Created by Paul W. Papa Here we go again... MASSIMO "MAX" ROSSI is the suitably hard-boiled house detective for the infamous Sands Hotel & Casino in 1950s Las Vegas, which means a lot of Rat Pack references, drinks and babes and gangsters and goons galore, of course. It all feels sorta like a cup of instant … Continue reading Max Rossi
Tag: Historical 1950s
Jack Mitchell (The City of Shadows series)
Created by Harry Turtledove City of Angels? If only... It's the 1950s, and hard-drinking, chain-smoking, hard-boiled Los Angeles JACK MITCHELL is right out of central casting — except that the post-war mean streets he goes down are teeming with creatures Marlowe never had to deal with: vampires, ghosts, wizards, talking cats, zombies and assorted creepy … Continue reading Jack Mitchell (The City of Shadows series)
Perry Cutter (Los Monstruos)
Created by James Robinson (writer) and Jesus Merino (art) Stop me if you've heard this one before... So once again we're back in the retro-1950s, with a hard-boiled private eye, PERRY CUTTER, and all the allegedly noir trimmings. Familiar turf, especially for a comic book. Then again, Los Montruos from Dark Horse, being a 21st … Continue reading Perry Cutter (Los Monstruos)
Brian Kane
Created by Jack Bludis BRIAN KANE is a Hollywood eye, with a weakness for Camels and young starlets. He works the dirty side of the mean streets of Tinsel Town in the early fifties, peeping in windows, snapping pictures and generally trying to survive. Although Brian's beat is supposedly the unglamourous side of town, where … Continue reading Brian Kane
Evander Mills
Created by Lev AC Rosen "Ruby is the most welcoming queer bar in San Francisco. Except maybe for me. News has trickled out about me--the gay P.I. with the office above the Ruby--but with it so has my past, and no one at a gay bar wants to get too close to a cop, even … Continue reading Evander Mills
Ray Corson
Created by Max Phillips "Well, maybe she wasn't all that blonde, but it'd be a crime to call hair like that light brown. It was more sort of lion-colored." One of the first books released under the Hard Case Crime imprint, co-founder Max Phillips' Fade to Blonde immediately set the standard for the feisty paperback … Continue reading Ray Corson
Scott Elliott
Created by Terence Faherty (1954 --) Another of the growing breed of retro eyes (see Toby Peters, Jack Levine, Brian Kane, Nate Heller, etc.), the adventures of Tinseltown gumshoes SCOTT ELLIOTT take him from Hollywood's so-called "Golden Age" of the 1940s right up to the late sixties. A former bit-player (a nice word for failed actor) … Continue reading Scott Elliott
Sam McCain (aka “Cody McCain”)
Created by Ed Gorman Pseudonyms include Richard Driscoll, Chris Shea McCarrick, Daniel Ransom, E.J. Gorman, Edward Gorman Jr. & Robert David Chase (1941-2016) In the late fifties, rookie attorney SAM McCAIN finds himself in Black River Falls, Iowa, the "least successful lawyer" in a "a town that already had too many lawyers." So he agrees--reluctantly, … Continue reading Sam McCain (aka “Cody McCain”)
Rex Rivetter
Created by Greg and Rhiannon McAfee "Some folks call it noir or pulp fiction. But for a private eye named Rex Rivetter, it's home." In-mid 2015, San Diego’s Greg and Rhiannon McAfee approached old pal Dave Rivas with the idea of producing a new weekly podcast, along the lines of the old time radio detective … Continue reading Rex Rivetter
Skylar Drake
Created by Janet Elizabeth Lynn & Will Zeilinger SoCal in the mid-1950s, and everyone’s having fun fun fun, even if nobody’s even heard of The Beach Boys. Yet. It’s not all fun, fun, fun, though, and that's what keeps former LAPD detective and Korean war vet SKYLAR DRAKE going. When we first meet him, in Slivers of … Continue reading Skylar Drake