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
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Johnny Killain
Created by Dan J. Marlowe (1914-87) JOHNNY KILLAIN is a "tough, but not inhuman" hotel dick/bell captain/night porter/bouncer and part-time detective working out of the Hotel Duarte in New York City who appeared in a spate of hard-charging Avon paperback originals by Dan J. Marlowe in the late fifties/early sixties. According to Josef Hoffmann in … Continue reading Johnny Killain
Marty Bond
Created by Ed Lacy Pseudonym of of Leonard S. Zinberg (1911-68) MARTY BOND was at one time a notorious "cop, judge, brute, and little god.” But all good things must come to an end, and when we meet in the standalone novel The Men From the Boys (1956), he's finally "retired" from the NYPD, and is … Continue reading Marty Bond
January Cole
Created by Rob Hart JANUARY COLE is not your average house dick. That's because she's head of security at the Paradox Hotel, someplace in the not-so-distant future where uber-rich yahoos--in costume, no less--gather to be zapped back into the past. Alas, the technology--which the government's planning to privatize soon--isn't always all it could be, with … Continue reading January Cole
Bud Delaney (Last Hours Before Morning)
Created by Robert Garland & George Yanok If it wasn't for the fact that there's an IMDB page for this made-for-TV movie, I might think I just imagined that I watched Last Hours Before Morning back in 1975. There are no clips from it on YouTube, no images that a Google search came up with. But I recall … Continue reading Bud Delaney (Last Hours Before Morning)
Mike Land (Land’s End)
Created by Fred Dryer & Victor A. Schiro and Peter Gethers & David Handler For your consideration, I humbly submit to your list of TV eyes the name MIKE LAND of the syndicated series Land's End which ran during the 1995-96 season. Mike, played by Fred Dryer, of Hunter fame, is a retired L.A.P.D. detective … Continue reading Mike Land (Land’s End)