Created by George Harmon Coxe (1901-84) 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
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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
Dora Conti
Created by Lawrence Sanders (1920-98) DORA CONTI's a likable, methodical (and happily married) insurance investigator working out of Hartford, Conneticutt, with a soft spot for food and flirtation, who gets more than she bargained for in Lawrence Sander's The Seventh Commandment (1991) when she's dispatched to Manhattan to investigate a $3 million death claim. following … Continue reading Dora Conti
Joshua Bigg
Created by Lawrence Sanders (1920-98) "My name is Joshua Bigg: a joke life played on me, as I am quite small. Five feet, three and three-eighths inches, to be precise. In a world of giants, those eighths are precious to a midget." I'm not sure if we're allowed to use "midget" anymore, but JOSHUA BIGG … Continue reading Joshua Bigg
Timothy Cone
Created by Lawrence Sanders (1920-98) "Listen, I just don't like people who think they own the world." — Timothy Cone, in Timothy's Game TIMOTHY CONE's a big, tall, scrawny kinda guy, eccentric and obsessive as all get out; a loner with stooped shoulders, a shambling gait, and big ears, prowling the boardrooms and the bedrooms … Continue reading Timothy Cone
Wolf Lannihan
Created by Lawrence Sanders (1920-98) "She was a little thing but well-machined with everything in abundance and in the right place" "She was all over me like a wet sheet" Before he struck it big with The Anderson Tapes, Lawrence Sanders was just another ink-stained wretch, pumping out blood-and-cum-soaked pulp for Swank Magazine, which may … Continue reading Wolf Lannihan
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Big Apple Eyes Mike Hammer by Mickey Spillane Matt Scudder by Lawrence Block Mary Lou "Dunk" Bateson by Lawrence Sanders Joshua Bigg by Lawrence Sanders R.J. Brooks by Stephen Bogart Burke by Andrew Vachss Curt Cannon by Curt Cannon (The Bowery) Pete Chambers by Henry Kane Timothy Cone by Lawrence Sanders Timothy Dane by William … Continue reading Start Spreading the News…
Andy & Sue MacVeigh
Created by Sue MacVeigh Pseudonym of Elizabeth Custer Nearing (1898-1960) "Last October Andy... solved the murder of Winthrop Mason in Slocum, New York, almost single-handed. Because I'm Andy's wife and was in on the kill I got a small slice of the credit." — Sue in Grand Central Murder What hath Nick and Nora … Continue reading Andy & Sue MacVeigh