Pseudonym of Gunnar Hjerstedt Other pseudonyms include Lewis Dixon, Alvin F. Hunter, William Richards, Clark Nelson, Daniel White, John Corbett & Donald King (1904-1969) "Keene is a natural storyteller; he keeps things moving right along, and no reader is likely to bored." -- Bill Crider in 1001 Midnights "Even in his minor books, you can see … Continue reading Day Keene
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Kitty Keene
Created by Walter K. Norman Kitty Keene, Inc. was the only soap opera to have a private eye in the leading role (unless you want to count radio's Perry Mason which came out a few years later). The series ran for four years, beginning in September 1937. It was sponsored by Dreft and was on … Continue reading Kitty Keene
Matt Mercer
Created by Day Keene Pseudonym of Gunnar Hjerstedt Other pseudonyms include Lewis Dixon, William Richards, Daniel White, John Corbett & Donald King (1904-1969) "Matt Mercer had come back from the South Pacific, leaving his arm behind on some Jap-infested island until, six-thousand miles away from that hell-hole, he found that the Little Yellow sons had returned--to claim … Continue reading Matt Mercer
Tom Doyle
Created by Day Keene Pseudonym of Gunnar Hjerstedt Other pseudonyms include Lewis Dixon, William Richards, Daniel White, John Corbett & Donald King (1904-1969) TOM DOYLE is a "private agency man" for Chicago's Inter-Ocean Agency, just back from World War II, who appeared in a string of short stories and novellas in the Detective Tales pulp. He also popped … Continue reading Tom Doyle
Doc Egg
Created by Day Keene Pseudonym of Gunnar Hjerstedt Other pseudonyms include Lewis Dixon, William Richards, Daniel White, John Corbett & Donald King (1904-1969) Are you frickin' kidding me? I've occasionally stretched the boundaries of the definition of what a private eye is to the breaking point on this site, but this? A "bright-eyed, bald little man … Continue reading Doc Egg
Silent Smith (The Silver Fox)
Created by Day Keene Pseudonym of Gunnar Hjerstedt Other pseudonyms include Lewis Dixon, William Richards, Daniel White, John Corbett & Donald King (1904-1969) I'm not even sure what SILENT SMITH's occupation was, exactly--or even if he had one, but he was known as the "Silver Fox of Broadway" in a slew of stories in Dime Detective … Continue reading Silent Smith (The Silver Fox)
Johnny Aloha
Created by Day Keene Pseudonym of Gunnar Hjerstedt (1904-1969) "Familiar enough in its sex and violence and in its expose of criminous goings on in the pop-record business; but it's fast, lively and professional, and Irish-Hawaiian Johnny Aloha is better company than many of ficiton's private eyes." -- Anthony Boucher, New York Times, on Payola … Continue reading Johnny Aloha