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)
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“The Wrong Man to Cross”(Part Two)
.By Duane Swierczynski A John MacNeil Novella Winter 2006 Chuck Underhill put the time of the break-in between 2 and 4 p.m. Jonesy told him she left just before 2, and didn't return home until after a dinner of Chinese food at Kum Lin's with her mother. By that time, Chuck was already there, and he'd … Continue reading “The Wrong Man to Cross”(Part Two)
“The Wrong Man to Cross”(Part One)
.By Duane Swierczynski A John MacNeil Novella Winter 2006 "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.” — Ezekiel 25:17 By the end of move-in day, I needed only two things. A six-pack of Yuengling. And to get the hell out … Continue reading “The Wrong Man to Cross”(Part One)
Mitch Henessey (The Long Kiss Goodnight)
Created by Shane Black "This ain't no ham on rye, pal." — Mitch comes to the rescue Despite the Chandleresque title, the film The Long Kiss Goodnight owes at least as much to La Femme Nikita as it does to the trench coat and fedora shenanigans of the gumshoe genre. Heck, even the P.I. in … Continue reading Mitch Henessey (The Long Kiss Goodnight)
Guila Falcone & Frank Driscoll
Created by Alice Loweecy Okay, so this ex-nun and a private dick walk into a bar... Ooops, sorry, that's actually just one person: GUILA FALCONE, who left the convent at the age of 29, taking a string of small jobs before landing a gig as an assistant at Pittsburgh's Driscoll Investigations. She's still getting used … Continue reading Guila Falcone & Frank Driscoll
Eddie Cero & Sal Giambroni
Created by David Fulmer Eddie rubbed his knuckles. “You better get him out of here.” -- from The Blue Door A good deed sucker punches Philly welterweight EDDIE CERO's life. There he is, just minding his own, taking a short cut through an alley on a fine Philly night in 1962, when he stumbles upon … Continue reading Eddie Cero & Sal Giambroni
Mike Olshansky (Hack)
Created by David Koepp "Could we just leave my soul out of this... for once?" -- Mike warns Grizz in "Domestic Disturbance" Get the angst-meter a-running... In Hack, possibly the most downbeat new drama of the Fall 2002 TV season, David Morse starred as MIKE OLSHANSKY, a disgraced ex-cop from Philadelphia ("I took a bullet … Continue reading Mike Olshansky (Hack)
Yuri Nevsky
Created by Dimitri Gat Pseudonyms include C.K. Cambray (1936--) So, back in 1982, Avon published a paperback original called Nevsky's Return, by some guy called Dimitri Gat. It was all about Russian-American "information specialist" YURI NEVSKY (he doesn't like there term "private eye"), with offices at 138 Moorland Street in Pittsburgh. Gat was an intriguing … Continue reading Yuri Nevsky
Casey Carmichael
Created by John Nicholas Datesh Solitaire-playing, middle-aged Pittsburgh P.I. CASEY CARMICHAEL has an office in the Haller Building from which he scrapes by, and is described as "big, tough and cheap" in Baker and Nietzel's One Hundred and One Knights. Gee, makes him sound like a steak. But I'm not sure I'd trust him. His … Continue reading Casey Carmichael
Pennsylvania Six-Five Thousand!
The Eyes of the Keystone State Pittsburgh Casey Carmichael by John Nicholas Datesh Yuri Nevsky by Dimitri Gat All in All, I'd Rather Be in Philadlphia Mike Dime by Barry Fantoni Dave Garrett by Neil Albert Lou Klein by Keith Gilman Mike Olshansky by David Koepp (Hack) Carney Wilde by Bart Spicer Preliminary list respectfully … Continue reading Pennsylvania Six-Five Thousand!