Created by James Ellroy(1948--) It's 1942 in post-Pearl Harbor Los Angeles, the blackout's on and the "Jap scare" is going full-tilt, and SPADE HEARNS is a laudanum-tippling P.I. wondering where the lights went, in the short story "Torch Number" by James Ellroy. Hard up for paying cases, the former LAPD detective finds himself working for … Continue reading Spade Hearns
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Freddy Otash
Created by James Ellroy (1948--) "Ellroy’s a dipshit. I knew him in my waning months alive. I’ve been granted tell-all telepathy. I will know that cocksucker cold." -- Freddy nails Ellroy to the wall, in "Shakedown" According to Wikipedia, FREDDY OTASH was "a Los Angeles police officer, private investigator, author, and a WWII Marine veteran, who … Continue reading Freddy Otash
Danny Getchell
Created by James Ellroy(1948--) "I wiggled wires. I circumscribed circuits. I rigged reciprocal reverb and sent sound to both rooms. I picked up my Polaroid and flew off the floor.I hammered down the hallway. I banged both doors off their bolts. I found the fetching foursome perched in Pat's parlor.Pat was knock-kneed nude. Parker's pants … Continue reading Danny Getchell
Fritz Brown
Created by James Ellroy (1948--) Self-proclaimed crime fiction enfant terrible James Ellroy's one and only private eye novel to date features morally-ambiguous, Beethoven-loving ex-cop turned low-rent slacker private detective FRITZ BROWN. Fritz admits he wasn't Los Angeles' finest police officer, copping that he was "an uneasy, malcontented one at first, until the booze came along … Continue reading Fritz Brown
Fallen Angels
(1993-95, Showtime) FALLEN ANGELS was a crime television anthology that aired on the American network, Showtime, in the 1990's. Not all the episodes featured private eyes, or even detectives, per se, but who cares? It paired some great hard-boiled and noir short stories by some of the genre's masters (you know, hacks like Raymond Chandler, … Continue reading Fallen Angels