Created by Charles Felton Pidgin (1844-1923) Despite over a century of misinformation and conflation, there were actually two detectives named QUINCY ADAMS SAWYER, father and son, both created by Charles Felton Pidgin, although only one was really a private investigator. The first Quincy was more of an amateur lawyer sleuth. He began his career as … Continue reading Quincy Adams Sawyer & Quincy Adams Sawyer (Junior)
Tag: All the World’s a Stage
All the World’s A Stage
Plays, Operas, Musicals & Other Theatrical Diversions Some of these are played straight. Some of them are played for fun. And few too many of them simply used the clothes of the P.I. genre to dress up something else entirely--and not always successfully. Okay, this is, obviously all pretty new to me. If you … Continue reading All the World’s A Stage
Velda Bellinghausen
Created by Ron Miller From the The New York Graphic, February 2, 1951: CHORUS GIRL TURNS SHAMUS "To the disappointment of her many admirers, Miss Velda Bellinghausen, one of the better-known of the leggy chorines of Slotnik's Famous Follies, has turned in her g-string. What does the retiring ecdysiast plan to do with her time? … Continue reading Velda Bellinghausen
The Continental Op
Created by Dashiell Hammett (aka "Peter Collinson) (1894-1961) "I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte." -- the beginning of Red Harvest He may be often mistakenly billed as "the first private eye", (that honour goes to John Daly Carroll's Three Gun Terry) but, … Continue reading The Continental Op