Created by Lee Goldberg Ex-cop turned insurance investigator EDISON BIXBY is brilliant. Just ask anyone. Hell, just ask him. He's rich and handsome; a certified genius when it comes to cracking seemingly impossible crimes. He's also possibly just plain certifiable, obsessed with a crackpot theory (or is it?) about environmental design and how it affects … Continue reading Edison Bixby & Wally Nash
Tag: You Better Get Some Insurance
Dora Conti
Created by Lawrence Sanders (1920-98) DORA CONTI's a likable, methodical (and happily married) insurance investigator working out of Hartford, Conneticutt, with a soft spot for food and flirtation, who gets more than she bargained for in Lawrence Sander's The Seventh Commandment (1991) when she's dispatched to Manhattan to investigate a $3 million death claim. following … Continue reading Dora Conti
Wolf Lannihan
Created by Lawrence Sanders (1920-98) "She was a little thing but well-machined with everything in abundance and in the right place" "She was all over me like a wet sheet" Before he struck it big with The Anderson Tapes, Lawrence Sanders was just another ink-stained wretch, pumping out blood-and-cum-soaked pulp for Swank Magazine, which may … Continue reading Wolf Lannihan
You Better Get Some Insurance, Baby
You're in Good Hands With These Eyes The Acme Indemnity Op Jan Dana's cynical, hard-boiled, nameless insurance op from the pulps. Any resemblance between this character and any other ficticious character by anyone named Hammett is strictly a coincidence. Thomas Banacek The smuggest dick this side of Spenser, urbane, suave, cocky Boston-based Polish/American freelance insurance … Continue reading You Better Get Some Insurance, Baby
Brian Brett
Created by Christopher Monig Pseudonym of Kendall Foster Crossen Other pseudonyms include Bennett Barlay, M. E. Chaber, Richard Foster & Clay Richards| (1910-81) You want pulp? New York-based insurance claims adjuster BRIAN BRETT narrated his own adventures in four slightly tongue-in-cheek novels by Christopher Monig in the fifties, and was very much a man of … Continue reading Brian Brett
C.W. Briggs (The Curse of the Jade Scorpion)
Created by Woody Allen "You're a nerdy little meglamaniac who's frightened by women." — Fritz puts the Woodster in his place.Woody Allen wrote, directed and starred in The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, a banter-heavy crime farce/romantic comedy set in 1940's Manhattan (where else?), that revolves around hypnotism, a jewel heist and Allen himself as … Continue reading C.W. Briggs (The Curse of the Jade Scorpion)