Created by Michelle King and Robert King "I don't think anyone's expecting me." -- Elspeth introduces herself to the NYPD in the first episode. Understatement of the year? A spin-off of sorts from The Good Wife (and its sequel, The Good Fight) finds weirdo (but successful) defense lawyer ELSBETH TASCIONI (played with Emmy-winning WTF? charm … Continue reading Elsbeth Tascioni (Elspeth)
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Sam McCain (aka “Cody McCain”)
Created by Ed Gorman Pseudonyms include Richard Driscoll, Chris Shea McCarrick, Daniel Ransom, E.J. Gorman, Edward Gorman Jr. & Robert David Chase (1941-2016) In the late fifties, rookie attorney SAM McCAIN finds himself in Black River Falls, Iowa, the "least successful lawyer" in a "a town that already had too many lawyers." So he agrees--reluctantly, … Continue reading Sam McCain (aka “Cody McCain”)
Hanns Gross & Karl Werthen
Created by J. Sydney Jones Real-life criminalogist HANNS GROSS and fictional attorney/private investigator KARL WERTHEN are the heroes of a series of intricately plotted historical mysteries by author J. Sydney Jones set in turn-of-the-century Vienna. Often referred to as "the father of criminology," Doktor Hanns Gustav Adolf Gross (1847-1915) was an Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate who … Continue reading Hanns Gross & Karl Werthen
George Seville, John Jericho, Arthur Hallam & Wu (The Park Avenue Hunt Club)
Created by Judson P. Philips Pseudonyms include Hugh Pentecost, Philip Owen (1903 – 1989) THE PARK AVENUE HUNT CLUB were a team of disparate millionaire adventurers, vigilantes, and amateur crime solvers; men of leisure with a weakness for black masks and bloody violence, whose thirty-seven action-packed stories and serials were published in Detective Fiction Weekly, Flynn’s Detective … Continue reading George Seville, John Jericho, Arthur Hallam & Wu (The Park Avenue Hunt Club)
Bernardo Thomas
Created by Louis Williams Supposedly one of the great one-shot private eyes, the only appearance of BERNARDO THOMAS was in Tropical Murder, a paperback original published by Tower Books in 1981, shortly before they went belly-up. But hoo-boy, does it sound tempting. I'm not even sure anymore who first raved to me about this, although I … Continue reading Bernardo Thomas