Created by Vernon Warren Pseudonym of George Warren Vernon Chapman (1925-96) Yet another of Vernon Warren's Yankee private eyes that he pumped out on behalf of Britain's Thriller Book Club, the 1961 novel Farewell by Death starred gumshoe BRAD STERLING, trying to recover seventy-five thousand smackers on behalf of a client who's been scammed. Although … Continue reading Brad Sterling
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Johnny Maquis
Created by Vernon Warren Pseudonym of George Warren Vernon Chapman (1925-96) "Private-eye" JOHNNY MAQUIS was apparently a one-shot shamus brought to you by the same Brit who did the Mark Brandon series. His lone appearance, Back-Lash, came out in 1960, and had Johnny investigating a five-year-old payroll robbery at the Fairfax General Engineering company (presumably … Continue reading Johnny Maquis
Mark Brandon
Created by Vernon Warren Pseudonym of George Warren Vernon Chapman (1925-96) "Sleep? Who wanted to sleep, it's for permanent when you're dead, and everyone dies...." -- Brandon turns positively Marlowesque in Runaround (1958) MARK BRANDON is a Chicago P.I. who appeared in a string of rather Chandleresque British hardcovers in the late fifties, one step … Continue reading Mark Brandon