective? Good luck! (Sorry, at this time books can only be shipped within the U.S.)
Trixie Belden! She was slightly overweight, struggling with algebra, struggling, always, to keep her stockings from developing runs (when she wasn’t busy trying to figure out if she was tanned enough to get away WITHOUT wearing stockings!) In other words–a heroine to whom I could totally relate.
Rene’ Nilsson
Oh, wow. That’s a hard one. Does Thursday Next count as a detective?
Amelia Peabody Emerson (and family) also make for fun reading.
Others I really enjoy are Adam Dalgliesh, Lord Peter Wimsey, and George Felse (Ellis Peters).
I’m going to have to keep checking back. I may find more books to add to my ‘to be read’ pile. Not that that’s in danger of being finished off any time soon…
Pamela Toler
Harriet Vane: the first of the nerdy, over-educated female detectives.
http://kjankowski.blogspot.com Kathryn Jankowski
I enjoy San Francisco PI Sharon McCone mysteries by Marcia Muller.
http://krisbordessa.com Kris Bordessa
Is there any other? Nancy Drew, of course!
Lindsey
If I can only name one, I’d have to go with Nancy Drew!
Lou Ann
Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple…no, Hercule Poirot….no, Sherlock Holmes…
or maybe…oh, too many fantastic characters to choose just one!
Kriti
Miss Marple! Or perhaps Tommy and Tuppence. Both Agatha Christie.
My favorite detective! It used to be Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple but as of this year, my new favorite detective is young Flavia de Luce from Alan Bradley’s The Sweetness At The Bottom of the Pie.
Thanks for the entry!
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http://www.tarotbyarwen.com Arwen
My favorite detective is Nancy Drew! Yes, so predictable, but I devoured those books as a child.
Linda Harkins
Without a doubt it’s Yashim Togalu! He’s the dashing eunuch, a freelance detective in service to the seraskier under the sultan, who brings to life nineteenth-century Istanbul in Goodwin’s THE JANISSARY TREE followed by THE SNAKE STONE.
http://www.primary-sources.com Kim Pearson
Maisie Dobbs, in the series by Jacqueline Winspeare, set in 1920s London.
Why, Hercule Poirot of course! Such a classic sleuth.
However, for purely lacivious slething pleasure–Stone Barrington–Stuart Woods Lawyer cum PI cum ex NY Policeman is on top!
(If a girl should be so lucky!)
http://thetruebookaddict.blogspot.com/ Michelle Miller/the true book addict
Hercule Poirot from the incomparable mind of Agatha Christie…I just adore him! I read the first Sisters Grimm book for my children’s lit class last year and I really loved it. I want to read the whole series to my sons too!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Breiab
I think my favorite detective would be Mike Hammer.
Candy French
Miss Marple! Even when I was young, I thought that old lady was hilarious!