Created by John R. Kelly Pass. Okay, it was a brazen enough gimmick roping in Chandler, Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner, Raoul Whitfield and various other torch carriers of the Shamus Game as amateur or even professional sleuths, and the results were generally, hit or miss. Now Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, C.S. Lewis and J.R. Tolkien … Continue reading The Inklings Detective Agency
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Saz Martin
Created by Stella Duffy Back in the 1990s the British government came up with this bright idea of encouraging those on the dole to set up their own businesses. So SAZ MARTIN tells them she's going to become a private eye. So now the South London "dyke detective" (her publisher's description) is ready for action, … Continue reading Saz Martin
Henry von Stray
Created by John McAleer (1923-2003) Continued by Andrew McAleer HENRY von STRAY is a London-based private detective created by Edgar-winner and Rex Stout John McAleer, according to his son Andrew McAleer. Apparently, nobody had any idea the character even existed, until a handwritten copy of the only known von Stray story, "The Case of the … Continue reading Henry von Stray
Lennox Kemp
Created by M.R.D. Meek Pseudonyms include Alison Cairns (1918-2009) According to one blurb, England's fat, balding fortyish LENNOX KEMP is a "struck-off solicitor turned inquiry agent." Er, disbarred shyster becomes a private peeper, anyone? Anyway, while waiting to be reinstated (the events leading up to his disbarment are related in the first book in the … Continue reading Lennox Kemp
The Streets of London
Let them take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London... Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Mick Cardby by David Hume Fitzroy Maclean Angel by Mike Ripley James Hazell by P.B. Yuill George Harley by Phil Lecomber (Soho) Albert Easterbrook by Bridget Walsh (Victorian London) Barney Huggins by Mike … Continue reading The Streets of London
Mick Cardby
Created by David Hume Pseudonym of J. V. Turner Other pseudonyms include Nicholas Brady (1905-1945) An exasperated and disappointed Detective Inspector Cardby of Scotland Yard must have wondered "Where did I go wrong?" That's because his son MICK CARDBY decided he'd rather earn a living as a private investigator, rather than joining the police department … Continue reading Mick Cardby
George Harley
Created by Phil Lecomber "Whisky and a splash, please." So, while the likes of Race Williams, The Continental Op and Sam Spade were going down those pre-Chandler mean streets of 1920s America and kicking butt in the pages of Black Mask, across the pond low-rent hard man and private investigator GEORGE HARLEY was plying his … Continue reading George Harley
Sam Hunter (Hunted)
Created by Frank Spotnitz (1960--) Award-winning writer and producer Frank Spotnitz (one of the headwaiters for The X-Files) was behind this eight-part suspense thriller from 2012 that I just stumbled across, more than a decade later. with an international espionage story line. Melissa George starred as SAM HUNTER, a kick-ass (and gorgeous) operative for Byzantium, … Continue reading Sam Hunter (Hunted)
Joe Dust
Created by Peter Graaf Pseudonym of Samuel Youd Other pseudonyms John Christopher, Hilary Ford, Peter Nichols, Stanley Winchester, William Godfrey, William Vine, and Anthony Rye (1922-2012) Tagged on the back cover as the "private eye with a public past," straight outta Brooklyn JOE DUST has somehow landed in London, England, where he's manning a one-man … Continue reading Joe Dust
Colm Steiner
Created by Nicholas Wagner "When night fell, they burned a campfire and ate a kangaroo." A hard-drinking, hard-loving, hard-edged hard man for hire, COLM STEINER works for the London-based Enquiry Service in the years following World War I, doing whatever needs to be done: find a missing person, qualm a gang war, track down a … Continue reading Colm Steiner