Created by David E. Kelley "So that's why you brought me here--TO WAX ME?" -- Glenn, to serial killer who wants to turn her into a mannequin. Snoops, TV hot shot David E. Kelley's short-lived series, about a high-priced female-owned and operated detective agency in Santa Monica, California, premiered the weekend of September 25, 1999, … Continue reading Glenn Hall, Dana Plant, Roberta Young & Manny Lott (Snoops)
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Carey McCandless & Jessica Williams
Created by J.C. Vaughan You have to give veteran comic writer J.C. Vaughan a thumbs up for persistence -- he's been trying to get his creator-owned private eye series, McCandless & Company, out for over fifteen years, toughing it out through broken promises, bad luck, false starts, revolving artists, a tangled reprinting history, and Lord … Continue reading Carey McCandless & Jessica Williams
Carlotta Carlyle
Created by Linda Barnes CARLOTTA CARLYLE's one tall (six feet!), red-headed, tough-talking, blues-loving, heart-on-her-sleeve-wearing, ex-cop cab-driving P.I. cruising the streets of Boston, MA, looking for trouble in all the wrong places. And usually finding it. "As smart as Spenser and as mean as Hawk" is how Margaret Cannon in The Globe and Mail puts it. … Continue reading Carlotta Carlyle
Velda Bellinghausen
Created by Ron Miller From the The New York Graphic, February 2, 1951: CHORUS GIRL TURNS SHAMUS "To the disappointment of her many admirers, Miss Velda Bellinghausen, one of the better-known of the leggy chorines of Slotnik's Famous Follies, has turned in her g-string. What does the retiring ecdysiast plan to do with her time? … Continue reading Velda Bellinghausen
Betty Blake
Created by H.L. Parkhurst "The Girl Super-Detective Who Always Gets Her Man!" -- the tagline announcing a story coming up in the next issue BETTY BLAKE was a sort of classier, more upscale version of Sally the Sleuth--she even managed to keep her clothes on most of the time. She appeared in a handful of two-page comic … Continue reading Betty Blake
Jessica Shaw
Created by Lisa Gray Private investigator and road warrior JESSICA SHAW has been tracking down missing persons for seven years ("five in New York, and the last two on the road). She's good at her job, but she's hardened over the years, to the point where she casually divides adult missing persons into two simple, cynical … Continue reading Jessica Shaw
Ms. Tree
Created by Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty Since Mike Hammer was originally planned for comic books, it only seems fitting that Spillane defender/apologist and hard-boiled renaissance man Max Allan Collins' "female Mike Hammer," MICHAEL TREE, should appear in the appropriate medium. And who knows? Collins is probably most famous for his historical detective novels … Continue reading Ms. Tree
Grace Adams & Aunt Agatha
Created by Kin Platt (?) The Agatha Detective Agency was a part of the supporting cast of Nedor's Captain Future, a costumed superhero very much in the Superman mode who appeared regularly in superhero anthology Startling Comics in the early nineteen forties, alongside such other characters as Pyroman and The Fighting Yank. The agency had just two members: … Continue reading Grace Adams & Aunt Agatha
Violet McDade & Nevada Alvarado
Created by Cleve F. Adams (1895-1949) "Violet hit him. Not hard, just a backhanded sweep across the room." -- Nevada relates how her boss handles men. The honour of being the first hard-boiled lady private eye arguably belongs to the buxom young lass over there to the right, Cleve F. Adams'Â VIOLET McDADE, who made her … Continue reading Violet McDade & Nevada Alvarado
Charlie’s Angels
Sabrina Duncan, Jill Munroe, Kelly Garrett, Kris Munroe, Tiffany Welles, Julie Rogers, Natalie Cook, Dylan Sanders, Alex Munday, Kate Prince, Eve French, Abby Sampson, Sabina Wilson, Elena Houghlan and Jane Kanos Created by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts "Once upon a time there were three beautiful girls who went to the police academy, and they … Continue reading Charlie’s Angels