Created by Emily St. John Mandel "Memory's a strange thing." "My name is Christopher Graydon. I'm a private investigator. I'd like to ask you a few questions." Montreal private eye CHRISTOPHER GRAYDON is but one of the people caught up in the wreckage of Lilia Albert's mysterious and peripatetic life in the dark, swirling Last … Continue reading Christopher Graydon (Last Night in Montreal)
Tag: Post-modern
David Dennings
Created by Ann Diamond "No Hair Too Thin, No Case Too Smal"l -- The Ariadine Agency's mottoIs that a styling comb in your pocket, or are you glad to see me? DAVID DENNINGS is a former hairdresser turned Montreal private eye who escapes the bone-chilling winter of his hometown by taking a case that eventually … Continue reading David Dennings
Gusse Oualzerre
Created by Daniel Da A delusional P.I. possibly from Montreal? Tabarnacle! Reinventing himself as a private eye, writer and Crohn's Disease sufferer GUSSE OUALZERRE is hired -- or allows himself to be hired) by a bizarre character who calls himself the General, to rescue his kidnapped daughter Mathilda. The case soon takes a weird, surreal turn, … Continue reading Gusse Oualzerre
The New York Trilogy
Daniel Quinn, Blue and Nameless (aka "Fanshawe's Friend") Created by Paul Auster (also writes as Paul Benjamin) " "It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not." -- the opening lines of City … Continue reading The New York Trilogy