"@Britta: You like George Gently?" asked Tony Van Helsing in a comment on a comment (see: we read them).
Do I? Do I like George Gently? About the person I'm not quite sure. I like the TV-series very much, discovered it just recently. I see and read a lot of detective fiction, above you see a little choice fom the DVDs I have.
We endowed 6000 German (written by Germans, no translations) detective novels to the Schiller Literaturarchiv in Marbach. Normally they only harbour "High Literature". But our books were very old German detective novels (the first written before Edgar Allan Poe's famous short story), and they are double valuable because nobody ever collected them - the fate of "Low Literature", though produced in masses, is to be thrown away. Lots of them date very easily,
some become classics.
Though even a classic can be modernized:
At the moment I delve into "A Touch of Frost", interspersed with the umptien times meeting with "Inspector Morse".
Had you asked me: "You like Inspector Morse?" my answer would have been a clear: "Yes! I love him!"
PS:
If anybody of you will recommend a detective TV-series I might not know, PLEASE do it! The winter evenings will be long...
PPS: Thank you for your P.D.James tip, dear Anonymous: of course I should have mentioned Commander Adam Dalgliesh (and a few others :-)
