recommendations for Monk/Columbo-style books?

[c***@gmail.com]

I'm not a regular mystery book reader, but I'm wondering if someone
could recommend an author or some titles with detective/investigator
characters similar in style to Monk and Columbo, i.e. apparently
bumbling, inept people who have a keen logical mind.

Thanks!

[Janet Puistonen]

Post by c***@gmail.com
I'm not a regular mystery book reader, but I'm wondering if someone
could recommend an author or some titles with detective/investigator
characters similar in style to Monk and Columbo, i.e. apparently
bumbling, inept people who have a keen logical mind.
Thanks!

Perhaps the Inspector Morse series by Colin Dexter?

Another possibility is Jane Langton's Homer Kelly, although they don't have
that procedural element that Monk and Columbo share.

[Eric Garcia]

Post by Janet Puistonen

Post by c***@gmail.com
I'm not a regular mystery book reader, but I'm wondering if someone
could recommend an author or some titles with detective/investigator
characters similar in style to Monk and Columbo, i.e. apparently
bumbling, inept people who have a keen logical mind.
Thanks!

Perhaps the Inspector Morse series by Colin Dexter?
Another possibility is Jane Langton's Homer Kelly, although they don't have
that procedural element that Monk and Columbo share.

And, of course, there's always the MONK novel series by Lee Goldberg.
Can't get more similar-in-style to Monk than, well, Monk!

emg

[Rik Shepherd]

Post by Janet Puistonen
Another possibility is Jane Langton's Homer Kelly, although they don't have
that procedural element that Monk and Columbo share.

And a lot - but not all - of the Kellys have the Columbo style "the reader
knows who the villain is from the start" thing.

[curmudgeon]

Dalziel & Pascoe series by Reginald Hill

Inspector Frost series by W.D.Wingfield

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There are no Enemies in Science just Anomalies

[Janet Puistonen]

Post by curmudgeon
Dalziel & Pascoe series by Reginald Hill
Inspector Frost series by W.D.Wingfield

I don't know about Frost, but I don't think there is any pretense of
bumbling in the Hill series.

[vj]

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]apparently
]bumbling, inept people who have a keen logical mind.

Jane Haddam's Gregor Demarkian series!

[Peter Meilinger]

Post by c***@gmail.com
I'm not a regular mystery book reader, but I'm wondering if someone
could recommend an author or some titles with detective/investigator
characters similar in style to Monk and Columbo, i.e. apparently
bumbling, inept people who have a keen logical mind.

If you're willing to read about how the other half lives, you might
like Donald Westlake's Dortmunder books. He's an absolutely
brilliant criminal planner whose plans never run as smoothly
as they should.

Pete

[K Barrett]

'Holmes on the Range' by Steve Hockensmith. Two cowboys from Montana, one
eduKated one illiterate solve a murder by employing Holmes deductive
techniques. The Illitrate cowboy is, of course, Holmes.

K Barrett

Post by c***@gmail.com
I'm not a regular mystery book reader, but I'm wondering if someone
could recommend an author or some titles with detective/investigator
characters similar in style to Monk and Columbo, i.e. apparently
bumbling, inept people who have a keen logical mind.
Thanks!