Ken Sligo
Created by Jack Bludis

KEN SLIGO is a returned vet from the war in Europe, trying to scratch out a living as a rookie private eye, while he waits to become a cop (he's on the waiting list). The P.I. life may not be exactly Sligo's dream gig, but it's still better than working for his brother the butcher.

It's a suitably rundown, delightfully seedy (and colourfully-drawn) area of Charm City that Sligo calls his own, full of strip joints, bars, and establisdhments that offer "bail bonds, tatoos, rubber goods and hot dogs." And it does this Montreal boy good to see Lilli St. Cyr make a brief cameo in Sligo's first recorded case, "New Guy on the Block," the kick-off story in the 2001 PWA anthology, Mystery Street.

Ken has since returned, in "Blondes, Blondes, Blondes!," right on this site.

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 Los Angeles 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. He also writes about 1950s Hollywood eye Brian Kane.

SHORT STORIES

• "New Guy on the Block" (2001, Mystery Street)
• "Blondes, Blondes, Blondes!" (Winter 2006, Thrilling Detective Web Site)

Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.