Created by Roger Marshall & Anthony Marriott This ain't no Garner, this ain't no disco, this ain't no foolin' around... Forget drop-dead cool, two-fisted, square-jawed American TV eyes with their shiny muscle cars and bikinied neighbors. Private enquiry agent FRANK MARKER was the real deal, about as hip as a day-old cup of tea. He … Continue reading Frank Marker (Public Eye)
Author: kevinburtonsmith
Lost Montrealer Kevin Burton Smith has been involved in publishing in one form or another ever since he was four and asked his mother to staple together some of his drawings. Since then he’s worked as a paperboy, an editor, a columnist, an illustrator, an editor, a graphic designer, a critic, a cartoonist, a bookseller, a layout artist and a short story writer. He’s the founder and editor of The Thrilling Detective Web Site, the popular and long-running online encyclopedia of all things private eye, the web monkey for The Private Eye Writers of America and a contributing editor to Mystery Scene Magazine and Deadly Pleasures. He is currently living in California and working on a non-fiction book about married detective couples with his wife, mystery author D.L. Browne (aka Diana Killian, Josh Lanyon).
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Ray Banana
Created by Ted Benoit Pseudonym of Thierry Benoît (1949-2016) En fin! A P.I. with appeal! RAY BANANA is a post-modernist American private eye, as imagined by the French in the eighties in a series of quirky, offbeat bandes dessinées. He's a slouching hepcat shamus in retro-fifties gear, shades and attitude, who stars in a series … Continue reading Ray Banana
Frances Neagley
Created by Lee Child Developed for Television by Nick Santora & Nicholas Wootton The Jack Reacher Industrial Complex continues to spread, with this spinoff of Amazon Prime's Reacher TV show. It follows former military cop turned tough-as-nails Chicago private eye FRANCES NEAGLY (played by Maria Sten), as she works cases in "The World of Reacher." A … Continue reading Frances Neagley
Welsh Eyes
I feel sheepish, but this is all I could find... Leo Beckett by Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran (Cardiff) Louie Knight by Malcolm Pryce (Aberystwyth) Robin Llywelyn by Robert Lewis (Swansea) The WISE Enquiries Agency Investigators by Cathy Ace Preliminary list compiled by Kevin Burton Smith.
The WISE Enquiries Agency
Created by Cathy Ace (1960--) It's a cute premise, anyway... Based in Wales, THE WISE ENQUIRIES AGENCY rounds up four "softly poached" female investigators, one each from Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England — hence the name of the agency. Sixty-something MAVIS MacDONALD, the oldest of the bunch, is from Scotland, a former army nurse with … Continue reading The WISE Enquiries Agency
Frank McClusky (Frank McClusky, C.I.)
Created by Dave Sheridan & Mark Perez "Until you've witnessed your husband explode in front of 5,000 people you don't know shit!" — Ma McClusky gets sentimental .There's dumb. And dumber. And dumberer. Frank McKlusky, C.I., a painful-to-watch, straight-to-video flick from 2002, has to be the dumberest. It's a painful straight-to-video flick from 2002, that … Continue reading Frank McClusky (Frank McClusky, C.I.)
Leo Beckett (Dirty Work)
Created by Laurence Marks, Maurice Gran & Sam Lawrence In the limited BBC One series Dirty Work (2000), slick, smiling LEO BECKETT is a former cop who made his money from gambling (he cheats) and occasional private eye work in Cardiff, Wales, scamming his way through life. The "dirty work" in question consists of the … Continue reading Leo Beckett (Dirty Work)
Star Hawkins
Created by John Broome & and Mike Sekowsky All you wannabe Chandlers might as well give up. STAR HAWKINS IS the "greatest detective of the 21st century," first appearing as a back-up feature in Strange Adventures #114, DC's science fiction comic of the early sixties. Set in the future, his adventures seem to take place … Continue reading Star Hawkins
My Favourite Short Story Series Eyes
A Short List of "New" Series When I first began working my way into the Shamus Game sometime in the late seventies/early eighties (Okay, boomer?), I read everything I could get my hands on. I prowled newsstands, spinner racks, libraries, garage sales and used bookstores, living on old and new paperback novels ("the kind the … Continue reading My Favourite Short Story Series Eyes