Created by Michael Webb Clueless young New Orleans private eye BIFF BASHAM stumbles into a dumpster fire of a case in Help! My Gumshoe’s an Idiot!, a low-budget 2018 turkey that attempts to do to the Shamus Game what Airplane! did to air travel. Nope. Not even close. With so many absurd sight gags, wisecracks, … Continue reading Biff Basham (Help! My Gumshoe’s an Idiot!)
Tag: Louisiana
Rafe Guttman (Bordello of Blood)
Created by Robert Zemeckis (1952--) and Bob Gale (1951--) Here's another one for you from the Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers category. You know, you find private eyes in the strangest places... RAFE GUTTMAN, the seedy, sarcastic, sardonic P.I. hero of the second Tales From The Crypt movie, Bordello Of Blood, is basically Dennis Miller, Private Eye. … Continue reading Rafe Guttman (Bordello of Blood)
Tyrone Gable & Rinty “The Gaffer” McLaren
Created by Niklas Three It's 1999 and "hard-boiled" Windy City dicks TYRONE GABLE and RINTY "THE GAFFER" MCLAREN are the cash-strapped stars of the action-packed, wise-cracking Roll (2023), venturing deep into Dick Francis territory, travelling to Louisiana to track down a prized thoroughbred that has disappeared. It's all narrated by the surpisingly chatty Gable, a … Continue reading Tyrone Gable & Rinty “The Gaffer” McLaren
Sister Holiday Walsh
Created by Margot Douaihy In her debut, 2023's Scorched Grace, SISTER HOLIDAY, a young nun with the Sisters of the Sublime Blood order in New Orleans, proved herself to be a particularly effective amateur sleuth. Seems she has a thing about unanswered questions. And isn't that what faith is, really? The unsolvable mystery? But this … Continue reading Sister Holiday Walsh
Valentin St. Cyr
Created by David Fulmer Creole detective VALENTIN ST. CYR works the carnival world of 1907 Storyville, New Orleans. In this notorious red-light district, "sporting" girls ply the trade in mansion parlors and dime-a-trick cribs, cocaine and opium are sold over the counter, rye whiskey flows like an amber river, and the nights echo with a … Continue reading Valentin St. Cyr
“Piece by Piece”
By Paul Sundeson Featuring Gil Barntree Holiday 2007 New Orleans March 1962 “Thirty cents a gallon for ethyl?” my partner Frank Whitney said. We were parked in his Mercury just up Burgundy Street from the garage. “No wonder they're not pulling in the customers.” Hyams Auto Repair was a long white barn with a tin roof … Continue reading “Piece by Piece”
William Fletcher
Created by Grant Bywaters "His face looked like it'd been shoved into an airplane propeller." -- from The Red Storm. Boxing ain't pretty. The Red Storm by Grant Waters won the Minotaur Books Private Eye Writers of America Best First Private Eye Novel Contest, and introduced WILLIAM FLETCHER, a black ex-fighter turned rookie private eye, … Continue reading William Fletcher
Dave “Mace” Mason
Created by Dick Lochte Only you know and I know just how good Dick Lochte can be... In Blues in the Night (2012), Lochte, one of the most reliable--if hardly the most prolific--writers in the Shamus Game, ditches the weatherman (at least for a while) and delivers a first rate new character: ex-con DAVE "MACE" … Continue reading Dave “Mace” Mason
Terry Manion
Created by Dick Lochte Quiet and bookish, recovering alcoholic TERRY MANION is a private eye who's just been sprung from a New Orleans rehab joint when he discovers that his best friend and mentor J.J. Legendre, a fellow investigator, has committed suicide, in the pulpy, zippy Blue Bayou (1992). But J.J's not the only one--seems … Continue reading Terry Manion
Nick Travers
Created by Ace Atkins (1970--) Maybe no one can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell, but Ace Atkins certainly gives it a shot. Former New Orleans Saint NICK TRAVERS blew his pro football career when he punched out his coach out (LIVE! ON NATIONAL TELEVISION!). Not the greatest career move... So now he's a … Continue reading Nick Travers