Nashville Cats & Other Tennessee Private Eyes NASHVILLE Harry James Denton by Steven Womack (Nashville) Jared McKean by E. Michael Terrell (Nashville) Sid Chance by Chester D. Campbell (Nashville) Greg & Jill McKenzie by Chester D. Campbell (Nashville) Sonny Hunt by Jimmy Sangster and Ernest Frankel (Nashville) Bobby Cain & Harper McCoy by D.P. Lyle … Continue reading As Clear as Country Water…
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Jodie Colter (Caught in the Act)
Created by Billy Field and Cynthia Whitcomb Teleplay by Cynthia Whitcomb All grits, no grit. In Caught in the Act, a 2004 Lifetime TV movie, Lauren "Picket Fences" Holly plays JODIE COLTER, a feisty Nashville Tennessee housewife and mom who thinks Buck (played by Max Martini), her lout of a hubby, is stepping out on … Continue reading Jodie Colter (Caught in the Act)
Smokey Dalton
Created by Kris Nelscott Pseudonym of Kristine Kathryn Rusch Other pseudonyms include Kristine Grayson "You know, sometimes people should be allowed their secrets." --Smokey lays it out for a client Memphis, 1968. Black private eye, white client. And MLK's on the way... In the Edgar-nominated A Dangerous Road (2000), Memphis P.I. SMOKEY DALTON is hired … Continue reading Smokey Dalton
Jackson Gamble
Created by Gregory Stout It’s just another wandering daughter job, but somehow, newbie P.I. writer Stout makes it work in Lost Little Girl (2021). In his debut, down-scale Nashville gumshoe and day drinker JACKSON GAMBLE is hot on the trail of Gabrielle Hawkins, a missing 14-year-old. The detective figures she’s just another runaway, but her Bible-toting … Continue reading Jackson Gamble
Harry James Denton
Created by Steven Womack "That's 'Doctor Babe' to you." - Marsha advises Harry on the proper way to address her Former newspaperman HARRY JAMES DENTON is a Nashville cat who now makes his daily bread as a low-rent Nashville P.I., picking up whatever crumbs he can, be it repo work, workmen's comp fraud cases or other … Continue reading Harry James Denton
Sonny Hunt (Murder in Music City)
Created by Jimmy Sangster & Ernest Frankel Of course, when you think of Sonny Bono, the first thing that comes to mind is country music, right? Me neither. But in 1979, NBC tried to peddle a post-Cher Bono as Nashville private detective agency owner SONNY HUNT in the made-for-TV flick Murder in Music City. Bono … Continue reading Sonny Hunt (Murder in Music City)
Greg and Jill McKenzie
Created by Chester D. Campbell Church-going sixty-something GREG McKENZIE was simply a retired Air Force OSI investigator who, with the aid of his long-suffering wife, JILL, showed a penchant for solving crimes for two books. But in the third book of the series, Deadly Illusions (2005), the detecting duo turned pro, opening up McKenzie Investigations in a … Continue reading Greg and Jill McKenzie
Luther McGavock
Created by Merle Constiner (1902-79) LUTHER McGAVOCK was a Memphis-based private eye whose cases on behalf of agency boss Atherton Browne took him all over the rural American South. He appeared in some stories in Black Mask, all packed with peculiar goings-on, bizarre characters and oddball plots, often revolving around the most arcane bits of … Continue reading Luther McGavock
Bobby Cain & Harper McCoy
Created by D.P. Lyle Okay, so BOBBY CAIN and HARPER McCOY aren't your usual male/female duo of crimefighters -- they're brother and sister. More or less. "Adopted" and raised as siblings by a itinerant group of hustlers, scam artists, tramps and thieves that was at various times called "a family, a clan or a gypsy … Continue reading Bobby Cain & Harper McCoy
Auggie Velez-Colon
Created by Robert J. Randisi (1951 --) Guitar slinger AUGUSTO "AUGGIE" VELEZ-COLONÂ came back from Afghanistan with a brand-new plan: music. It's taken him a while, but after eight long years, he's starting to carve a niche into Nashville's hyper-competitive music scene as an in-demand session man. But just in case, he's still working his other … Continue reading Auggie Velez-Colon