My ScrapbookCarroll John Daly's Obituary CARROLL JOHN DALY was one of the most pivotal figures in the development of hard-boiled crime fiction and pretty much created the "private eye" as we now understand the term, but even now, all these years later, he still can’t get no respect. But he apparently never got much even … Continue reading My Scrapbook: Carroll John Daly’s Obituary
Tag: Black Mask
Shean Connell
Created by Roger Torrey Pseudonyms include Sam Drake, Samuel Drake, John Ryan, R.D. Torrey (1901-46) First published in 1938 (and reprinted by Dennis McMillan in 1988, and numerous times since), 42 Days For Murderwas the only novel by Black Mask regular Roger Torrey. It featured SHEAN CONNELL, who fits the classic mold of the hard-drinking, … Continue reading Shean Connell
Pat McCarthy & Margie Chalmers
Created by Roger Torrey Pseudonyms: Sam Drake, Samuel Drake, John Ryan, R.D. Torrey (1901-46) Hot-headed, irritable and hard to get along with, PAT McCARTHY, he of the "long, sad Irish face" and the thick black beard, is a private detective who's bounced around from detective agency to detective agency (Chicago! St. Louis!). He's settled down, … Continue reading Pat McCarthy & Margie Chalmers
George Killeen
Created by Roger Torrey Pseudonyms include Sam Drake, Samuel Drake, John Ryan, R.D. Torrey (1901-46) Los Angeles private eye GEORGE KILLEEN was yet another hard-boiled gumshoe created by pulpmeister Roger Torrey. Surprise, surprise.. he's Irish! According to Jess Nevins, he "gets along well with Lieutenant McFee of the Homicide Squad" whom Killeen admits is “one … Continue reading George Killeen
Black
Created by Paul Cain Pseudonym of George Caryl Sims Other pseudonyms include Peter Ruric (1902-66) Tough, hard and cold, private dick BLACK popped up in Black Mask in the thirties. New York City-based, he was caught up in some shady shenanigans a few years earlier, but he's doing quite well now, "keeping people out. of … Continue reading Black
Kip Muldane
Created by Steve Fisher Pseudonyms include Stephen Gould, Grant Lane (1912-80) Although he wrote a ton of crime and detective stories for the pulps, Steve Fisher actually wrote relatively few private eye characters. One of them, though, was KIP MULDANE, a Hawaiian gumshoe who appeared in at least nine stories in Detective Fiction Weekly and … Continue reading Kip Muldane
Tony Key
Created by Steve Fisher Pseudonyms include Stephen Gould, Grant Lane (1912-80) Former Federal Agent turned hard-boiled Hollywood dick TONY KEY, he of the white shoes, white sweater and jet black hair, appeared in a dozen or so stories in Detective Fiction Weekly, and Black Mask, written by screenwriter and pulpster Steve Fisher. Tony calls himself … Continue reading Tony Key
John K. Butler
(1908-64) Author JOHN K. BUTLER is best-known, at least in our little neck of the woods, for the numerous stories he pounded out for such pulps as Black Mask, Detective Fiction Weekly, Double Detective and especially Dime Detective. A native Californian, Butler was born in Auburn, up near San Francisco. In the latetwenties he migrated to … Continue reading John K. Butler
From Spenser to Yeats: Jane Yeats, That Is
Feminism's Version of the Hard-boiled Sleuth is on the Wagon and Rides a Harley An Essay by Jill Edmondson Start with one serving of fingertips severed during a rather unfortunate version of Miller time. Blend in a blinding hangover buttressed by a British beer. Add the roar of a Harley drowning out the raspy hacking … Continue reading From Spenser to Yeats: Jane Yeats, That Is
Ben Corbett
Created by Julius W. Long (1907-1955) "The D.A.'s bundler carrier, that's me. I crack the cases, and Keever gets the headlines." -- "Blind Bogey" Prolific pulpster Long--he seemed to be everywhere in the forties, with his name frequently splashed on pulp covers-- had two ongoing series. He wrote about Clarence Darrow "Corpus Delecti" Mort, a … Continue reading Ben Corbett