Created by Reuben Leder "Computers are for sissies!" — Luther A recurring figure on Magnum, P.I., veteran character actor Eugene Roche played LUTHER GILLIS, an old school private eye from St. Louis. And I mean old school. Luther was a rough-and-tumble throwback, a hard-drinking, two-fisted private dick right out of the fifties. Or maybe the … Continue reading Luther Gillis
Tag: Hawaii
Eddie Mazada (Trenchcoat in Paradise)
Created by Tom Dempsey After incurring the wrath of Dom Gellatti, a local mob boss, who makes him an offer he dare not refuse, cigar-chomping Jersey City P.I. EDDIE MAZADA strikes out for safer and definitely greener pastures, in the 1989 made-for-TV movie Trenchcoat in Paradise. Namely Hawaii. And who could blame him? As played … Continue reading Eddie Mazada (Trenchcoat in Paradise)
Kip Muldane
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
H.H. Flynn
Created by Donald P. Bellisario H.H. FLYNN is one of a handful of P.I.s on this site who don't really exist. He was the hero of a script by TV writer Donald P. Bellisario for a pilot for a TV series that was never made. In Bellisario's original script, Flynn was a high-priced Los Angeles … Continue reading H.H. Flynn
Stryker McBride
Created by Charley Memminger It says something about the ongoing appeal of Travis McGee that so many writers have been inspired to create Travis-like heroes themselves. But Charley Memminger's STRYKER McBRIDE may be one of the most obvious yet. I mean, look at that cover over there! This Hawaiian-bound sleuth, a beer-swigging former crime reporter, … Continue reading Stryker McBride
Rick Bishop
Created by Larry Darter RICK BISHOP is a former cop turned easy-going Honolulu private eye created by Larry Darter. Rick specializes in divorce investigations or anything else that doesn't seem too taxing. Along with his two buddies Joe Rose and Koko Mahelona, he bumbles his way through assorted Magnum-like antics, collecting various bumps, bruises, cracked ribs, … Continue reading Rick Bishop
Byrd (Hawaiian Dick)
Created by B. Clay Moore & Steven Griffin "Thank God the Tiki Bar's still open Thank God the Tiki lights still shine Thank God the Tiki Bar's still open Come on in and open up your mind..." --John Hiatt If Raymond Chandler had worn a few more Hawaiian shirts and learned how to chill, maybe … Continue reading Byrd (Hawaiian Dick)
Sandy McKane
Created by William Campbell Gault Pseudonyms include Roney Scott, Will Duke, Bill Gault, David Crewe & Ray P. Shotwell (1910-1995) Before he came up with Brock "The Rock" Callahan, William Campbell Gault tinkered with several private eyes in various short stories, including SAUNDERS "SANDY" MCKANE, a member of an old Honolulu family, "now extinct," turned … Continue reading Sandy McKane
Let’s Go to Hawaii
Hawaiian Eyes "In Honolulu there's some swinging sights Wild party's going everynight I'm not invited, heard some people say But I dont care, I'm going anyway!" -- "Let's Go to Hawaii" by Teenage Head Alexis Albright by J.M.T. Miller Byrd by B. Clay Moore John Caine by Charles Knief (Oahu) Sandy McKane by William Campbell … Continue reading Let’s Go to Hawaii
Tom Lopaka, Tracy Steele & Greg MacKenzie (Hawaiian Eye)
Created by Roy Huggins "The soft island breeze brings you strange melodies And they tell of exotic mysteries under the tropical spell of Hawaiian Eye. Hawaiian Eye. Hawaiian Eye." -- most irritating TV theme ever? Another piece of product from the Warner Bros. TV Eye factory, picture this as "77 Sunset Strip goes Hawaiian." But … Continue reading Tom Lopaka, Tracy Steele & Greg MacKenzie (Hawaiian Eye)