Hi fellow GOGers!

I'm a fan of crime stories and I'm interested in expanding my knowledge in this area of fiction. That, coupled with the GOG key I have laying aroung here, leads us to a giveaway!

I'm a fan of Sherlock Holmes, don't have all of the books (yet!), and I loved the old Granada Series (Jeremy Brett is, for me, THE traditional Sherlock). I also quite enjoyed the more recent retales, with Robert Downey, Jr. and Benedict Cumberbatch.

Agatha Christie's works are another favorites of mine, with Miss Marple and the great Hercule Poirot. Watched some of Geraldine McEwan's movies (got to watch the rest) and most of David Suchet's works (for me THE Hercule Poirot).

In a very different style, comes another favorite, Nero Wolfe, by Rex Stout. Besides several of his books I've also watched the great TV series "A Nero Wolfe Mystery", with Maury Chaykin and Timothy Hutton.

I could also mention Georges Simenon, Frank Gruber, Margery Allingham, among many others.

But I would like to know more. What are your favourite crime stories authors? Favourite tv series? Favourite movies? Tell me your sugestions and what do you enjoy most!

Prize: Sherlock Holmes Secret of the Silver Earing
Rules:
1. You must have joined before January 2013 OR have 50+ rep points.
2. To enter in the giveaway, you must tell me something about your favourite crime stories, crime stories author, crime stories movies, crime stories TV series, ... you get the idea! :)
3. Random.org will be used, since there's no "right" answer.
4. You can repeat other users posts, just tell me what makes YOU tick.
5. The draw will be made Sunday night (GMT time), so that the winner will have enough time to redeem the key (it expires in 2 of July).

This is my first giveaway, so please, be gentle with me! :P

EDIT: the giveaway is now closed. The winner is SirEyeball!

Congratulations on your first giveaway! ;-) I will say that they're a bit addictive so be forewarned ;-p

I'm not in - though I wish your first post in your first GA was an IN but I had to have this whole bundle!!

Anyway, plus one and thanks!

My entry:
The most memorable one for me was Agatha Christie's book where the narrator was the murderer (don't want to spoil the title).

I'm also a fan of a good mystery, though I mostly experience them in video games. My favorite game of all time (and the source of my avatar) is the mystery game Hotel Dusk: Room 215 for the Nintendo DS. If you're a mystery fan, I wholeheartedly recommend you search out a copy of both it and it's sequel Last Window: The Secret of Cape West. The DS has many excellent mystery games, like Trace Memory, 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors, Phoenix Wright, and Professor Layton. On the PC, I've really enjoyed the Gabriel Knight series and basically anything from Wadjet Eye Games. Well, I guess I've rambled on long enough. Thanks again for the giveaway!

I'm not entering and don't really have any good suggestions off the top of my head, but thanks and +1 for the giveaway!

I thoroughly enjoy watching the new Elementary (CBS) for the quirky and unusual stories and the lively twist to the old British coot. The modernization (which probably began with the new Sherlock on PBS, also a close second) puts a great spin on a classic. Somewhere there seemed to be a consensus that these characters should be modernized (Dr. Who anyone?) and I am so glad for it.

Currently enjoying the tv series Castle. I was drawn to the series because of Nathan Fillion (Captain Malcolm Reynolds of Firefly fame). It's about a mystery author who joins a female homicide detective and helps out in her cases.

The main draw of the series to me is the interaction between the two leads. The murder cases are more story-like with their twists and turns.

Thanks for the giveaway.

I really really love the midsomer murders. It's been running for a long time and it still kicks ass.

not in because I already have it

Francis Durbridge's Paul Temple series are by far my favorite, they were created for radio to compete against Agatha Christie works which had a monopoly at the time. I find Paul Temple and Steve far more interesting characters as well as the fact they don't really follow a set formula like Poirot did (at least early on, when it heavily mimicked the "Sherlock-Watson" style of writing.

If you have never listened to them, really in for a treat. They recently re-recorded all the shows that were lost to time.

Congrats on your 1st GA.

Not in, but thanks.

Not in, thanks, but I write here to suggest the stories of Edgar Allan Poe: everyone remember him as a writer of horror stories, but he also wrote much more. Some titles: The Gold-Bug, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The mystery of Marie Roget, The Purloined Letter. Even if it has been translated in your language, read it in English: it's worth ;)

Thanks and +1 for your generosity, WireHead! (great topic for a first giveaway). Please, count me in.

I started reading books by Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Georges Simenon, Rex Stout and Agatha Christie in my childhood, a bit later I went to hard-boiled classics like Dashiell Hammett's, Raymond Chandler's, Mickey Spillane's, et. al. About that time I learned about Alistair McLean (he is known for war stories like The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare, but they are crime books with a WWII or Cold War settings, IMO. I love his way of tell a story in first person, from the point of view of the protagonist). :)

Regarding to more modern authors, Henning Mankell and I also enjoyed the trilogy of Stieg Larsson, although was difficult as I strongly empathized with the female protagonist.

Also, I like books written by women like Patricia Cornwell or Patricia Highsmith, as they often portrait more deeply the personality of both criminals and investigators, or bring a refreshing and humorous point of view about the life of a private eye, like Sue Grafton.

The unusual settings greatly attract me, too: it's the case of Ellis Peters (one of the pseudonyms of Edith Pargeter), with his medieval detective, Brother Cadfael, or The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Alistair Mclean would belong to this category as well).

There are too much writers I've read and could add, but my memory is atrocious and this entry is beginning to become a wall of text. :D

Not in (i have all the holmes games), but I can

1) suggest the Tony Hillerman novels - sleuthing in hopi/navajo societies, by an author who has been praised by ethnographers.

2) nudge you towards http://www.gog.com/forum/general/science_of_deduction_giveaway/page1, a giveaway asking this question about tv series. I suggested the Wallander series there (it's also novels, that I haven't read), and the Cracker series (with Coltrane). I've also discovered the Banacek series from that thread, and it's quite amusing.

Not in cause its not my type of game and I have a backlog longer than a whales dick.

Im not a huge fan of crime stories but I liked the first series of Dexter, though i think it only really skims the surface of crime.

I love the old Sherlock Holmes BBC series with Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes (the real Holmes) in please and +1