Created by J.N. Charag Pseudonym of Nathaniel Wolloch In the 2023 novel Galilee, MARK ASH, a former FBI agent turned private eye, makes his way to Israel, summoned by local Jewish attorney Tova Hirschfeld, who's notorious for defending Arabs. This time, she's representing the family of Hanin Fareed, an eighteen-year-old Arab woman, her throat slit … Continue reading Mark Ash
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).
Larry Palmer
Created by Rene Denfeld Although retired cop and widower LARRY PALMER isn't a private eye per se, and he isn't even the main character, he makes for a dandy potential series character in Rene Denfeld's 2024 novel Sleeping Giants. Still mourning the death of his wife Marjorie and looking for something/anything to keep himself keeping … Continue reading Larry Palmer
Their Kind of Town
Chicago Eyes Nick Acropolis by Jack Clark Casper Barnett by John Weagly Mark Brandon by Vernon Warren Barr Breed by Bill S. Ballinger Barney Burgess by Ellery Queen Bill Crane by Jonathan Latimer Ray Dudgeon by Sean Chercover Rusty Forbes by Milton K. Ozaki Carl Good by Robert O. Saber Carl Guard by Milton Ozaki … Continue reading Their Kind of Town
Eddie Miles
Created by Jack Clark Oh, what a difference a blurb makes... Originally, author Jack Clark, already a Shamus finalist for his first novel, was flogging his self-published novel Nobody's Angel for five bucks apiece to passengers in his Chicago cab. Hard Case Crime took note, and published the book for real in 2010, with … Continue reading Eddie Miles
Gina Cototi
Created by Lawrence Kelter GINA MARIE COTOTI is, according to the author (or at least his publisher) a "feisty Sicilian sparkplug, a Brooklyn-based private eye with a fondness for family, friends, and one roguishly handsome Casanova named Rocco Benelli. Hey, nobody's perfect." If it already sounds like we're edging into Evanovich territory, you're not hearing … Continue reading Gina Cototi
Steve Bullitt (The Case of the Winking Buddha)
Created by Manning Lee Stokes Pseudonyms include Nick Carter, Paul Edwards, Jeffrey Lord, Bernice Ludwell, March Marlowe, Ken Stanton, Kermit Welles, Kirk Westley, Ford Worth, Helen Sayles (1911-76) and Charles Raab (1908-66) For comic book nerds, it's a given that It Rhymes With Lust , published in 1950, was the first American graphic novel. A … Continue reading Steve Bullitt (The Case of the Winking Buddha)
Adam Zantz
Created by Daniel Weizmann "Now isn't it a pity, isn't it a shame, No one ever warned the boy, Rock n' roll is a vicious game..." -- April Wine This Zantz can dance--or at least one would hope so, given his love of rock'n'roll. In the "Pacific Coast Highway Mysteries" (that's how the series is … Continue reading Adam Zantz
Thibault
Created by Gigi Vernon Chandler may have been wrong. Maybe it is a game for knights. Or at least former knights. It's the 12th Century, and the French city of Troyes in the county of Champagne is a major trade center, a crossroads of commerce and culture, ruled by Henri the Generous, the Count of … Continue reading Thibault
Dylan Dog
Created by Tiziano Sclavi From Italy comes this comic book featuring a rather bizarrely-named London-based private eye, DYLAN DOG, put out by. comic publisher Sergio Bonelli Editore since 1986. And it isn't just his name that's rather peculiar. Nope, not for the former Scotland Yard detective the humdrum banal world of marital affairs and divorce … Continue reading Dylan Dog
Samuel Craddock
Created by Terry Shames The former police chief of the small town of Jarrett Creek, Texas, SAMUEL CRADDOCK, finds out retirement isn't going to be quite as peaceful as he'd hoped. Seems his replacement is a hopeless drunk who couldn't "investigate his way out of an outhouse with two doors," according to a local attorney. … Continue reading Samuel Craddock