Barney Calhoun
Created by Richard Deming (pseuds. Max Franklin, Emily Moor)
(1915-1983)

Barney Calhoun is six-foot-two and 210 pounds of ex-cop turned P.I. out of Buffalo, New York, who is hired by a woman who has killed her husband. She wants Calhoun to get rid of the body, in the vaguely-Jim Thompsonish one-shot Hit and Run (1964). fortunately, Barney may have come up with a way to commit the perfect crime.

Author Richard Deming is also the creator of another eye, Manville Moon. He wrote several novels under the house pseudonym of Ellery Queen, and also wrote for television, as well as novelizing several episodes of such crime shows as Dragnet, Mod Squad, Charlie's Angels, Vega$ and Starsky and Hutch, often under the penname of Max Franklin.

NOVELS

• Hit and Run (1964)