Brian Kane
Created by Jack Bludis

BRIAN KANE is a Hollywood eye, with a weakness for Camels and young starlets. He works the dirty side of the mean streets of Tinsel Town in the early fifties, peeping in windows, snapping pictures and generally trying to survive. Although Brian's beat is supposedly the unglamourous side of town, where "desparate glamour girls are a dime a dozen (and) where the wannabe's wait for fame and fortune behind dreary lunch counters and hat-check lines," he sure does rub up against plenty of the rich and powerful. His client in his first novel-length case, The Big Switch, for example, is the wife of a "mega-star," who suspects him of cheating. And in the second novel, The Deal Killers, Kane and his smart hookergirlfriend, Kitty, take on Hungarian mobsters and, yes, more movie stars. Or in this case, B-actors who look amazingly like real movie stars.

Jack Bludis is a Hunt Valley, Maryland writer who has sold over 400 short stories and forty novels under a slew of pen names and has been nominated for both the Anthony and the Shamus awards. Under his own name he writes about forties Baltimore eye Ken Sligo. The latest novel to bear his name is Shadow of the Dahlia which features private eye Rick Page and he is currently at work on a police procedural set in a small Maryland city west of Baltimore to go along with what he calls his various other "potboilers" -- none of which bear his name.

R.I.Y.L.

• Toby Peters, Jack Levine, Scott Elliott

UNDER OATH

• "This is an amiably talky book... an entertaining and sexy take on the classic P.I. story."
  (Lev Raphael, The Detroit Free Press)

NOVEL

• The Big Switch (2001) ..Buy this book
• The Deal Killer (2002) ..Buy this book

Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.