Created by Morgan Shy Pseudonym of Gordon Brown Flag down some Tartan Noir, lads! Thirty years a Glasgow constable, BLAKE GLOVER has retired and returned to his hometown of Fraserburgh on the north-east coast of Scotland with his tail between his legs — dour, disgraced and not at all sure where his life is heading, … Continue reading Blake Glover
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Shona Sandison
Created by Philip Miller "The man's a fuckwit" — Shona on a colleague in The Goldenacre Is it all a just a lament for the “the way it used to be”? Or is it a brutal running obituary for journalism as we once know it? Either way, after over twenty years in the journalism trenches, … Continue reading Shona Sandison
Daniel Pike (The View from Daniel Pike)
Created by Edward Boyd (1916-89) Forget Scotland the Brave -- this is Scotland the Hard... DANIEL PIKE is a Glasgow-based private investigator and debt collector who was featured in a fondly remembered but short-lived Scottish television series in the early 70's. He's a hard man who decorates his office with pictures of riots, violence and … Continue reading Daniel Pike (The View from Daniel Pike)
Jack Bone
Created by Iain Blair Pseudonyms include Emma Blair (1942-2011) Glasgow's own JACK BONE is a hard-drinking, hard-smokin' kinda lad. He claims he isn't really a detective, that he just helps out folks if the price is right. As long as the job doesn't take him out of Scotland. As far as I know, he's only … Continue reading Jack Bone
Jasmine Sharp
Created by Christopher Brookmyre JASMINE SHARP is a young private eye, a former actress, who co-stars in a series of books by Scottish author Christopher Brookmyre, alongside Detective Superintendent Catherine MacLeod. In a refreshing change of pace, though, Jasmine and Catherine aren't BFFs--fact is, they barely tolerate each other. Catherine consider's Jasmine "a sneaky, duplicitous … Continue reading Jasmine Sharp
Scotland the Brave
Scottish Ayes Oz Blackstone by Matthew Reid, pseudonym of Quintin Jardine (Glasgow) Jack Bone by Iain Blair (Glasgow) Bogie (Francis F. Clunie) by Alan Grant and John Wagner (Glasgow) Sam Bryson by Russell McLean (Dundee) Lennox by Craig Russell (Glasgow) Blake Glover by Morgan Cry Nicky Mahoun by Clark Smith (Glasgow) J. McNee by Russell … Continue reading Scotland the Brave
Dorothy Skelf, Jenny Skelf & Hannah Skelf (The Skelfs)
Created by Doug Johnstone They are women--hear them roar. Tere have been some strange families in the Shamus Game over the years, from the duplicitous, fractious Spellmans of San Francisco and the loud, unruly British-Italian Lunghis to the enternally bickering father-son combo of the Doyles of Newfoundland, but THE SKELFS of Edinburgh, Scotland are in a class … Continue reading Dorothy Skelf, Jenny Skelf & Hannah Skelf (The Skelfs)
Sam Bryson
Created by Russel D. McLean Before Dundee gumshoe J. McNee took on his first case in The Good Son (2008), another Scots private investigator operated out of the offices at 1, Courthouse Square, Dundee. His name was SAM BRYSON, and he was crime writer Russel D. McLean’s first attempt to create a hardboiled detective in … Continue reading Sam Bryson
J. McNee
Created by Russel D. McLean "I've already shot a man this evening, so what's the difference now?" -- a practical man, that J. McNee is. A former Dundee cop, J. McNEE makes for a particularly moody private eye, all dour brooding and angst, pounding the streets of a well-rendered Dundee, Scotland. McNee quits the police force … Continue reading J. McNee
Sam Ireland
Created by Jay Stringer SAM IRELAND, no stranger to booze or cigarettes, is a private investigator who keeps the wolves from the door by doing a little part-time work as bike messenger, peddling her ass up and down the mean streets of Glasgow. She's trying to keep her elderly father's one-man detective agency, Ireland Investigations, … Continue reading Sam Ireland