Created by Lee Goldberg Ex-cop turned insurance investigator EDISON BIXBY is brilliant. Just ask anyone. Hell, just ask him. He's rich and handsome; a certified genius when it comes to cracking seemingly impossible crimes. He's also possibly just plain certifiable, obsessed with a crackpot theory (or is it?) about environmental design and how it affects … Continue reading Edison Bixby & Wally Nash
Tag: Insurance Investigator
Dora Conti
Created by Lawrence Sanders (1920-98) DORA CONTI's a likable, methodical (and happily married) insurance investigator working out of Hartford, Conneticutt, with a soft spot for food and flirtation, who gets more than she bargained for in Lawrence Sander's The Seventh Commandment (1991) when she's dispatched to Manhattan to investigate a $3 million death claim. following … Continue reading Dora Conti
Wolf Lannihan
Created by Lawrence Sanders (1920-98) "She was a little thing but well-machined with everything in abundance and in the right place" "She was all over me like a wet sheet" Before he struck it big with The Anderson Tapes, Lawrence Sanders was just another ink-stained wretch, pumping out blood-and-cum-soaked pulp for Swank Magazine, which may … Continue reading Wolf Lannihan
Fran Kirk
Created by Ruthe Furie (1930-) FRAN KIRK was once a battered wife, but she survived both a nasty divorce and the death of her ex to bec0me a private eye in Cheektowaga, New York (near Buffalo) in this well-regarded series of novels by Ruthe Furie. The debut, 1995's If Looks Could Kill, finds Fran living … Continue reading Fran Kirk
Brian Brett
Created by Christopher Monig Pseudonym of Kendall Foster Crossen Other pseudonyms include Bennett Barlay, M. E. Chaber, Richard Foster & Clay Richards| (1910-81) You want pulp? New York-based insurance claims adjuster BRIAN BRETT narrated his own adventures in four slightly tongue-in-cheek novels by Christopher Monig in the fifties, and was very much a man of … Continue reading Brian Brett
C.W. Briggs (The Curse of the Jade Scorpion)
Created by Woody Allen "You're a nerdy little meglamaniac who's frightened by women." — Fritz puts the Woodster in his place.Woody Allen wrote, directed and starred in The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, a banter-heavy crime farce/romantic comedy set in 1940's Manhattan (where else?), that revolves around hypnotism, a jewel heist and Allen himself as … Continue reading C.W. Briggs (The Curse of the Jade Scorpion)
Deirdre O’Hara
Created by Maurice Gagnon(1912-99) DEIRDRE O'HARA is a "vibrant young Montreal lawyer and highly-specialized marine insurance investigator" who appears in three novels (labelled as "The Deirdre O'Hara Files")and at least one short story, by French-Canadian author Maurice Gagnon. She has a Siberian husky called Red Devil, and lives on a yacht, The Siren, that she keeps … Continue reading Deirdre O’Hara
Zoe Busiek (Wild Card)
Created by Lynn Latham and Bernard Lechowick "Nobody's ever accused me of being an adult before." -- Zoe reveals she’s no SuperMomThe American TV channel Lifetime isn’t exactly known for its hard-boiled fare, but they did make it a watered-down go back in 2003, when they premiered Wild Card, folding some occasionally gritty and often … Continue reading Zoe Busiek (Wild Card)
Pat Thompson
Created by Robert George Dean Pseudonyms include George Griswold (1904-89) "So this is what comes of trying to drink a woman under the table. Just a sacrifice on the altar of insurance!” — Pat the morning after... Tucked away in the wrinkles and folds of the Shamus Game is this little rarity—a hard-boiled private eye … Continue reading Pat Thompson
“Doc” Job (The Hidden Motive)
Created by Lester Powell (1912 -93) The 1952 BBC radio serial The Hidden Motive related the exploits of "DOC" JOB, an eccentric insurance investigator and bibliophile looking into the possibly fraudulent death claim of a legendary Shakespearean actor, Sir Henry Sloan, whose wife died in her bath. Suspicion soon falls on the extremely wealthy thespian, … Continue reading “Doc” Job (The Hidden Motive)