Created by Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) Perhaps my favourite story (and the most recent) in Killer, Come Back to Me (2020), Hard Case Crime's spiffy 2020 collection of Ray Bradbury's crime and detective stories, was “Where Everything Ends.” Originally published in the 2010 omnibus collection of the author's Death Is a Lonely Business (1985), A Graveyard for … Continue reading Steve Michaels
Tag: Police Officer
Ishmael & David Odihambo
Created by Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ (1971--) “If you want the truth you must go to its source. The truth is in the past. Come to Nairobi.” -- the anonymous tip that sets things off in Nairobi Heat When we first meet ISHMAEL in Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ's 2011 bloody but eye-opening novel, Nairobi Heat, he's a police detective from Madison, Wisconsin, … Continue reading Ishmael & David Odihambo
Sergeant Beef
Created by Leo Bruce Pseudonym of Rupert Croft-Cooke (1903-79) It's difficult to figure out exactly how seriously we were supposed to take Golden Age detective SERGEANT WILLIAM BEEF. They both follow the formula of the era's crime fiction, and spoof it. Initially a village copper, a "big red-faced man of forty-eight or fifty, with a straggling … Continue reading Sergeant Beef
Doug D’Mello (The Indian Detective)
Created by Frank Spotnitz and Smita Bhide Okay, so DOUG D'MELLO is not a private eye. What he is is a recently demoted (to Constable Fourth Class) and suspended (for a month) member of the Toronto Metropolitan Police Force, following a spectacularly botched drug arrest. That went viral. Of course, that's not the real hook for … Continue reading Doug D’Mello (The Indian Detective)