Thrilling Detective Trivia
“I make lists,” she said, stating the obvious. “I always did.”
— Last Night in Montreal
Sam Spade’s hat size? Marlowe’s socks? A list of Left-Handed Lithuanian Lesbian Eyes?
You might find out here…Â
THE HALL OF FAME
THE P.I. POLL
AUTHORS & CREATORS
THEY ALSO SERVED
MY SCRAPBOOK
- A Cornucopia of Tear Sheets, Illustrations, Photos, Scribbles & Other Crap That I Think is Way Cool
MY BOOKSHELF
- A Salute to Some of the Books I Love (or Lust After)
MURDER IN THE LIBRARY
- A Staggering List of Books, Magazines, Reference Sources and the Like. (What? You thought I made this all up?)
WIT & WISDOM
- What the hell is a private eye, anyway?
- And what the hell do you mean by “Hard-boiled,” for that matter?
- And while we’re at it, what the hell is “Noir”?
- According to the Gospel
- “The Simple Art of Murder” The Gospel, According to Raymond Chandler
- Lighten Up, Ray! Directives from Chairman Chandler
- I Hear Voices Quotations from the Work of Raymond Chandler
- When You’re Quoted, You’ll Take It and Like It! Private Dicks Say the Darnedest Things…
- Hello, I Must Be Going Great Moments of Unconciousness
- Thoughts on the Future of the Genre
- On Writing Authors Say the Darnedest Things…
- Mistress Christa’s Ten Rules to Write Noir DO NOT DISOBEY!
- Props & Peeves! Private Eye Stories from A Real-Life P.I.
- Oooops! The Most Common Mistakes in Private Eye Fiction
- Never Happen The Real Deal on TV Cops by Charlie Shafer
- Work Lessons Everything I Know About the Job, I Learned From P.I. Novels
- Life Lessons Everything I Know, I Learned From P.I. Novels
- Rafferty’s Rules
- There’s an old Polish proverb that says… The Proverbs of Banacek
- Please allow him to introduce himself… Time To Meet Harry Kenmare–In His Own Words!
- Frank Ryan’s 10 Golden Rules For Successful Armed Robbery Courtesy of Elmore Leonard
- Father Knox’s Decalogue The Ten Rules of (Golden Age) Detective Fiction
- S.S. Van Dine’s Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories More Golden Age Hooey
- Frank Gruber’s Sure-Fire 11-Point Formula
- Lester Dent’s  Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot
- It’s my prerogative…
HISTORY
- The Timeline
- True Detectives Famous–or Infamous–Real-Life Eyes
- Early Eyes Early Historical & Literary Influences
- Who’s on First? The First Hard-Boiled Private Eye Story
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes Private Detectives & Other Miscreants
- The Top 100 Hard-Boiled Characters of the Twentieth Century
- Robert Randisi’s Survey of Your Favorite P.I.s From rec.arts.mystery (1997)
- 100 Eyes of The Mystery Scene Era (so far…) (2007)
- Dick Lochte’s Top 20 Private Eye Novels (2010; revised 2017)
- The 14 Best Private Eye Novels of All Time (2012)
- Twenty-One Private Eye Classics From The Reader’s Guide to the Private Eye Novel
- The Hardboiled Era (1929-58) A Checklist from Geoffrey O’Brien’s Hardboiled America
- The Hard-Boiled Dick A Personal Checklist By James Sandoe
- Banned! The Naughty List
- The Mushroom Jungle The Private Eye Denizens of the Mushroom Jungle
SOMETHING FUNNY ABOUT THE EYES
- Are You Trying to Be Funny? The Funniest Eyes
- Let ‘er Rip! Spoofs, Parodies, Essays and Articles
- In the Tradition of Hammett, Chandler, Macdonald… and Snoopy?
- MAD About You Dept: What, me shamus? Parodies and satires of TV Eyes in MAD Magazine
- If Mickey Spillane Wrote NANCY..
- Arlo, Janis & Spenser  Plugs for Hire Department
- Cinematic Pie in the Eye The Best Private Eye Spoofs on Film
- See Ya in the Funny Pages P.I. Spoofs & Callouts in Cartoons and Comic Strips
- It’s Hammer Time! Send-ups & Put-Downs of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer
- Last Night I Shot a P.I. in My Pajamas… Groucho Marx, P.I.?
THE PULPS & THE SHORT STORIES
- The Crime & Detective Pulps Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
- The Best Crime & Detective Pulps An Honour Roll
- Beyond the Pulps The Slicks, the Digests and the Mystery Magazines
- The Great Pulp Eyes
- Rogues’ Gallery Erle Stanley Gardner’s Series Characters
- Good Ol’ Holyoke, Mass. The Place Where the Pulps Came From
- Some Great Short Story Series Featuring Private Eyes, from the Pulps and Beyond
- The Real Black Mask Boys Captured on film!
- The Fictioneers Role Call
- Published in Black Mask Some Significant Contributors & Other Writers of Interest
- Writers Who Were Published in Dime Detective
- Crime & Detective Fiction in The American Magazine
- Crime & Detective Fiction in The Saturday Evening Post
- “Pays good rates on acceptance” The 1937 Writer’s Market Listing For Black Mask
- Do’s and Don’ts for Detective Writers Dealing With Sex By The Editors of Spicy Detective Magazine
- Richard A. Moore’s Memories of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine
- The New Black Mask A Review and Tribute by Mark Coggins
- Private Eyes by the Number P.I.s in Men’s Adventure Books
- The Weirdest Pulp Eyes
- The Pulps and Beyond Defective Detectives
- The Twenty Best Pulp Anthologies
- The Best Anthologies of Hard-Boiled, Noir & Pulp Reprints
- The Best Anthologies of Original P.I. Stories
- Other Mystery Anthologies Worth Looking For
- The Akashic Noir Series It’s a Noir World, After All
- The Mystery Writers of America Anthologies
- Best Detective Stories of the Year
- One-Short Wonders The Private Eye, Briefly:Â A Short Suspects List, Compiled by Martin Ross
- Pulps of Interest: Private Eye Illustrated
BOOKS & PUBLISHING
“All that book talk, that’s a lot of ma-hah-hah!”
— Duke Pastrami (Dan Duryea) in Ball of Fire
- Twenty-Five Best Private Eye Novels of All-Time From The Fine Art of Murder
- Joe’s Twenty-Five Fave Detective Novels As chosen by Joe Lofgreen of Joe’s Detective Pages
- Twenty-One Private Eye Classics From The Reader’s Guide to the Private Eye Novel
- Robert Randisi’s 1997 PI Survey Results
- The 14 Best Private Eye Novels of All Time (2012)
- Some of the Great Detectives Eyes Included in Maxim Jakubowski’s 100 Great Detectives
- Twelve Percent P.I. Novels among H.R.F. Keating’s Crime & Mystery-The 100 Best Books
- Eyes Cream Geoff Bradley’s Favourite 1st Person Private Eye Novels
- Best-Selling Eyes P.I. Novels Among U.S. Bestsellers 1895-1975
- The Great Series
- One and Done Private Eyes Who Only Appeared in One Novel
- Stand Alone P.I. Novels (Poll Results)
- Ten Hard-To-Find One-Shots
- Banned! The Naughty List
- The Big Reads The Longest Private Eye Books
- The Big Stretch The Longest Series
- Blasts from the Past Some Great Publishers of Hard-boiled & Detective Fiction
- A Turn of the Fawcett Some Gold Medal Eyes
- Some Current Publishers of Hard-boiled and Detective Fiction
- Some Current Publishers of Short Mystery Fiction
- Harlequin’s Secret Shame Sometimes they liked it rough…
- Dedicated to the One I Love… And Some of My Other Favourite Book Dedications
- Paperback Heroes Some Great PBO Eyes
- The Jack Reacher Industrial Complex So this big guy walks into a bar…
- Paperback to hardcover
- Fall from grace-Hardcover to paperback
- Great cover art
- Great covers-Cheese division
- Not-so-great covers
- Dare to Judge This Book Some Great Pulp & Paperback Cover Artists
- Dare to Judge This Book Some Great Pulp & Paperback Cover Artists
- Dare to Judge This Book Some More Great Pulp & Paperback Cover Artists
- Some Great Dell Mapback Private Eye Covers
- Bitch, bitch, bitch… Raymond Chandler complains about his book’s cover
- Series Title Gimmicks
- Don’t I Know You from Somewhere? Great (or at least memorable) Openings
- So Long, It’s Been Good To Know Ya! Great (or at least memorable) Conclusions
- Gracenotes, Intentional or Otherwise Some Great Series Conclusions
- Everyone Into The Pool Books By Multiple Authors
- Reader, Take Heed! Most Over-used Blurbs
- Kiddie Pulp Get ’em While They’re Young
- Kiddie Pulp, Part II Portrait of the Detective as a Young Sleuth
- It’s All in the Game: P.I. TV Tie-ins
- It’s All in the Game: P.I. Movie Tie-ins
- The Cheese Stands Alone Alternative P.I. Classics (Poll Results)
- The Mushroom Jungle The Private Eye Denizens of the Mushroom Jungle
- The Rara-Avis Top 100 Hard-Boiled Characters of the Twentieth CenturyÂ
- The Rara-Avis Blown Away List of Hard-Boiled Writers (1999)
- The Hardboiled Era (1929-58)Â A Checklist from Hardboiled America
- Mysterious Profiles Biographical Quickies from Mysterious Press/Open Road
- The Best P.I.s of the 90’s (April 1998 Poll Results)
WRITERS & WRITING
- Schmucks with Underwoods Authors & Creators
- Ron Goulart’s Informal Reading List From The Hardboiled Dicks
- Father Knox’s Decalogue The Ten Rules of (Golden Age) Detective Fiction
- S.S. Van Dine’s Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories More Golden Age Hooey
- Frank Gruber’s Sure-Fire 11-Point Formula
- The Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot
- Decoding Agatha Christie How to Spot the Killer in One of Her Novels
- Gone Too Soon They Coulda Been Contenders
- The Rara-Avis Blown Away List of Hard-Boiled Writers (1999)
- On Writing Authors Say the Darnedest Things…
- Telling Lies for Fun and Profit Lawrence Block Writes (and Writes) About Writing
- Rest in Pieces The Fictionalized Lives of Private Eye Writers
- True Detectives Non-fiction by Real-Life Eyes
- True Detectives Real-Life Eyes Who’ve Written P.I. Novels
- The Five Most Realistic PIs In Fiction According to Elizabeth Breck
- True Detective “The Memoirs of a Private Detective” by Dashiel Hammett
- Raymond Chandler’s Ten Commandments For the Detective Novel
- True Love, Neither Tranished nor Afraid A Mash Note from Raymond Chandler
- Lighten Up, Ray! Quotations from Chairman Chandler
- Do’s & Don’ts for Detective Writers Dealing With Sex From Spicy Detective
- Mistress Christa’s Ten Rules to Write Noir
- Thundering Clichés By the editors of The Thrilling Detective Web Site
- Never Happen The Real Deal on TV Cops by Charlie Shafer
- The Backstabbers Writers on Other Writers
- The Pirates of Plagiarism
- Pen Names
- Who Was Nicholas Carter? And who wrote all those Nick Carter stories?
- Who Was Brett Halliday? Hmmm…sounds like a case for Mike Shayne
- Most P.I.s Created by One Person
- Most Prolific
- Everyone Into The Pool Books By Multiple Authors & Other Private Eye Team-Ups
- What Went Where How Chandler Cannibalized His Own Work
- Short Story Writers
- Most Short Stories
- Best Short Stories
- You’re a Mean Man with a Typewriter, Sister The Hard-boiled Lady Writers of the Pulps
- Texas Winds The Eyes of James M. Reasoner Are Upon You
- Dashiell Hammett’s Introduction to The Maltese Falcon (1934 Edition)
- Mickey Spillane’s Fan Letter to Carroll John Daly
- The Children of Travis McGee The Literary Descendants of Our Man Trav…
- In the Shadow of the Wolfe Variations on a Theme, Originally Composed by Rex Stout
- If Mickey Spillane Wrote NANCY…
- Ghost Writers Have Pen, Will Travel
- Death is Not the End Private Eyes Who Just Won’t Stay Dead (Even If Their Creators Are)
- They Wrote What? Famous Writers Who Have Dipped Their Toes in the P.I. Pool
- A Turn for the Verse Poets Who Wrote Private Eye Fiction
- “Apologia Pro Vita Sua” by Rex Stout
- Strange Sisters, Indeed Male P.I. Writers Who Wrote Lesbian Pulp Fiction
- Burning the Midnight Oil Together P.I. Writers Who Are Couples
- Anthony Boucher’s Proposed Code For Mystery Reviewers
- The Ten Commandments of Book Reviewing
- The Paper Chase Libraries and Other Sources for Scholarly Research
FILMS
- The Big Screen: Celluoid Eyes A Timeline
- Thoughts on Private Eye Films
- Fifteen Best Private Eye Movies As chosen by Max Allan Collins
- The 20 Best Film Noirs With Private Eyes in Them
- Brad Lang’s Ten Favorite Detective, Hard-boiled & Noir Films A little slice of Hardboiled Heaven.
- Dick Lochte’s Top 20 Private Eye Movies (2010)
- The Blue Murder List Twenty Other Great P.I. Flicks
- This Turkey For Hire The Worst P.I. Films
- So It’s Come to This… The Film Geeks’ Top Ten P.I. Films. James & Gustavo have spoken.
- What Is Noir?
- The Great Noir Films
- Just Passing Through Memorable Eyes in Non-P.I. Flicks
- Those ’70s Shows The Decade the Private Eye Film Came of Age
- The Great Series
- The Biggest Sleeps
- The Great Lost B’s
- The Best Original Screenplays
- The Best Adaptations
- ACTING! The Best Film Eyes Great Performances
- What Were They Thinking? Miscast TV and Film Eyes
- The Casting Couch How About…
- The Casting Ouch! Unlikely P.I.s (No, Really!)
- Big Scores Classic Scores from PI Flicks
- David Thomson’s Suspects
- Chandler on Film
- Films Chandler Worked On
- Part of the Nastiness Now Actors Who Played Philip Marlowe
- Auteur! Auteur! The Great P.I. Directors
- The Best Scenes
- Don’t I Know You from Somewhere? Great (or at least memorable) Openings
- So Long, It’s Been Good To Know Ya! Great (or at least memorable) Closings
- Gunsels, Dames, etc… The Great Supporting Characters
- Gee, Let’s Keep Doing This Until We Get It Right Remakes
- On the Trail of The Black Bird… The Whereabouts of the “Real” Maltese Falcon
- Writers Who Worked on the “Hammett” Screenplay
- Cinematic Pie in the Eye The Best Private Eye Spoofs
- The Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid Cheatsheet Films used in the making of the film.
- Dressed to Kill Classic Crime & Noir Films That Edith Head Designed Costumes For
- Once More to the Well Film & Television’s Most Valuable Players
- The Cheaper the Crook The Crime Films of Elisha Cook Jr.
- The Unintentional Comedies
- Boffo Box Office! The Hits
- The Flops
- Great Lines from Private Eye Flicks
- Great Lines Hammett Division
- Oscar Winners
- The Neo-B’s: Noir in the Nineties Non-PI Division
- It’s All in the Game P.I. Movie Tie-ins
- Disney for Hire: Mickey Mouse, P.I. & Other Private Eyes of the Disney Universe
- Coming Distractions Film/TV Editor Chris Baldemor is On the Case
- Pass the Popcorn YouTube Treasures. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow…
RADIO
- The Favourite Dicks of Old-Time Radio
- The Great Radio Eyes
- Brought to You By…
- The Longest Running
- The Greatest Intros
- From Other Sources…
- Radio Links
- “The Chargogagogmanchogagogchabunamungamog Caper”
- The Adventures of Harry Nile Talkin’ with Jim French & Phil Harper
- Murder in the Library: Radio
TELEVISION: WATCHING THE DETECTIVES
- One of the Fifty Things TV Guide‘s Matt Roush Loves About TV #41: Private Eyes
- Thrilling Detective’s Best and Worst of the TV Eyes (Poll Results)
- The Top Ten Private Eye Shows from The Best of Crime & Detective TV
- Dick Lochte’s Top 20 TV Private Eyes (2010; revised 2017)
- TV Eyes: The Series Including mini-series, and TV-movie series
- TV Eyes: Made-for-the-Tube Movies, Pilots & Straight to DVD Releases
- The TV Timeline TV Series in Chronological Order
- The TV GUIDE Gallery They’ve Got You Covered
- Peter Gunn: The Television First That Dare Not Speak Its Name Oh, Mother!
- St. Peter & The Others The Ten Coolest TV Eyes
- 77 Sunset Rip-Off The Clones and the Rip-Offs
- The Great TV Eyes
- The Early Shows
- Shows Adapted from Radio
- The Longest Running
- Brilliant But Cancelled 14 Private Eye Shows That Coulda Been Contenders
- Not Brilliant AND Cancelled Mercy Killings?
- Not Quite Ready for Primetime Pilots That Didn’t Fly & Spin-offs That Didn’t Spin
- Take Me to the Pilot  Development Hell Department (2005-06)
- Public Broadcast, Private Eyes Private Detectives from PBS’ Mystery! & Masterpiece Theatre
- Mysterious facts you wouldn’t know if it weren’t for TV…
- The Casting Ouch Unlikely P.I.s
- What Were They Thinking? Miscast TV and Film Eyes
- Big Scores on a Little Box Classic Scores from PI TV Shows
- P.I. Theme Songs that Hit the Charts
- The A Team Stephen J. Cannell & Roy Huggins
- Private Eye Shows Stephen J. Cannell Was Involved In
- This is Jim Rockford… Some memorable messages left on Rockford’s answering machine
- What Hath Rockford Wrought? The Other Eyes of The Rockford Files
- There’s an old Polish proverb that says… The Proverbs of Banacek
- Veronica (Mars) Speaks A selection of quotes from the snarky one.
- Once More to the Well Film & Television’s Most Valuable P.I. Players
- Crossover Hangover TV Eyes Who Dropped By on Other Shows
- MAD About YOU Department: What, me Shamus? P.I. Parodies & satires in MAD Magazine
- The Best Pilots
- The Best TV Movies
- It’s All in the Game: P.I. TV Tie-ins
- Emmy Winners
- Urich for Hire The Private Eye Shows of Robert Urich
- Hidden Tracks Private Eye TV Shows… with Real! Live! Rockers!
- Coming Distractions Film/TV Editor Chris Baldemor is On the Case
- Pass the Popcorn YouTube Treasures. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow…
- Watching the (Private) Detectives Rolling Stone Picks 10 Classics
Other Media, Other Diversions
ART FOR ART’S SAKE
- Art for Art’s Sake Artists Inspired by Noir
- Dare to Judge This Book Some Great Pulp & Paperback Cover Artists
- Dare to Judge This Book Some Great Pulp & Paperback Cover Artists
- Dare to Judge This Book Some More Great Pulp & Paperback Cover Artists
- Some Great Dell Mapback Private Eye Covers
SUDDENLY THE AIR WAS FULL OF MUSIC
- Suddenly the Air Was Full of Music The Private Eye Mix Tape
- Suddenly the Air Was Full of Music The Hard-Boiled Record Collection
- Suddenly the Air Was Full of Music Albums & Soundtracks to Put you in Some kinda Mood
- Big Scores Classic Scores from PI Flicks
- Big Scores on a Little Box Classic Scores from PI TV Shows
- It’s Only Words Lyrics to Some Songs About Private Eyes.
- How Does It Feel? References to Crime and Detective Fiction and Films Found in Bob Dylan’s Work
- How Does It Feel? Revisited Private eye novels whose titles are lifted from Bob Dylan’s work
- Drive-Bys Private Eyes in Hip-Hop
- John Zorn’s Liner Notes from Spillane It Was Easy
- Crime Fiction… with GUITARS!  Steve Wynn’s Riding Shotgun
- Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice Playlist As Chosen By the Master Himself
- Hidden Tracks Private Eye TV Shows… with Real! Live! Rockers!
HOW GRAPHIC DO YA WANNA GET?
- Eyes Featured in Comic Books, Strips and Graphic Novels
- Comic Books, Strips & Graphic Novels
- ZUT! European Comic Books, Strips, Graphic Novels, Albums & Bandes Désinées
- Detective Comics Private eyes who have shown up in DC Comics.
- To the Batcave! P.I. Writers who Have Contributed to the Canon
- Dark Horse Presents Gumshoes introduced in the comic anthology series.
- Eyes on the No-Prize Private Eyes of the Marvel Universe
- Drawn That Way Ten or So Lady Eyes from the Comics
- Feature Books Some of the Most Collectable P.I. Comics of All!
- See Ya in the Funny Papers!!! P.I. Spoofs & Callouts in Comics & Cartoons
- See Ya in the Funny Papers!!! (The P.I. Poll) Comic Book Eyes
- Arlo, Janis & Spenser  Plugs for Hire Department
- Let’s Get Animated: Cartoon Eyes
- Thrilling Detective Web Comics! The Magnificent Seven!
ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE
GAMES & TOYS
- The P.I. Toy Chest Treasures from the Past
- Assembly Required Some Cool P.I. Model Car Kits
- Oh, The Games People Play Then Some Classic Private Eye & Detective Board Games
- Oh, The Videogames People Played Then (Part Une) Some Early P.I. Videogames (1988-2002)
- Oh, The Videogames People Played Then (Part Deux) Some Early P.I. Videogames (1988-2002)
- Oh, The Games People Play Now Some Newer P.I. and Noir Games
- The Game’s A-foot! Puzzles and Other P.I. Games
- It Figures…Â Private Eye Figures & Figurines
FOOD & DRINK
- I Got Some Cooking to Do Cookbooks by Mystery Authors (and their detectives)
STAMPS
- Signed, Sealed and Delivered P.I. Postage Stamps
THE WEB
GIFTS & COLLECTABLES
- Mystery Links: Collecting & Other Diversions Web Games, Mystery Parties, Stamps, Books, etc.
- Gimcracks, Geegaws and Other Dinguses Private Eye Collectibles
TRAVEL
- Wining, Dining and Sight-Seeing Places to Visit on the P.I. World Tour
- Wherever I Lay My Hat… Private Eye Watering Holes and Hangouts
- Conventions & Fan EventsÂ
NON-FICTION: ESSAYS, REVIEW & OTHER STUFF
- Welcome to L.A. Opening Remarks by Robert Crais
- The New Pulp!: A Tribute To Blue Murder Essay by Kevin Burton Smith
- Nero Wolfe: A Social Commentary on the US Essay by Marcia Kiser
- The Mitch Tobin Series Overview by Bryan Schingle
- In His Shadow by Dave Zeltserman Review by Mario Taboada
- The Adventures of Cardigan Review by Mario Taboada
- Memories of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Reminisces By Richard A. Moore
- Spenser and Hawk: A Study of Good and Evil in the Fiction of Robert B. Parker Essay by Gerald So
- The Donald Strachey Series by Richard Stevenson Overview by D.L. Browne
- Lost Light by Michael Connelly Review by David White
- Hardbroiled, edited by Michael Bracken Review by James R. Winter
- The Last Place by Laura Lippman Review by James R. Winter
- The Narrows by Michael Connelly Review by Ron DeSourdis
- Blood is the Sky by Steve Hamilton Review by James R. Winter
- No Time To Mourn by Tim Wohlforth Review by Dale Stoyer
- Eve Missing by Ralph Pezzullo Review by Dale Stoyer
- Tonight I Said Goodbye by Michael Koryta Review by James R. Winter
- See the full list…
RANTS
- Don’t Call ’em a Bargain Those Dirt-Cheap Ebook Compilations
THE EYES
THE NAME GAME
- The Greatest P.I Names
- The Worst P.I. Names
- No-Name Eyes
- Alternative Nomenclature
- What’s in a Name? The Origins of Some Great Names of Eyes
- What’s in a Name? Nick-Named Eyes
- Because Dash Riprock Was Already Taken Manly Monickers
- The Big List
- Names and Titles in a Chandleresque Vein
- Joes to the Left of Me, Joes to the Right… A bunch of dicks named Joe.
- The Three Barney Glines of William Ard
- Past Their Expiry Date? Private Eyes That Won’t Stay Dead
- Boys and Their Toys
- The Private Integers Private Eyes You Can Count On…
HAVE WE GOT AN EYE FOR YOU!
- The Thrilling Detective April 1998 P.I. Poll Results
- Robert Randisi’s 1997 PI Survey Results
- The Top 100 Hard-Boiled Characters of the Twentieth Century Compiled by the Members of Rara-Avis (2002)
- Drinking Buddies Eyes I’d Most Like to Have a Beer With
- The Hard-boiledness Scale Ten Hard-boiled Dicks, Rated
- Something Funny About The Eyes The Funniest Eyes
- Winking Eyes The Parodies
- The Big Stuff Corpulent Eyes
- Sweating The Small Stuff The Shortest Eyes
- Tall Eyes
- Young Eyes
- Hand Me Down My Walking Cane Old Dicks
- Talkin’ ’bout De-Generation Dicks That Were Allowed to Get Old
- Hardboiled Eyes
- Softboiled Eyes
- Overboiled Eyes
- These Eyes Keep Themselves in Trouble Bad, Bad Eyes
- The Defective Detectives Handicapped Heroes
- Beautiful Dreamers Looney Tunes & Other Reality-Challenged Eyes
- Turn It Up To Eleven Gonzo Eyes
- No Business For a Lady Female Eyes (P.I. Poll Results)
- The Lady Detectives Pre-1900 Lady Eyes
- Dangerous Dames A Timeline of Some of the Major Female Eyes
- Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves Some Great Female Eyes
- Some Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Bimbo Eyes & Other Embarrassments
- The Best Female Sleuths from Pop Culture According to criminalelement.com
- Lovers in a Dangerous Time P.I. Romance Novels
- God Is My Partner Christian Eyes
- Even a Shamus Could Be a Shamus Some Nice Jewish Eyes
ChicanoMexican-AmericanHispanic Latino Latinix Eyes- Mormon Eyes
- Can You Dig It? The Original Black Eyes
- Can You Dig The New Breed? The New Black Eyes
- What Were Once Vices…Some notable Gay and Lesbian eyes
- Under Electric Candlelight Transgender Eyes
- Rod Shaw’s How To Tell If You’re a Redneck P.I.
- Native American Eyes & Faithful Indian Companions
- Mick Dicks
- Baby, Baby, Baby, You’re Outta Time Retro (Historical) Eyes
- Most Violent Eyes
- Well-armed Eyes
- One-armed Eyes
- Got Game? Ex-Jock Eyes
- My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys Cowboy Eyes
- Back on the Chain Gang Eyes Who’ve Served Time
- Deck the Mean Streets with Boughs of Holly Christmas Eyes
- Do You Hear What I Hear? Christmas Eyes on Old Time Radio
LIFESTYLES OF THE NEITHER TARNISHED NOR AFRAID
- Lone Wolves
- Goin’ Steady Long Time Couples
- Married to It! Hitched! Married Eyes and Their Spouses
- Ditched! D-I-V-O-R-C-E
- If I Were a Rich Man Millionaire Eyes
- By No Means Low-rent Eyes
- King of the Road No Fixed Address
- Travis McGee’s Little Black Book
- The Children of Travis McGee The Literary Descendants of Our Man Trav…
- X-Rated Dirty Eyes & Other Not-So-Private Dicks
- Sexless Eyes
- Obsessed Eyes Get a Life!
- Wherever I Lay My Hat… Private Eye Watering Holes and Hangouts
- On the Trail of The Black Bird… The Whereabouts of the “Real” Maltese Falcon
- Get Yer Motor Runnin’… Hot Wheels of Some Hot Eyes
- Two Wheels Good
- Gentlemen, Name Your Poison (I) Drinkers, Stinkers and Occasional Tipplers
- Gentlemen, Name Your Poison (II) Dabblers, Inhalers and Other Substance-Abusing Eyes
- Gentlemen, Name Your Poison Drinks Made Famous in Detective Flicks & TV Shows Hollywood
- The Beers of Spenser
- Private Eyes and Their Hobbies Now don’t tell me there’s nothing to do…
- A Guy’s Gotta Eat Gourmet Eyes
- Off To the Races Horsey Eyes
- Field and Stream Hunting and Fishing Eyes
- Chess-Playing Eyes
- The Truth About Cats and Dogs Pet-Owning Eyes
- Flip, Flop and Fly More Pet-Owning Eyes
- Going to the Dogs The Great Mutts of Detective Fiction
- “Oh mama, I got dem cosmic anthropomorphic P.I. blues again…” Going to the dogs, the cats and worse.
- Surf City, Here We Come Catch the wave of surfing eyes…
IT’S A FAMILY AFFAIR
- Mom P.I.s & Other Family Values Gumshoes, with Children (Maternal Division)
- Dad P.I.s & Other Family Values Gumshoes, with Children (Paternal Division)
- It’s a Family Affair… Family-Owned Detective Agencies
- Father’s Day Private Eyes and Their Dads
- Mother’s Day Private Eyes and Their Moms
- Brothers in Arms Fraternal Dicks
- Snoop Sisters Sororal Sleuths
- Four Eyes Twin Private Detectives
THE WORKING LIFE
- An Eye by Any Other Name Would Still Smell As Sweet Official & Not-So-Official Occupations of Some Popular Eyes
- Amateur Hour Official Occupations of Some Popular Accidental Eyes
- You Better Get Some Insurance, Baby You’re in Good Hands With These Insurance Dicks
- Bounty Hunters “Not your average nine-to-five job”
- Stop the Presses! Newsroom Eyes
- Death Flags a Cab Taxi-Driving Eyes
- Lawyer Eyes
- KIDNAPPED! A List of K&R Specialists
- Murder, My Suite House Dicks
- Pole Positions Stripper Detectives
- They Get Around Globetrotting Eyes
- Moonlighting Eyes
- Skip Tracers & Repo Men
- On the Con Scam Artists: A Suggested Reading List
- Bodyguards
- Sometimes You Kill Me Hitmen & Assassins
- Cyber Eyes Hacking Gumshoes
- Apples of the Eye It’s a Mac, Mac, Mac World
- Missing Persons
- How Can Youy Do It Alone? A dozen or so detective agencies to keep in mind.
- Some Great Detective Agencies, A-ZÂ Alphabetically Yours…
- It’s a Family Affair… Family-Owned Detective Agencies
- Lone Wolves
- All Hawk’s Children Kick-Ass Sidekicks
- Great Gals Stand-up dames and the eyes lucky enough to have them
- You’re a Good Man, Sister Stand-up Secretaries & the eyes lucky enough to have them
- Great Offices
- Odd Couples; or Two Eyes are Better Than One Great Partnerships
- Company Men
- Well-Armed Dicks
- Un-Armed Eyes
- Dirty Eyes
- Dirty Blue Crooked Cops and Other Great Villians
- Claire DeWitt’s Other Cases
CURIOUSER & CURIOUSER
- Baby, Baby, Baby, You’re Outta Time Retro (Historical) Eyes
- Down Those Mean Skies SciFi P.I.’s
- I Ain’t Afraid Of No Ghosts Fantasy and Occult Eyes
- … and Throw Away the Key! Locked Room and Impossible Crime P.I. Mysteries
- Hello, I Must Be Going… Great Moments of Unconsciousness
- The P.I. World Tour Wining, Dining and Sight-Seeing: Suggested Stops
- We’re Living In a Political World Eyes Left
- We’re Living In a Political World Eyes Right
- We’re Livin’ In a Political World : The Bookshelf Books About (American) Politics and Detective Fiction
- Eyes’ the Bye P.I.s Who Live Afloat
- 9/11 P.I. Stories & Novels That Deal With the Events of September 11, 2001
- Death Is Not the End Private Eyes Who Won’t Stay Dead Even If Their Creators Are
- Last Night I Shot a P.I. in My Pajamas… Groucho Marx, P.I.?
TRIVIER & TRIVIER
- The Big List
- Great P.I. Names
- One Name or Less
- Tips of the Fedora
- Thumbs of the Nose
- Great Cameos Hey! Isn’t that…?
- Everyone Into The Pool Books By Multiple Author & Other Private Eye Team-Ups
THE WORK
- Wandering Daughter Jobs & Other Great Missing Persons Cases
- Ah! So That Explains It P.I.s Solve Famous Mysteries
- And It’s One-Two-Three Strikes You’re Out Baseball P.I. Mysteries
CALLING OUT AROUND THE WORLD (THE P.I. DIRECTORY)
“Every city gets the detective it deserves.”
— Paco Taibo II
- The P.I. World Tour Wining, Dining and Sight-Seeing: S\uggested Stops
- The Akashic Noir Series It’s a Noir World, After All
ASIA
- The Eyes of Southeast Asia
- Indian Eyes Sub-continental ops
- Chinese Eyes
- Big in Japan Japanese Eyes
- Nyey, Nyet, Soviet Russian Eyes
EUROPE
- European Eyes
- Zut! Les Flics Privés French Eyes
- Spanish Eyes, Blue and Otherwise
- Nordic Eyes Swedish Dicks and Other Nordic Gumshoes
- Europe The American Plan
U.K.
- The Sun Never Sets on The British Eye Commonwealth Eyes
- Irish Eyes, Smiling and Otherwise P.I.’s of the Emerald Isle
- There’ll Always Be an England British Eyes
- The Mean Streets of London
- Scotland the Brave Scottish Ayes
- Welsh Eyes
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NORTH AMERICA
CANADA
“You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn’t you? Look harder. It’s where someone got axed in the snow.”
— Margaret Atwood
- Vancouver and Beautiful British Columbia Eyes of the West Coast
- Montréal Eyes Murder in a Distinct Society
- Ontari-ari-ari-o Eyes Eyes from Canada’s Second Largest Province
- The Maple Leaf Rag Other Canadian Eyes
MEANWHILE, BACK IN THE STATES…
By City
- Ah Boston, You’re My Home Beantown Eyes
- Their Kind of Town Chicago Eyes
- Cleveland Rocks!
- Don’t Forget the Motor City Detroit
- Kansas City, Here I Come
- The City of Angels Los Angeles
- Hollywood Detectives
- Santa Barbara (Santa Theresa)
- They Left Their Hearts… San Francisco Eyes
- Memphis in the Meantime
- O’Neil’s Big Easy Favourites And Other Louisiana Eyes
- Capitol Crimes Washington, D.C.
- Charm City, I’m Sure Baltimore Eyes
- All in All, They’d Rather Be in Philadelphia
- That’s the Way the Missouri Breaks…
- Viva Las Vegas! Sin City sleuths
By State
- Alaska
- Arizona
- California
The City of Angels Los Angeles
Hollywood Dicks
Santa Barbara (Santa Theresa)
San Diego Eyes: America’s Finest City’s Finest Eyes
Wish They All Could Be California Girls
They Left Their Hearts in San Francisco - Rocky Mountain Eyes Colorado, Montana, Wyoming & Idaho
- Florida Freshly-Squeezed Eyes
- Georgia on My Mind
- Let’s Go to Hawaii
- Illinois Eye, As in Illinois
- Indianapolis
- Kentucky
- O’Neil’s Big Easy Favourites & Other Louisiana Eyes
- Hard-Boiled Maryland
- Gopher State Gumshoes Minnesota Eyes
- Yankees, Maine Men and Other New England Eyes
- New Jersey
- New York Empire State Eyes
Start Spreading the News Big Apple Eyes - Ohio Players How Many More?
- Oregon
- Pacific Northwest An Old Raincoat Won’t Ever Let You Down
- Pennsylvania Six-Five Thousand!
- Rhode Island
- Whistlin’ Dixie Southern-Fried Eyes, including Alabame, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi and Tennessee
- Texas The Eyes of Texas are Upon You
- Utah Eyes And All That Jazz
- Virginia Eyes Talk To Me Like You Do…
- Vermont Green Mountain Eyes
- Washington
- Wisconsin
AND OTHER PLACES
- Down in Mexico Mexican Eyes
- Really South of the Border South American & Latin American Eyes
- The Caribbean
- Africa
- Polynesia
- Australia, New Zealand & Tasmania They Come from Lands Down Under
EYES ON THE PRIZE: AWARDS & ORGANIZATIONS
- Mystery Awards You may already be a winner…
- The Private Eye Writers of America & The Shamus Awards
- The Eye Winners of The PWA Lifetime Achievement Award
- The Hammer Winners of The PWA Hammer Award
- The St. Martin’s Press/Private Eye Writers of America Best First Mystery Novel Contest
- The Mystery Writers of America and The Edgar Awards
- The International Association of Crime Writers and The Dashiell Hammett Awards
- The American Crime Writers League
- Mystery Readers International and The Macavity Awards
- Bouchercon Anthony Award Winners in the Private Eye Genre
- The Crime Writers of Canada and The Arthur Ellis Awards
- The Crime Writers Association of Australia and The Ned Kelly Awards
- The Crime Writers Association (CWA) Awards
- The Short Mystery Fiction Society and The Derringer Awards
- The Barry Awards
- Deutsche Krimi Preis
- The On-Line Mystery Awards
- Emmy Winners
- Oscar P.I.
POLL RESULTS
- April 1998 | The Best P.I. of the 90’s
- May 1998 | The Best and Worst of the TV Eyes
- June 1998 | No Business For a Lady: Female Eyes
- Summer 1998 | The Cheese Stands Alone-Alternative P.I. Classics
- Fall 1998: See Ya in the Funny Papers!!! | Comic Book Eyes
- Stand Alone P.I. Novels (November 1998)
- The 1998 Cheap Thrill Awards | The Year in Review
- Spring Break 1999 | The Face the Face Challenge
- March-April 1999 | True Confessions
- May-June 1999 | Down Those Mean Skies…Sci-Fi P.I.’s
- Summer 1999 | Murder on the Airwaves: Radio Eyes–Then and Now
- Fall 1999 | Dashiell Hammett–What Do You Think?
- The 1999 Cheap Thrill Awards | The Year in Review
- Spring 2000 | Short Stories: Private Eye Action As You Like It!
- Summer/Fall 2000 | Go Ahead and Talk: Our First Ever Reader’s Survey
- The 2000 Cheap Thrill Awards | The Year in Review
- Spring 2001 | Odds & Sods: The P.I. Poll Grab Bag
- Summer 2001 | Let’s Go To the Movies!
- Autumn 2001 | Calling Out Around the World
- The 2001 Cheap Thrill Awards | The Year in Review
- The 2002 Cheap Thrill Awards | The Year in Review
- C’mon Guys, It’s Not THAT Hard! | The 2003 P.I. Trivia Contest
- The 2003 Cheap Thrill Awards | The Year in Review
- Spring 2004 | Eyes Right: The Thrilling Detective/CrimeSeen Movie/TV Poll
- The 2004 Cheap Thrill Awards | The Year in Review
- Take It and Like It! | The Hammett P.I. Poll
- The 2005 Cheap Thrill Awards | The Year in Review
- The 2006 Cheap Thrill Awards | The Year in Review
- The 2007 Cheap Thrill Awards | The Year in Review
- The Tenth Anniversary | Our Birthday Card
- The Chosen Thirteen | Our Readers’ Favourites (2011)
- The 14 Best Private Eye Novels of All Time (2012)
- The 2019 Cheap Thrill Awards (2019)