The Defective Detectives

Steve Silk
Created by James Brendan O'Sullivan

STEVE SILK is a former boxer turned un-licensed P.I. Quick with a wisecrack and quicker with his fists, he dresses well and chases women with vigor. He's a big-hearted guy, but there's plenty of room for it in his chest since he only has one lung! The dialogue is a little rough but the plots are good and there's plenty of action to move things along.

According to the back cover blurb of I Die Possessed, Steve is a very private eye with "only three weak points: blondes, brunettes and red heads." Still, somehow, Steve found the time to appear in sixteen adventures, and even to travel in a few cases, most notably to Ireland and the States.

More popular in the U.K than in the U.S., many of the books were published in the U.K. only.

NOVELS

• Death Came Late (1945)
• The Death Card (1945)
• Casket of Death (1946)
• Death on Ice (1946)
• Death Stalks The Stadium (1946)
• I Die Possessed (1953)
• Nerve Beat (1953)
• Don't Hang Me Too High (1954)
• Someone Walked Over My Grave (1954)
• The Stuffed Man (1955)
• The Long Spoon (1956)
• Choke Chain (1958)
• Raid (1958)
• Gate Fever (1959)
• Backlash (1960)
• Make My Coffin Big (1964)

Report respectfully submitted by Dale Stoyer.