Created by Marshall Thornton Young, bookish LEWIS WAIT finds himself a reluctant operative for the legendary Pinkerton National Detective Agency. He didn't really want the job — he considers the agency merely "a band of thugs and strikebreakers" — but when financial hardship hit the family after the death of his father and brother, he … Continue reading Lewis Wait
Tag: Historical 1910s
Colm Steiner
Created by Nicholas Wagner "When night fell, they burned a campfire and ate a kangaroo." A hard-drinking, hard-loving, hard-edged hard man for hire, COLM STEINER works for the London-based Enquiry Service in the years following World War I, doing whatever needs to be done: find a missing person, qualm a gang war, track down a … Continue reading Colm Steiner
Slim Jim Bannerman
Created by Jay Flynn Pseudonym of John Martin Flynn Other pseudonyms include J.M. Flynn (1928-85) SLIM JIM BANNERMAN is a Denver-based operative for the Gallows Detective Agency in San Francisco, supposedly founded by a former Pinkerton agent named Vernon Gallowes back in 1916. The two novels in this series, written for sleaze merchants Belmot-Tower under … Continue reading Slim Jim Bannerman
Sam Klein
Created by Allan Levine "Tolerance and equality were only words social gospellers ... spoke about. Such acceptance, Klein and every other Jew in Winnipeg knew, was often cheap talk. Neighbourhoods, clubs and summer resorts were all restricted. And yet, in the chaos and turmoil of the strike, something had changed." --The Bolshevik's Revenge The Jets, … Continue reading Sam Klein
Jim Stringer
Created by Andrew Martin A train man to the core, JIM STRINGER finally becomes an official "private eye" (after acting as an amateur sleuth in his first two adventures) when he's given the title of railroad detective for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in The Lost Luggage Porter (2008), the third book in this entertaining … Continue reading Jim Stringer
Billy Bob Holland & The Holland Family Saga
Created by James Lee Burke Writer James Lee Burke, best known for Cajun almost-P.I. Dave Robicheaux cracked open a new series with Deaf Smith, Texas attorney BILLY BOB HOLLAND. Like his more famous creation, Billy Bob is a troubled gent, haunted by the violence of his ancestors (a few of whom have starred in books … Continue reading Billy Bob Holland & The Holland Family Saga