The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You
- Tony Aapt by Rex Anderson (Houston)
- Morris Ronald Boyette by Michael Bracken
- Hap Collins & Leonard Pine by Joe R. Lansdale
- Cody by James Reasoner (Fort Worth)
- Rick Buchanan by Jim Beaver
- Ed Earl Burch by Jim Nesbitt (Dallas)
- Ace Edwards by Randy Rawls (Dallas)
- Helmut Erhard by Josh Paschter
- Dixie Flannigan by Chris Rogers (Houston)
- Jack Flippo by Doug J. Swanson
- Charlie Gants by Terry Marlowe (Dallas)
- Jenny Gordon & C.J. Gunn by Jan Grape (Houston/Austin)
- Billy Bob Holland by James Lee Burke (Deaf Smith)
- Jack Kyle by Richard Abshire
- Jim Bob Luke by Joe R. Lansdale
- Annie McIntyre by Samantha Jayne Allen (Garnet)
- Harry McLean by M.E. Proctor (Houston)
- Tres Navarre by Rick Riordan (San Antonio)
- Lee Henry Oswald by Harry Hunsicker (Dallas)
- Rafferty by W. Glenn Duncan (Dallas)
- Deuce Ramsey by Jamie Mandlekau
- Billy Raskolnikov & Ringo by William Dylan Powell (Corpus Christi)
- Dan Roman by Edward Mathis (Butler Wells)
- Truman Smith by Bill Crider (Galveston)
- J.J. Starbuck by Stephen J. Cannell
- Clayton Yankee Taggert by Robert Ray
- Delpha Wade & Tom Phelan by Lisa Standlin (Beaumont)
- David Weather by Tricia Allen (post-WWII Dallas)
- Declan Shaw by M.E. Proctor (Houston)
HONOURARY TEXANS
Or “Wherever I lay my (cowboy) hat, that’s my home.”
- Lucas Hallam by L.J Washburn (Los Angeles)
- Kinky Friedman by Kinky Friedman (New York City, but you couldn’t get the Texas out of Kinky with a crowbar)
FURTHER INVESTIGATION
- Welcome to Texas, y’all.
Michael Bracken’s Presentation at the 2019 Shamus Awards Banquet, Dallas, Texas, 2019 - The Eyes of Texas: Private Eyes from The Panhandle to The Piney Woods (2019, edited by Michael Bracken) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Private eye tales from the Lone star state by Trey R. Barker, Chuck Brownman, Michael Chandos, John M. Floyd, Debra H. Goldstein, James A. Hearn, Richard Helms, Robert S. Levinson, Scott Montgomery, Sandra Murphy, Josh Pachter, Michael Pool, Graham Powell, William Dylan Powell, Stephen D. Rogers, Mark Troy, and Bev Vincent.
Preliminary list compiled by Kevin Burton Smith. Further suggestions and comments welcome.
