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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Characters from Different Books Who Should Team Up, a topic suggested by Cathy at What Cathy Read Next. Wait a minute, that’s me! I felt obliged to make an extra effort with this one so have come up with characters I think would make great crime-fighting partnerships.
- Sherlock Holmes and Christopher John Francis Boone from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, who together should be able to solve the mystery in ‘The Adventure of Silver Blaze’ by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Dr John Watson and Anthony Horowitz’s Anthony Horowitz from the The Word is Murder – two literary sidekicks probably keen to take centre stage
- Colin Dexter’s Endeavour Morse and Dorothy L. Sayer’s Lord Peter Wimsey who, both being Oxford University men, should be able to solve the latest murder to take place in ‘the city of dreaming spires’
- Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple and Alexander McCall Smith’s Mma Ramotswe, both expert observers of village life and of the clues that will solve a crime
- I think J. K. Rowling’s Hermione Grainger and Cormoran Strike would be magic together
- Agatha Christie’s famously fastidious Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and Roger Hargreaves’ Little Miss Tidy I’m confident would clear up the messiest of mysteries
- Ian Fleming’s James Bond and Lee Child’s Jack Reacher were surely born to take on the world’s baddies together and, if not, they could always challenge each other to a cage fight ala Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk
- Sir Ian Rankin’s John Rebus and Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander who, if they couldn’t solve the case, could at least drown their sorrows together
- Edgar Allan Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin and Wilkie Collins’ Sergeant Cuff who, having apprehended the culprit, could discuss which of them was the first fictional detective
- And finally, in the event you find yourself accused of a crime, Mr Jaggers from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Sir Wilfrid Robarts from Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie would make a formidable defence team
What fictional dream teams did you come up with?
On What Cathy Read Next last week
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