Joe Serpe and Bob Healy
Created by Tony Spinosa (Pseudonym of Reed Farrel Coleman)

The oilmen cometh...

Ex-NYPD detective JOE SERPE teams up with his retired internal affairs nemesis, BOB HEALY and goes into business. Or more precisely, a variety of businesses: an aptly named bar (The Odd Couple), a small long Island heating oil delivery company, and a private detective agency. Naturally, it's the PI firm that's struggling.

Serpe and Healy's creator is actually Reed Farrel Coleman, best known as the Shamus-winning creator of P.I. Moe Prager (who likewise moonlights). He's also the author of three novels featuring unorthodox investigator Dylan Klein.

NOVELS

• Hose Monkey (2006) ..Buy this book
• Gun Bunnies (2007) ..Buy this book
• The Fourth Victim (2008) ..Buy this book

RELATED LINKS

• Hard-Boiled Poet: The Reed Farrel Coleman Interview
  Jack Bludis grills Coleman on behalf of The Thrilling Detective Web Site.

Report respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.