Created by Tiziano Sclavi From Italy comes this comic book featuring a rather bizarrely-named London-based private eye, DYLAN DOG, put out by. comic publisher Sergio Bonelli Editore since 1986. And it isn't just his name that's rather peculiar. Nope, not for the former Scotland Yard detective the humdrum banal world of marital affairs and divorce … Continue reading Dylan Dog
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Duffy
Created by Dan Kavanagh Pseudonym of Julian Barnes And now, we proudly present the cheeky bi-eye... DUFFY is an ex-cop who runs a one-man detective agency. Oh yeah, and he's a swinging bi-sexual too. In the self-titled series opener from 1980 he's hired to find out who is blackmailing a man whose wife was recently … Continue reading Duffy
Billy Rucker
Created by Adam Baron Here's a new private eye writer I've just discovered who bears watching: his name's Adam Baron, he's British, and he's written a few books about London private eye BILLY RUCKER. There's a nice bittersweetness to them; a world-weary tone and an original voice at work here, tempered with a yearning compassion … Continue reading Billy Rucker
Lao She & Judge Dee Ren Jie
Created by S.J. Rozan & John Shen Yen Nee If you're a hardcore mystery buff, you may be thinking: "Wait a minute! Wasn't Judge Dee a fictional detective in a series of novels written from the b1940s through the 1960s by Robert van Gulik?" And you'd be more or less correct. Judge Dee (or Judge Di, … Continue reading Lao She & Judge Dee Ren Jie
Ludovic Travers
Created by Christopher Bush Pseudonyms include Noel Barclay and Michael Home (1885-1973) "And that’s not all. Somers is dead too … He poisoned himself … in the lounge!” —from Murder in Fenwold LUDOVIC TRAVERS, a tall, skinny, bespectacled and introspective economist and amateur sleuth, eventually turns pro when he becomes the owner of the Broad … Continue reading Ludovic Travers
Solar Pons
Created by August Derleth (1909-71) "How many budding authors, not even old enough to vote, could have captured the spirit and atmosphere with as much fidelity?" -- Ellery Queen on"The Norcross Riddle" One of the most popular--and certainly the longest-running--Sherlock Holmes pastiches of all comes from the heart of the American Midwest. When he was … Continue reading Solar Pons
Lesley Shane
Created by Conrad Frost & Oliver Passingham Before Honey West, before Ms. Tree and Kinsey and V.I. and Lisbeth and all the rest, there was LESLEY SHANE, written by Conrad Frost and drawn by British artist Oliver Passingham. A savvy, competent private eye doing what had to be done, right there in public for all to see in … Continue reading Lesley Shane
Romeo Brown
Created by Alfred “Maz” Mazure From out of Great Britain came the cheeky comic strip misadventures of ROMEO BROWN, an elegant, dashing young private eye (and charmingly inept ladies man) whose clients—wouldn’t you know it?—were invariably young, totally gorgeous women, all of whom seemed more than willing to be seduced by Romeo's charms. He solved … Continue reading Romeo Brown
Nick Ryan (Hutson)
Created by Shaun Hutson London gumshoe NICK RYAN is your average loser private eye. His wife and daughter have gone off to live with some rich bloke, he smokes too much, drinks too much, entertains rather violent thoughts, has terrible taste in music and he's a very sick man. When his daughter is kidnapped by … Continue reading Nick Ryan (Hutson)
Jasmine Frame
Created by P.R. Ellis Pseudonym of Peter/Peggy Ellis She used to be Jim Frame, a cop (a detective constable, in fact, for the Thames Valley Police), she used to be married, she used to be a man. Now she’s JASMINE FRAME, she’s single, she’s working freelance. And she’s on her way to becoming a woman. … Continue reading Jasmine Frame