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 As settings go in the Shamus Game, Boston was never really a contender, overshadowed by Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City and Chicago. And then came Spenser, and this cold gray city full of flinty-eyed Irish gangsters, Dunkin'-drinking yobs and bleeding-heart liberals bouncing around in the shadow of history was suddenly full … 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