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
Tag: Detective Fiction Weekly
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
Carole Trevor (The Old Towne Detective Agency)
Created by Judson P. Philips Other peuedonyms include Philip Owen, Hugh Pentecost (1903 – 1989)  Feisty, headstrong socialite CAROLE TREVOR  runs the Old Towne Detective Agency, given to her by her goofy but affable man-about-town ex-husband, wealthy New York socialite Maxwell Blythe. It was a parting gift after their divorce that he fully expected her to sell off—he gave … Continue reading Carole Trevor (The Old Towne Detective Agency)
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)
Tug Norton
Created by Edward Parrish Ware (1883–1949) Private dick. Cowboy. Raconteur. Philosopher. Edward Parrish Ware’s TUG NORTON was all those things. He was the star of over forty short stories and novelettes in the pages of of the pulps (mostly Flynn’s Detective Weekly, but also Dime Detective) from 1926 until 1934. Each of the stories is narrated … Continue reading Tug Norton
Candid Jones
Created by Richard Sale Pseudonyms include Bernard Elas, Seymour Richards, John St. John (1911-93) "I was never afraid of any man, and I always figured that if a guy was going to get rough with you, the best thing to do was to get rough with him first." -- "Long Shot" Weegee-like freelance photographer/investigator TERRENCE "CANDID" JONES … Continue reading Candid Jones
Daffy Dill
Created by Richard SalePseudonyms include Bernard Elas, Seymour Richards, John St. John(1911-93) Nearly every detective pulp worth its salt had some sort of brash, wisecracking reporter lurking among its regulars, sticking his nose into things, and Detective Fiction Weekly was no exception. It had easy-going (but pistol-packing) JOE "DAFFY" DILL of The New York Chronicle, always seemingly one step … Continue reading Daffy Dill
My Bookshelf: Four-&-Twenty Bloodhounds, edited by Anthony Boucher
My Bookshelf  Four-&-Twenty Bloodhounds, edited and with introductions by Anthony Boucher This early anthology (1950) from the Mystery Writers of America may have seemed to be just the usual grab bag of stories from all across the genre, and indeed the cover of the original hard cover edition promised short stories "of fictional detectives... … Continue reading My Bookshelf: Four-&-Twenty Bloodhounds, edited by Anthony Boucher
My Bookshelf: The Hardboiled Dicks
My Bookshelf The Hardboiled Dicks, edited by Ron Goulart An absolute essential for anyone who loves this stuff, Ron Goulart's 1965 The Hardboiled Dicks (my 1967 paperback reprint is the one pictured above) was one of the first collections of hard-boiled detective fiction from the thirties and forties crime and detective pulps, preceded by only … Continue reading My Bookshelf: The Hardboiled Dicks
Jigger Masters
Created by Anthony M. Rud Pseudonyms include Anson Piper (1893-1942) "Now what in the name of the seven sacred sea lions!" -- Jigger's favourite exclamation J.C.K. "JIGGER" MASTERS earned his nickname at the ripe old age of eleven when, while working as a  caddy at a Long Island golf course, he stumbled across a corpse … Continue reading Jigger Masters