The Inklings Detective Agency

Created by John R. Kelly Pass. Okay, it was a brazen enough gimmick roping in Chandler, Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner, Raoul Whitfield  and various other torch carriers of the Shamus Game  as amateur or even professional sleuths, and the results were generally, hit or miss. Now Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, C.S. Lewis and J.R. Tolkien … Continue reading The Inklings Detective Agency

Zoë Boehm & Joe Silvermann

Created by Mick Herron "Oxford Town, Oxford Town, Guns and clubs followed (her) down..." Presenting the anti-Nick and Nora. Whereas Dashiell Hammett's fun-loving, cocktail-swilling detecting duo of Nick and Nora Charles were obviously in love and generally having — beyond a few troublesome homicides — a hell of a time, Mick Herron's pair of uneasily … Continue reading Zoë Boehm & Joe Silvermann