Created by Roger Torrey Pseudonyms include Sam Drake, Samuel Drake, John Ryan, R.D. Torrey (1901-46) First published in 1938 (and reprinted by Dennis McMillan in 1988, and numerous times since), 42 Days For Murderwas the only novel by Black Mask regular Roger Torrey. It featured SHEAN CONNELL, who fits the classic mold of the hard-drinking, … Continue reading Shean Connell
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Cassie Gibson
Created by Floyd Mahannah (1911-76) In The Yellow Hearse (1950; aka "No Luck for a Lady"), redhead CASSIE GIBSON is just trying to keep her father's detective agency from falling apart when she stops to pick up a hitchhiker named Nap Lincoln. Later she realizes that there is a dead woman in the trunk of … Continue reading Cassie Gibson
Mortimer Angel
Created by Rob Leininger "In my personal opinion, and in the court of public opinion, IRS agents rank somewhere below that of politicians or prostitutes." -- Mort mulls over his previous occupation in Gumshoe Reno, Nevada's MORTIMER "MORT" ANGEL turned his back on sixteen years of soul-sucking drudgery as an IRS "field thug" for sixteen … Continue reading Mortimer Angel