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[lexin]

Poll #11054 Which detective would you like to be?

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 22

Which of these fictional detectives would you like to be? (You can explain why in comments.)

Simon Templar (The Saint)
0 (0.0%)

Sherlock Holmes (BBC)
5 (22.7%)

Sherlock Holmes (ACD canon)
0 (0.0%)

Sherlock Holmes (other)
0 (0.0%)

Miss Marple
7 (31.8%)

Hercule Poirot
2 (9.1%)

Inspector Clouseau (The Pink Panther)
0 (0.0%)

James Rockford (The Rockford Files)
1 (4.5%)

Kojak
0 (0.0%)

Jessica Fletcher (Murder She Wrote)
3 (13.6%)

Suzanne 'Pepper' Anderson (Police Woman)
0 (0.0%)

DCI Jane Tennison (Prime Suspect)
1 (4.5%)

Other (explain in comments)
2 (9.1%)

Would hate to be a detective (explain in comments)
1 (4.5%)

Comments

[coughingbear]

Hah, clicked on Miss Marple and was happy to see I am not alone in wishing to be the tough, clever and cynical one.

[lexin]

And yet she's such a nice lady, too.

[mecurtin]

Quincy, M.E. Because detecting is more fun with SCIENCE!

[lexin]

I forgot about him. I knew there was someone I should have included.

[kalypso]

Hanging round crime scenes trying to work things out? I think not...

[lexin]

I can see your point of view, there.

[cereta]

Jessica Fletcher is rich and smart and beautiful and has connections everywhere and is everyone's aunt and never doubts that powerful men should take what she has to say seriously. Why wouldn't I want to be her?

Miss Marple is awesome, but I don't want to be that old yet.

[lexin]

I chose Sherlock because he is just so clever, but she would be my second choice.

[dorothy1901]

Jessica Fletcher is also courteous and considerate of others. She connects with people easily. She's sweet as well as strong.

Also appealing is the idea of living in a small town in Maine, yet traveling all over the world.

[tazlet]

She was my choice for all those reasons.

[krait]

Other: Lord Peter Wimsey.

[lexin]

Oh, yes, I'd forgotten about him. Urbane and rich - got to be a possible choice.

[stranger]

Also other: Harriet Vane. She goes through hell, but she comes out the other side with Peter Wimsey, knowing she deserves him and (just as importantly) vice versa.

[lexin]

I forgot about her, too. Got to be a possible choice.

[lyorn]

I don't know all of these -- there might be one that fit -- but I suspect I'm not cut out to be a detective. I hate interacting with people I do not know, my bluffing skill seems dependent on sunspots or something, and I have a very hard time to get myself to go anywhere I'm not invited. *And* I tend to theorise ahead of my data, and in detecting, you cannot easily test your hypothesis to fail.

I'd make a better back office detective than protagonist. Give me a logistics problem, research, or data analysis.

[lexin]

I don't mind interacting with people I don't know or going to places where I'm not invited or even wanted (being a visiting officer for my employer will cure anyone of that in pretty short order), but I'm not logical. And I do so want to be logical.

I chose Sherlock because I want his observational powers. In reality, like you, I'm a lot better at analysis of things like business records. I'd be much better as a fraud investigator than as a detective per se.