Created by W.T. Ballard (Willis Todhunter Ballard)Pseudonyms include P. D. Ballard, Harrison Hunt, Neil MacNeil, John Shepherd(1903-80) “Just a friendly town... When the knife falls, everyone helps you down into the gutter.”-- Lennox ponders Hollywwood in "A Little Different" Here's another iconic private eye who's officially not a private eye, yet does pretty much everything … Continue reading Bill Lennox
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Tony Costaine & Bert McCall
Created by Neil MacNeilPseudonym of W.T. Ballard (Willis Todhunter Ballard)Other pseudonyms include P. D. Ballard, Harrison Hunt, John Shepherd(1903-80) TONY COSTAINE and BERT McCALL were these two high-flying, happy-go-lucky high-priced eyes who made like a couple of swinging dicks in the Rat Pack era of the late fifties/early sixties. But never let it be said … Continue reading Tony Costaine & Bert McCall
Red Drake
Created by W.T. Ballard (Willis Todhunter Ballard) Pseudonyms include P. D. Ballard, Harrison Hunt, Neil MacNeil, John Shepherd (1903-80) With Black Mask editor Cap Shaw buying every Bill Lennox story W.T. Ballard submitted, Shaw's boss, Phil Cody, urged him to lay off Lennox for a while. So Shaw suggested Ballard cook up another series character. … Continue reading Red Drake
Sam Boyd
Created by W.T. Ballard (Willis Todhunter Ballard) Pseudonyms include P. D. Ballard, Harrison Hunt, Neil MacNeil, John Shepherd (1903-80) The blurb for "Murder's Mandate," from the table of contents for the September 1945 issue of Thrilling Detective (no relation) pretty much says it all: "Private Sleuth Sam Boyd plays for high stakes in a Western … Continue reading Sam Boyd
Mark Foran
Created by W.T. Ballard (Willis Todhunter Ballard) Pseudonyms include P. D. Ballard, Harrison Hunt, Neil MacNeil, John Shepherd (1903-80) "Mark Foran, Newest of the Private Ops--out-Harpers Harper." -- the front cover blurb for the 1967 edition Los Angeles gumshoe MARK FORAN, plagued as he is with an "oversize bump of curiousity" appeared in only one … Continue reading Mark Foran
Little Jack Horner
Created by Jerome Severs Perry Pseud. of Robert Leslie Bellem (1902-1968) “I’m not a detective, I’m a beef blower. A beef blower is a man who blows down beefs, or, in plain language, quells trouble. That’s my job. I quell trouble for Lew Quarrie.” Red-headed JOHN J. "LITTLE JACK" HORNER was yet another Tinseltown shamus … Continue reading Little Jack Horner
Joe Shannon (Shannon)
Created by... In the 1961–62 season, George Nader appeared as stand-up insurance investigator JOE SHANNON in the syndicated crime drama Shannon. Joe worked for the Los Angeles branch of the Transport Bonding and Surety Company, which had its headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Joe's job was to protect the company's clients (apparently mostly trucking companies) from hijacking, … Continue reading Joe Shannon (Shannon)
Jim Anthony
Created by John Grange House pseudonym, includes Victor Rousseau, Robert Leslie Bellem, W.T. Ballard & possibly others "As a manhunter Jim Anthony had no equals; his fame as an amateur scientific criminologist was world-wide. Detection was his hobby, his avocation; countless were the mysteries he had solved, the murderers he had brought to justice after the police … Continue reading Jim Anthony