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Jake Spanner
Created by L.A. Morse “When you get old, you either went soft or you got dry. Fortunately, I got dry.” — Jake, on aging.Cranky, pot-smoking 78-year old JAKE SPANNER is, as the title of his one recorded...
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Mike Ehrmantraut
Created by Peter Gould and Vince Gilligan “Shut the fuck up, and let me die in peace.” —Mike in the final season of Breaking Bad Yeah, yeah. I know. Neither AMC’s acclaimed Breaking Bad (2008-13), nor...
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The Big Reads
The Longest Private Eye Books Back in the good old days (whenever the hell that was) private eye yarns rarely took over 200 pages to tell. They were tight and right, punchy and potent, lean and mean...
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Paladin (Have Gun, Will Travel)
Created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow “A knight without armor in a savage land.” — from the theme song Perhaps the only genre more popular than private eyes in television’s early years was the western,...
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Verge (Subgenre)
Created by Matt Kindt What the hell? First time we meet this VERGE guy in the 2023 comic mini-0series, Subgenre, he’s some kinda hard-boiled private dick living in a not-too-distant high-tech future...
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Domingo
Created by Cindy Fazzi Filipino-American bounty hunter DOMINGO has a speciality: tracking down and capturing “illegals” (undocumented immigrants) who have committed criimes. Yeah, there’s an irony in...
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Lao She & Judge Dee Ren Jie
Created by S.J. Rozan & John Shen Yen Nee If you’re a hardcore mystery buff, you may be thinking: “Wait a minute! Wasn’t Judge Dee a fictional detective in a series of novels written from the...
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Chinese Eyes
Eyes of the Red Dragon Bob O’Hara by Gilbert Thomas (Hong Kong) Huo Sang by Cheng Xiaoqing Lao She & Judge Dee Ren Jie by by S.J. Rozan & John Shen Yen Nee Mei Wang by Diane Wei Liang...
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Banned!
The Naughty List The following hard-boiled and noir crime novels and/or authors(some featuring private eyes) have all been banned or restricted at one time or another. Not that they necessarily...
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Mitch Pistolwhip (Pistolwhip)
Created by Matt Kindt & Jason Hall “Mitch, if you’re going to be a good detective, you’ve got to be aware of your surroundings at all times. It’s really about observation. . . paying attention to...
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Howard the Duck (aka Howard Duckson)
Created by Steve Gerber & Val Mayerik (art) ‘Trapped In a World He Never Made!’ — the most-used tagline In the mythology of the Marvel Universe, HOWARD THE DUCK (real name Howard Dickson) looms...
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Nathan Phillips
Created by Nick O’Donohoe (1952–) Minneapolis gumshoe NATHAN PHILLIPS grew up in Minnesota and attended the State University, but he didn’t exactly set the world on fire. Eventually, after a series of...
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Flip, Flop & Fly
Pet-Owning Eyes Marlowe (Elliot Gould) on the hunt for Courry Brand Cat Food in Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye (1973).. CATS Okay, so Chandler was a cat man, and more than a few author photos feature...
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Valentijn Rixtus Bentinck (Heer en meester)
Created by Willem Zijlstra “Every day is Valentine’s Day!” When we first meet charming adventurer and sometime “voluntary” private detective VALENTIJN RIXTUS BENTINCK VALENTINE in the very first...
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Robert “Bob” James
Created by John Goldbach (1978–) “A lot remains unknown. Things change when you look at them.” — Robert clues us in… Here we go again… ROBERT “BOB” JAMES is a private eye. A loner with cynical streak...
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Rowena Grant
Created by Maurice Gagnon (1912-99) “That wily redhead, private investigator ROWENA GRANT, formerly of the MUC” is called back by her former employees, the Montreal police, to help them crack the case...
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Deirdre O’Hara
Created by Maurice Gagnon(1912-99) DEIRDRE O’HARA is a “vibrant young Montreal lawyer and highly-specialized marine insurance investigator” who appears in three novels (labelled as “The Deirdre O’Hara...
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David Spandau
Created by Daniel Depp “The Nice-Cannes airport is about as architecturally exciting as a VD clinic.” — from Babylon Nights Should a writer’s personal life be fair comment in a review? My first...
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J. P. McCoy
Created by Carol Ericson “That’s the way I like it–hot and wet.” –J.P. in his job interview Hoo-boy! You want it steamy? Harlequin‘s short-lived Intrigue Noir series (four books?) offered plenty of...
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Painter
Created by Melinda DiLorenzo “For just one night I needed to turn off the dread I felt every day. I needed to forget that despite every carefully planned escape, my past was waiting to tap me on the...
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