Literary Detectives Deathmatch: Who Will Win?

It began, as so many things, with an argu­ment. One of those tedious ones, you know how they go: who would win in a fight between this fic­tion­al char­ac­ter and that? We enjoy these half-drunken ami­ca­ble dis­agree­ments, not least because they rely on obscure knowl­edge of the per­son­al­i­ty traits of fig­ures who never exist­ed.

Our con­ver­sa­tion turned to lit­er­ary detec­tives. What would hap­pen, we mused, if there were some kind of futur­is­tic death­match between them? Who would win?

There was only one thing for it. We wrote names, pulled them out of a bag, and sketched out the brack­ets. And then the bat­tles com­menced.

Here's how it played out on a friend's kitchen table, thanks to the able assis­tance of half a bot­tle of whisky. May the most fero­cious lit­er­ary detec­tive win...........

Literary Detectives Deathmatch: Who Will Win?

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