Created by Erin Lindsey If Disney had done The X-Files, it may have gone something like this... Plucky, sassy housemaid ROSE GALLAGHER, an Irish girl from rough and tumble Five Points in New York City is content sweeping the floors and performing other household chores in a swank Fifth Avenue brownstone, and she'd probably still … Continue reading Rose Gallagher
Tag: New York City
Joe Venice
Created by Jiro Kimura JOE VENICE is a New York City private eye with an office across the street from City Hall where, I guess, he can keep an eye on the mayor. Just an ordinary "Joe," except that his mother was Japanese. He was born at an American military base in Sakai, just outside … Continue reading Joe Venice
Rip-Off Red
Created by Kathy Acker (1948 – 97) "Narratives are purely for shit. Here's the information go fuck yourself." — Rip-Off Red Can you say "post-modern"? I knew you could... Rip-Off Red, Girl Detective is a  (discovered and published post-humously) from early in the career of legendary kamikaze slice-and-dice author Kathy Acker, supposedly full of the … Continue reading Rip-Off Red
Terrance McGowan
Created by Roger Torrey Pseudonyms include Sam Drake, Samuel Drake, John Ryan, R.D. Torrey (1901-46) Another one-shot private eye from the pen of pulpster Roger Torrey, TERRANCE McGOWAN first popped up in the longish novella "Please Locate Murder"Â in the February 1944 issue of Super-Detective. It was the cover story, in fact. Formerly a cop, McGowan … Continue reading Terrance McGowan
Lauren Laurano
Created by Sandra Scoppettone Surrounded by other gay couples and friends, Big Apple eye LAUREN LAURANO, formerly of the CIA, and her main squeeze, Kip, a psychotherapist, live together in Greenwich Village. This has just gotta be the first well-adjusted lesbian couples in detective fiction published by a mainstream press, as opposed to one of … Continue reading Lauren Laurano
Fortune Fanelli
Created by Jack Early Pseudonym of Sandra Scoppettone Big Apple eye FORTUNE FANELLI has lived in his beloved Soho for years, long before it was invaded by the trendies and the yuppies. The boutiques and oh-so-trendy bistros and cafes were bad enough, but now it looks like a serial killer's also moved into the neighbourhood, … Continue reading Fortune Fanelli
Sam Crombie
Created by George Harmon Coxe (1901-84) Â New York City private eye SAM CROMBIE is a man of "considerable bulk", fiftyish and often sports a panama hat. He heads The Crombie Agency, situated "on the fourth floor of a non-descript office building on Seventh Avenue in the forties" which gives "no clue to the type … Continue reading Sam Crombie
Sonny Spoon
Created by Michael Daly & Dinah Prince, and Stephen J. Cannell & Randall Wallace "He's a scam, he's a sham, he's a flim-flam man." — NBC trailer for the show "Fashion plate. Con artist. Public nuisance. Private eye." — tagline from a print ad Television's affable, street-smart, hip young Black private eye SONNY SPOON was … Continue reading Sonny Spoon
Samuel Todd
Created by Lawrence Sanders (1920-98) "The upper echelons of scientific research are as snaky a pit. The competition for private and federal funding is ruthless. Research scientists rush to publication, sometimes on the strength of palsied evidence. There’s no substitute for being first. Either you’re a discoverer, and your name goes into textbooks, or you’re … Continue reading Samuel Todd
Mary Lou “Dunk” Bateson
Created by Lawrence Sanders (1920-98) Nope. Not a private eye at all, though she sure ends up making like one, trying to clear her name, six-foot two MARY LOU "DUNK" BATESON is a NYC rare coin specialist stuck in a jam. She's been accused of swiping the valuable Greek coin she's been hired to appraise … Continue reading Mary Lou “Dunk” Bateson