Created by Tricia Allen Author Tricia Allen assured me her series character, DAVID WEATHER, was going to become a private eye eventually—he's was just taking a while to get there. His debut, Texas Weather (2000), finds him a prosecutor for the DA's office in post-Second World War Dallas, Texas, a town still trying to balance … Continue reading David Weather
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Atticus Cameron, Nathan Locke, Calvin Cruz & Jade Jax (Dynamis Security)
Created by Liliana Hart Billed as the "Dynamis Security" books, the series spotlights the adventures of various operatives of the Dallas-based company, which offers international private security to various governments around the world. The firm was founded by the enigmatic, recently widowed veteran ATTICUS CAMERON, he of the "hair black as pitch" and "eyes like … Continue reading Atticus Cameron, Nathan Locke, Calvin Cruz & Jade Jax (Dynamis Security)
Maya Laster
Created by Noreen Cedeño Here's an eye of a different color. Noreen Cedeño's raspy-voiced MAYA LASTER does plenty of the regular private investigator things, albeit reluctantly, because--although she has the required license and all that--what she really is is a genetic genealogy investigator, running a one-woman agency in Dallas with the catchy title of Laster … Continue reading Maya Laster
Rick Buchanan
Created by Jim Beaver Ex-Marine RICK BUCHANAN is a Dallas eye who supplements his "near-bust" income (and has a lot of fun) with a side gig doing gunfight shows at Six-Gun City, an Old West theme park out on the highway between Tulsa and Oklahoma City. He claims it's "more fun than fishing." Rick made … Continue reading Rick Buchanan
Ed Earl Burch
Created by Jim Nesbitt For those of you not getting enough shitkicking in your literary diet... Dallas private eye ED EARL BURCH has a bad disposition, a string of bad marriages, a pair of bad knees and a liver that just ain't worth shit, but he's also one tough, smart SOB. He doesn't take any … Continue reading Ed Earl Burch
Poppy Dillworth
Created by Dorothy Tell Dorothy Tell wrote about POPPY DILLWORTH, a cranky 65-year-old retiree from the Dallas Police Department who decides to become a private detective instead of committing suicide. Go figure. She made her debut in the author’s first book, a romance, Wilderness Trek (1990), which was ostensibly a story of six women on a camping … Continue reading Poppy Dillworth
Deuce Ramsey
Created by Jamie Mandelkau There wasn't much love for the off-beat The Leo Wyoming Caper when it was released in 1977, and it hasn't much improved with age. Dallas, Texas gumshoe DEUCE RAMSEY is hired to track down eccentric (ie: batshit crazy) millionaire and merry prankster Leo Wyoming, an aging hippie who's planning a local "art … Continue reading Deuce Ramsey
Lee Henry Oswald
Created by Harry Hunsicker Talk about your double-barrelled names! LEE HENRY OSWALD (Call him "Hank."... PLEASE!) is a Dallas PI with one hell of a monicker. He apparently was given his jaw-dropping name in a parental attempt to toughen him up, sorta like on the Johnny Cash song "A Boy Named Sue". It seems to … Continue reading Lee Henry Oswald
Charlie Gants
Created by Terry Marlowe Joint pseudonym of Richard Abshire and William Clair Things going bump in the night? He's on it! CHARLIE GANTS is a troubled ex-homicide detective from Dallas working as a private eye, who appeared in two well-received books with definite supernatural overtones, written by real-life Dallas cops Richard Abshire and William Clair. … Continue reading Charlie Gants
Jack Kyle
Created by Richard Abshire JACK KYLE is an ex-cop turned Dallas gumshoe, who served in Vietnam as a sniper and seems to know way more than he should about explosives. During his cop days he earned the nickname "Turnaround Jack" for his ability to "turnaround" a case. But he's pretty much your typical hard-boiled operative: … Continue reading Jack Kyle