Created by Morgan Shy Pseudonym of Gordon Brown Flag down some Tartan Noir, lads! Thirty years a Glasgow constable, BLAKE GLOVER has retired and returned to his hometown of Fraserburgh on the north-east coast of Scotland with his tail between his legs — dour, disgraced and not at all sure where his life is heading, … Continue reading Blake Glover
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Mike “Mickey” Hanigan & Irving Kowalski
Created by Roger Torrey Pseudonyms include Sam Drake, Samuel Drake, John Ryan, R.D. Torrey (1901-46) Prolific pulpster Roger D. Torrey cranked out almost 300 stories for the crime and detective pulps, most of them featuring relatively generic private eyes: big, tough-talking gumshoes, and MIKE "MICKEY" HANIGAN was one of them, quick to dish out either … Continue reading Mike “Mickey” Hanigan & Irving Kowalski
Cooper MacLeish
Created by Sam Reaves Pseudonyms include Dominic Martell "It was a long way to fall, a very long fall through the cold night air, and she fell the whole way without making a sound. At the end there was a sound, a sudden sick sound, but after a minute of stillness no one had come … Continue reading Cooper MacLeish
Smooth Kyle
Created by Borden Chase Pseudonym of Frank G. Fowler? (1900-1971) PETER “SMOOTH” KYLE was not a private eye, but he was definitely a cabbie — first an actual one, working Hell's Kitchen, and then posing as one after signing up with the U.S. Treasury Departments. As a G-Man, he prowled by mean streets of New York … Continue reading Smooth Kyle
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
Mike Olshansky (Hack)
Created by David Koepp "Could we just leave my soul out of this... for once?" -- Mike warns Grizz in "Domestic Disturbance" Get the angst-meter a-running... In Hack, possibly the most downbeat new drama of the Fall 2002 TV season, David Morse starred as MIKE OLSHANSKY, a disgraced ex-cop from Philadelphia ("I took a bullet … Continue reading Mike Olshansky (Hack)
Red Diamond
Created by Mark Schorr Imagine if Robert Leslie Bellem had written Don Quixote... Once upon a time, there was a forty-something cab driver from Hicksville, Long Island by the name of SIMON JAFFEE. Now, Simon, well, his life wasn't going so well. He had a nagging wife that didn't understand him, a genius son that … Continue reading Red Diamond
Walker Devereaux (Midnight Cab)
Created by James W. Nichol One of the most popular series, airing as part of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's The Mystery Project, was Midnight Cab, which was aired in three runs of 13 episodes, 9 episodes, and 13 episodes respectively (making a total of 35 episodes for the series). The first series ran in 1992-93, … Continue reading Walker Devereaux (Midnight Cab)
Death Flags a Cab
Taxi-Driving Eyes (and Limos Too!) Amateur sleuths are amateur sleuths, be they poodle groomers, pastry chefs or feisty spinsters, but some occupations seem to favour trouble-magnet sleuths who somehow can't keep out of trouble. Not all of the following are actually private detectives, but they all act like they are. Steve Midnight by John K. … Continue reading Death Flags a Cab