Created by Ellis Weiner Talk about your crime and PUNishment. PETE INGALLS, the narrator of Drop Dead, My Lovely (2004), Ellis Weiner's decidedly broad but loving lampoon of the private eye genre, is a thirty-three year old bookstore nebbish who suffers a serious whack on the kabonza. Before you can say "Don Quixote," he's set … Continue reading Pete Ingalls
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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
Harry Dickinson
Created by David Black There have been plenty of attempts over the years to recast Don Quixote as a private eye. Possibly because the private eye is such an easy target, a big ass cliche just waiting to be lampooned (or harpooned), there has been no shortage of gentle parodies of the genre featuring mentally … Continue reading Harry Dickinson
Peter Ord
Created by Paul D. Brazil "Some twat, somewhere, was playing a U2 song, over and over again, and all was far from friggin' quiet on New Year's  Day." -- Peter greets the New Year with a hangover, a flat beer and little appreciation for Bono & the boys, in Gumshoe Blues Liberally laced with black … Continue reading Peter Ord