Created by Rachel Howzell Hall When we first meet her in her impressive, angry debut, And Now She's Gone (2020), rookie gumshoe GRAYSON SYKES is pushing forty, but she's mostly in a good place. Or at least that's what she keeps telling herself. It seems she has the obligatory troubled past, plus a double-barrel secret in … Continue reading Grayson Sykes
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Johnny Stevens
Created by Ben Kerr Pseudonym of William Ard (1922-60) Another private eye from William Ard, another private eye well worth investigating. Perpetually broke JOHNNY STEVENS is a New York op for the Flannagan Detective Agency, run by gruff "mick" Flannagan, his own self. A long-time favourite of mine, Brooklyn-born Ard was one of the unjustly … Continue reading Johnny Stevens
Gulliver Dowd
Created by Reed Farrel Coleman (1956--) A handsome face on a twisted deformed body is New York private eye GULLIVER DOWD's lot in life. He's so short he fills up "only the bottom half a mirror," his arms and legs are too short for his squat body, his hands too big for his arms, his … Continue reading Gulliver Dowd