Because We Did Something Bad in a Past Life Hear that dim buzzing? It's the 20th-century pulp giants collectively rolling in their graves. IF YOU’RE an Apple TV user, or you drift around the more movie- and TV-centric regions of the web, you’ve likely picked up that Sugar, starring Colin Farrell, is coming back for a … Continue reading Sugar Returns…
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Tom Welles (8MM)
Created by Andrew Kevin Walker Everyone take a shower. Happily-married, and boasting a new-born daughter, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania surveillance expert and private eye TOM WELLES is hired by a wealthy widow to track down the origins of a reel of 8mm film that seems to depict the murder of a young girl. Tom's soon in way … Continue reading Tom Welles (8MM)
Hank Howard (Pizza Detective)
Created by Robert Venditti and David Lapham "Just because pizza is round doesn't mean you can cut corners." HANK HOWARD isn't a man you meet every day. No matter how you slice it. Sure, he's a private eye, a hard-boiled and slightly rumpled doofus right out of central casting, complete with the obligatory fedora and … Continue reading Hank Howard (Pizza Detective)
Oke Oakley and Secrets. Inc.
Created by Frederick C. Davis Pseudonyms include Clark Aiken, Garry Grant & Stephen Ransome (1902-77) Just in case anyone thought Joe Gores was the first to relate the adventures of a large, fictional detective agency with his justifiably acclaimed Dan Kearney & Associates series, they ought to check out pulpster Frederick C. Davis' tales of … Continue reading Oke Oakley and Secrets. Inc.
Jack Chandler (Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers)
Created by Fred Olen Ray (1954--) and B.J. Nestles Pseudonym of Terrill Lee Lankford "I'd stumbled into the middle of an evil, insidious cult of chainsaw worshipping maniacs. I had to wonder if we'd let our religious freedom go too far in this country, or maybe our immigration laws were just too lax." — Jack … Continue reading Jack Chandler (Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers)
Gene Burk
Created by John Kaye (1941--) Don't look back -- something may be gaining on you. In John Kaye's well-received The Dead Circus (2002), a noirish ode to dark secrets and the buried past, it's 1986, and GENE BURK is an ex-cop turned Hollywood private eye, obsessed with rock'n' roll, and still reeling over the death … Continue reading Gene Burk
Whistler
Created by Robert Campbell (1927-2000) "The Santa Ana winds were blowing in from the valley through the passes, sweeping up the pulverized dog droppings, gum wrappers, old newspapers, and bleached confetti, whirling the mess down the gutters toward yesterday." —from Alice in La-La Land All you need to know about how the author feels about … Continue reading Whistler
Hollywood Dicks
Tinseltown Troupers "A dreary industrial town controlled by hoodlums of enormous wealth, the ethical sense of a pack of jackals and taste so degraded that it befouled everything it touched."— "On Hollywood," by noted Dan Turmer fan S. J. Perelman Sure, there are about 23,000 private eyes serving the City of Angels. Here are a … Continue reading Hollywood Dicks
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
Hollywood Fixers
Tinseltown Troubleshooters Some have argued that Shakespeare's Friar Lawrence may have been the original "fixer," working on behalf of Juliet, whose boyfriend Romeo has just killed her cousin (Ooops!). Trying to avert a bloody gang war between the Montagues and Capulets, Lawrence comes up with an elaborate scheme which had the two young lovers faking … Continue reading Hollywood Fixers