Created by James Patterson "Kathleen Beavier was a virgin. She'd never had sexual intercourse. But she was pregnant." This ex-sister is doing it for herself. ANNE FITZGERALD earned her masters in psychology from Harvard. She spent three and a half years with the Boston Police Department while paying her way through school, and discovered she … Continue reading Anne Fitzgerald
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Angie Matelli
Created by Wendi Lee Almost thirty "good Italian girl" ANGELA "ANGIE" MATELLI is a former Marine turned Boston private eye who knows how to take care of herself, and isn't afraid to give justice a little nudge in the right direction every now and then. Her best pal is Raina, the East Boston police dispatcher … Continue reading Angie Matelli
Charles Stubblefield
Created by D.H. Reddall CHARLES STUBBLEFIELD is a Cape Cod P.I with a bit of heft to him, and a reputation for being tough and tenacious. He appeared in a string of slightly-more-hardboiled-than-usual short stories in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine... and even one right in these pages. A history buff, Charles grew up on the … Continue reading Charles Stubblefield
“With One Eye Open”
A Charles Stubblefield Mystery by D. H. Reddall Fall 2006 When Billy Farrell explained his problem to me, I said “Go to the cops.” “I did. They said there’s nothing they can do unless he threatens her or hurts her, or unless she files for a restraining order." “Tell her to get the restraining order, then.” … Continue reading “With One Eye Open”
Frank Raven
Created by Fred DeVecca Once upon a crime, most of the classic private eyes were pretty much quirk-free. Oh, Marlowe played chess alone, Spade slept with his partner’s wife and Hammer called his death-spitting roscoe Betsy or something. But that was pretty much it. But retired private dick FRANK RAVEN more than makes up for … Continue reading Frank Raven
Ah, Boston, You’re My Home
Beantown Eyes Spenser by Robert B. Parker Thomas Dreddiker 'Dred' Balcazar by Ned White Thomas Banacek by Anthony Wilson Tom Bethany by Jerome Doolittle Harvey Blissberg by Richard Rosen (Cambridge) Carlotta Carlyle by Linda Barnes Flashgun Casey by George Harmon Coxe Dennis Chase (21 Beacon Street) by Leonard Heideman Brady Coyne by William G. Tapply Tommy … Continue reading Ah, Boston, You’re My Home
A. Dunster Lowell (The Boston Terrier)
Created by Blake Edwards & Tom Waldman Blake Edward must have really liked this idea. After failing to interest any of the networks in his 60-minute pilot, The Boston Terrier, about the adventures of suave, Harvard-educated (and presumably dogged) private eye A. DUNSTER LOWELL in 1962, Edwards tried again the next year with a revamped thirty-minute version—in … Continue reading A. Dunster Lowell (The Boston Terrier)
Harry Dickinson
Created by David Black There have been plenty of attempts over the years to recast Don Quixote as a private eye. Possibly because the private eye is such an easy target, a big ass cliche just waiting to be lampooned (or harpooned), there has been no shortage of gentle parodies of the genre featuring mentally … Continue reading Harry Dickinson
Ruth Law
Created by Ken Liu "He misses her, like missing a mirror you’ve broken." In "The Regular," a short story by acclaimed sci-fi writer Ken Liu, we're introduced to RUTH LAW, a coldly efficient half-Chinese, half-American private eye who works out of a tiny office above a butcher shop in Boston's Chinatown. She specializes mostly in "hidden assets, … Continue reading Ruth Law
Captain Jim Agnihotri
Created by Nev March It's 1892, and Anglo-Indian Sherlock Holmes fan CAPTAIN JIM AGNIHOTRI of the British Army's 14th Light Cavalry Regiment, is recovering from his wounds from a "skirmish on the wild northern frontier" in a Bombay's Poona military hospital when we meet him in the Edgar-nominated Murder in Bombay (2020), the kick-off book in … Continue reading Captain Jim Agnihotri