Created by Himan Brown (1910-2010) You think of private eyes, you probably picture some rough, tough American dude. Maybe not the most sophisticated guy, but no dummy, either? You think Bogie or Mitchum, maybe Garner or Dick Powell. You probably don't think Rex Harrison, the charming, erudite and slightly stuffy British film actor best known … Continue reading Rex Saunders (The Private Files of Rex Saunders)
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Wildclown
Created by G. Wells Taylor Who is this bozo? WILDCLOWN sure ain't your granddad's private eye. Sure, he's suitably tough, suitably cynical, and suitably partial to a good swig of Canadian Club now and then. aren't they all? But this dude lives and works in Greasetown, a hellhole where, following "The Change," the living never … Continue reading Wildclown
Lindsay Fox & Nathan Fisher (The Fox & Fisher Detective Agency)
Created by C.J. Carmichael This romance series (part of Harlequin's Super Romance line) revolves around the Manhattan-based Fox & Fisher Detective Agency, and the never-ending search for love among its various employees, up to and including its receptionist. The agency was founded by former NYPD detective LINDSAY FOX after she left the department, largely due … Continue reading Lindsay Fox & Nathan Fisher (The Fox & Fisher Detective Agency)
Lovers in a Dangerous Time
P.I. Romance Novels Yeah, I know... But everyone's looking for love, right? Like it or not, the private eye, usually a hunky but aloof male or an ambitious woman trying to claw her way up in a world full of men, figures prominently in romance novels, particularly romantic suspense novels. Really, considering the cross-genre permutations … Continue reading Lovers in a Dangerous Time
Antonio Mercer (You Have Killed Me)
Created by Jamie S. Rich and Joëlle Jones You Have Killed Me by writer Jamie S. Rich and artist Joëlle Jones is a 1930s noir wet dream, played out in a graphic novel. Steeped in the shadowy world of frenetic jazz clubs, smoky back-room poker games, mobsters, crooked cops, a femme fatale or two, and … Continue reading Antonio Mercer (You Have Killed Me)
Tony Crow
Created by Howard Schwartz A Murder of Crows? Thirty-something Minneapolis private detective TONY CROW used to be a Marine and a cop, but he'd like to think his troubled and occasionally fucked-up past is all behind him — it's a past that also includes an ex-wife and a kid he never sees, and being shot … Continue reading Tony Crow
Paula Savard
Created by Susan Calder Fifty-something and divorced, Calgary, Alberta's PAULA SAVARD feels like she's just pinning her wheels — her love light is flickering and almost out, her job has grown tedious and predictable, and her two daughters have grown and gone. And then an old friend is shot and killed in the seasonally titled … Continue reading Paula Savard
Eddie Dancer
Created by Mike Harrison Canada's Cowtown finally got its own hard-boiled eye. At first glance, EDDIE DANCER is just your typical tough-guy, wise-ass private eye. What he has going for him is that Calgary, Alberta is his home turf — a decidedly fresh setting for a P.I. series (the only other Calgary eye at the … Continue reading Eddie Dancer
Pete Sawyer
Created by Marvin H. Albert Pseudonyms include Mike Barone, J.D. Christilain, Al Conroy, Albert Conroy, Ian MacAlister, Nick Quarry, Anthony Rome (1924-96) PIERRE-ANGE "PETE" SAWYER, is an American ex-pat living and working on the French Riviera as a hard-boiled private eye. He first appeared in the 1978 hardcover The Dark Goddess, working as a well-connected … Continue reading Pete Sawyer
Duca Lamberti
Created by Giorgio Scerbanenco (1911-69) In my opinion, the only one worth mentioning amongst the Italian hard-boiled authors is a Ukrainian-born writer Giorgo Scerbanenco. There's a reason many consider him "the Father of Italian noir." His main character, DUCA LAMBERTI isn't actually a private eye, at least officially, but a disgraced former doctor from Milan … Continue reading Duca Lamberti