Created by Lawrence Sanders (1920-98) "Listen, I just don't like people who think they own the world." — Timothy Cone, in Timothy's Game TIMOTHY CONE's a big, tall, scrawny kinda guy, eccentric and obsessive as all get out; a loner with stooped shoulders, a shambling gait, and big ears, prowling the boardrooms and the bedrooms … Continue reading Timothy Cone
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Loopy Jones
Created by William Dale Pseudonym of Norman A. Daniels Other pseudonyms Dorothy Daniels, Harrison Judd, Mark Reed, Norman T. Vane & David Wade, Daniella Dorsett, Angela Gray, Cynthia Kavanaugh, Suzanne Somers, Geraldine Thayer & Helen Gray Weston Also used the house pseudonyms James Clayford, G. Wayman Jones & Robert Wallace (1905-95) "Hold tight, Loopy!" she … Continue reading Loopy Jones
Colm Steiner
Created by Nicholas Wagner "When night fell, they burned a campfire and ate a kangaroo." A hard-drinking, hard-loving, hard-edged hard man for hire, COLM STEINER works for the London-based Enquiry Service in the years following World War I, doing whatever needs to be done: find a missing person, qualm a gang war, track down a … Continue reading Colm Steiner
Slim Jim Bannerman
Created by Jay Flynn Pseudonym of John Martin Flynn Other pseudonyms include J.M. Flynn (1928-85) SLIM JIM BANNERMAN is a Denver-based operative for the Gallows Detective Agency in San Francisco, supposedly founded by a former Pinkerton agent named Vernon Gallowes back in 1916. The two novels in this series, written for sleaze merchants Belmot-Tower under … Continue reading Slim Jim Bannerman
Jefferson Birch
Created by W.W. Lee Laconic former Texas Ranger JEFFERSON BIRCH is a sort of Old West private eye who works sometimes for Tisdale Investigations. He's got a dark past that troubles him some, and a pal, Swede, who lends a hand now and then, in this 1990s series of hardcover westerns (later reprinted in large … Continue reading Jefferson Birch
Jonathan Marks
Created by Glenn M. Barns (1915-97) Washington State attorney Glenn M. Barns wrote three medium-boiled and now largely forgotten novels about private detective JONATHAN "JONNY" MARKS, an operative for a large detective agency. I don't know much about the series, except that there first book, Murder is a Gamble (1952), was published by the lowly … Continue reading Jonathan Marks
Scott Elliott
Created by Terence Faherty (1954 --) Another of the growing breed of retro eyes (see Toby Peters, Jack Levine, Brian Kane, Nate Heller, etc.), the adventures of Tinseltown gumshoes SCOTT ELLIOTT take him from Hollywood's so-called "Golden Age" of the 1940s right up to the late sixties. A former bit-player (a nice word for failed actor) … Continue reading Scott Elliott
Wilson (Hall)
Created by David C. Hall (1943–) “There was nothing to think about, it was just a matter of keeping on, and there was nowhere to go but straight. Eventually she would get tired. Everybody gets tired, everybody makes mistakes. Which was why, Wilson thought, you didn’t have to be very smart to do his job." … Continue reading Wilson (Hall)
Tony Hunter
Created by Robert George Dean Pseudonyms include George Griswold (1904 - 1989) Ace operative for the New York-based Schmidt Detective Agency, ANTHONY "TONY” HUNTER was a suitably hard-boiled, suitably hard-drinking and suitably flirtatious private eye with a suitably attractive receptionist and secretary, Irma, who appeared in ten novels in the thirties through the fifties. He … Continue reading Tony Hunter
Trixie Meehan & Mike Harris
Created by T.T. Flynn Pseudonym of Thomas Theodore Flynn (1902-78) "Pert and sweet, soft and cuddly, harmless as a kitten and luscious-looking to all big strong men—that's Trixie if you don't know her." Nuts about each other, or just nuts? One of those hard-boiled dames from the pulps, cute, gun-toting TRIXIE MEEHAN was, along with her … Continue reading Trixie Meehan & Mike Harris