Benoit Blanc created by Rian Johnson The Muppets created by Jim Henson “I have arrived to this street of sesame, on a sunny day turned cloudy.' For those of you who couldn't wait for Wake Up Dead Man, the long-anticipated Knives Out sequel featuring Rian Johnson's eccentric detective Benoit Blanc, the good folks at Sesame … Continue reading Beignet Blanc (Forks Out)
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Malachi Manatee
Created by William R. Cox Pseudonyms include William J. O’Sullivan, Joel Reeve, David Crewe, John M. Easterly, William Hartley, Lance Kermit, John Parkhill, Mat Rand, Ray P. Shotwell, Roger G. Spellman, Daniel Winters & Willard d’Arcy (1901-1988) MALACHI MANATEE came back from the war with a brand new plan. Wounded in action fighting the Japanese … Continue reading Malachi Manatee
Seekay
Created by Paul ErnstPseudonyms included Frederick Carr, Ernest Jason Fredericks, Kenneth Robeson, Robert Wallace, Chris Brand, George Alden Edson, George Edson, Emerson Graves, Paul Frederick Stern(1899-1985) "I am going to turn on the light now. Do not be alarmed at my face." Arguably the first of the "defective detectives," Paul Ernst's SEEKAY was a tall, … Continue reading Seekay
Needle Mike (aka Ken McNally)
Created by William E. Barrett (1900-1986) I wonder if Jeff Johnson, creator of P.I/tatoo artist Darby Holland, knows about NEEDLE MIKE, William E. Barrett's crime-solving tattoo artist from the pulps? Posing as a seedy, disreputable alcoholic owner (complete with gold tooth and bum leg) of a grimy tattoo parlor on South Broadway in the equally … Continue reading Needle Mike (aka Ken McNally)
R.J. Brooks
Created by Stephen Humphrey Bogart (1949--) "Sam Spade, my ass." R.J. BROOKS is a Big Apple "matrimonial detective" (ie: a private eye who specializes in catching wayward spouses) and the son of a couple of famous movie stars. Professionally, he's got a solid rep for honesty and integrity, even if he doesn't always approve of … Continue reading R.J. Brooks
Humphrey Bogart (Rest in Pieces)
Fictionalized by John Stanley & Kenn Davis "I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true." — Humphrey Bogart Okay, Bogart's not a private eye. Or a writer of private eye stories. He was just an actor, for cryin' out loud! But has anyone ever so epitomized the private eye … Continue reading Humphrey Bogart (Rest in Pieces)
Ace Fedora
Created by Chris Gumprich and Jason Rainey Just the thing for all you comic-loving fedora fetishists out there! ACE FEDORA is the alter ego of a daydreaming numbers cruncher caught up in a tangled web of lies, office intrigue and his own warped imagination, in Ace Fedora, Private Eye, a witty little 2004 mini-comic. He's … Continue reading Ace Fedora
Steve Black
Created by Tedd Steele Other pseudonyms include Ted Stelle, T.A. Steele, Theodore Steele, David Benedict, Jack Benedict, David Forrest, Gerald Laing, Jack Romaine (1922-??) Mothers, don't let your sons grow up to be private dicks. The hours are awful and so few require their services. Consider Artists Models and Murder (1956) a cautionary tale. It's … Continue reading Steve Black
Rose Gallagher
Created by Erin Lindsey If Disney had done The X-Files, it may have gone something like this... Plucky, sassy housemaid ROSE GALLAGHER, an Irish girl from rough and tumble Five Points in New York City is content sweeping the floors and performing other household chores in a swank Fifth Avenue brownstone, and she'd probably still … Continue reading Rose Gallagher
Spade Hearns
Created by James Ellroy(1948--) It's 1942 in post-Pearl Harbor Los Angeles, the blackout's on and the "Jap scare" is going full-tilt, and SPADE HEARNS is a laudanum-tippling P.I. wondering where the lights went, in the short story "Torch Number" by James Ellroy. Hard up for paying cases, the former LAPD detective finds himself working for … Continue reading Spade Hearns