Created by Kelley Roos Pseudonym of William Roos (1911–1987) and Audrey Roos (1912–1982) "She was the most luscious, blue-eyed, baby-faced blonde I had ever seen, and she was dancing with my husband. I was tempted to scratch her eyes out..." Kelley Roos, the pseudonym for the husband-and-wife writing team of William and Audrey Roos, were … Continue reading Connie & Steve Barton
Tag: New York City
Desmond Shannon
Created by M.V. Heberden Pseudonyms include Charles L. Leonard (1906-65) DESMOND SHANNON is supposedly the "highest paid private eye in New York City." He appears in a fast-paced, tough series of novels from the forties and fifties written, perhaps surprisingly for the time, by a woman: Mary Violet Heberden (although she initially kept her gender … Continue reading Desmond Shannon
Cate Harlow
Created by Kristen Houghton Affable jeans-and-sneakers-clad CATE HARLOW is a New York City P.I. with more than a few irons in the fire. Her best friend, Melissa, is a hooker; she's bouncing back and forth between two men (her ex-husband Will, a former NYPD detective, and Giles, a hunky ME who works for the city), … Continue reading Cate Harlow
Ginny Dugan
Created by Olesya Lyuzna It's the Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, and even if Prohibition kicked in back in 1920, New York City is still bopping. Nightclubs, gambling joints, showgirls, speakeasies... And wandering through it all are private eyes GINNY DUGAN and her partner, Jack Crawford. Jack is hunky but troubled, and gal-about-town Ginny, formerly … Continue reading Ginny Dugan
Shannon (The D.A.’s Man)
Based on a book by by James B. Horan and Harold Danforth The D.A.'s Man was a pretty much forgotten Jack Webb television production from back in the late fifties, relating the adventures of SHANNON, a tough private eye (or possibly ex-private eye, according to some other sources, or even not a private eye at … Continue reading Shannon (The D.A.’s Man)
Tom Welles (8MM)
Created by Andrew Kevin Walker Everyone take a shower. Happily-married, and boasting a new-born daughter, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania surveillance expert and private eye TOM WELLES is hired by a wealthy widow to track down the origins of a reel of 8mm film that seems to depict the murder of a young girl. Tom's soon in way … Continue reading Tom Welles (8MM)
Errol Black
Created by Simon Swift It's the thirties (and the forties and the fifties), and New York City gumshoe ERROL BLACK talks the talk and walks the expected walk, in a proposed trilogy of "indie" books by Simon Swift. I say "proposed," because the third book, the "much anticipated" The Gold Gate Goodbye, never surfaced, although … Continue reading Errol Black
Mark St. John
Created by Bob Reiss Well, this Reiss guy has chutzpah, anyway. He's all over the place in the convoluted but engaging The Impossible Detective (2026), trying to link MARK ST. JOHN, his celebrity NYC private eye and supposedly a master of impossible mysteries, to both the past (he's the grandson of legendary sleuth The Falcon, lives … Continue reading Mark St. John
Henry Archer (The Other/Half)
Created by Jim McCann and Joe Eisma Released on National Coming Out Day in March 2026 was The Other/Half, a rom-com/mystery mini-series featuring rough-and-tumble NYC private eye and backstreets rambler (he needs a shave and wears a rumpled trench coat) HENRY ARCHER and his fiancée Ethan Herbst, a suave, sophisticated man-about-town socialite currently on the … Continue reading Henry Archer (The Other/Half)
Kaiser Lupowitz
Created by Woody Allen Pseudonym of Allen Stewart Konigsberg (1935--) I was sitting in my office, cleaning the debris out of my thirty-eight and wondering where my next case was coming from... KAISER LUPOWITZ is the gumshoe in a couple of Woody Allen's apparently affectionate parodies/tributes of/to the hardboiled private eye tale. Yes, that Woody … Continue reading Kaiser Lupowitz