John Kenneth Galbraith Jantarro
Created by Simon Ritchie

Toronto insurance investigator JOHN KENNETH GALBRATH JANTARRO (talk about your four-barrelled names!) lost his left hand and part of his arm to a pair of sadistic prison guards and an incompetent prison doctor. Upon his release from prison, he sued everything that moved, and won a lot of money. He makes no bones about it, and in fact employs a lawyer almost full time to make sure he gets all he's entitled to. But he'd rather work for a living. And he does, as a self-employed private eye with a very good reputation in Toronto. In his fierce determination and harsh pride not to be held back, and is reminiscent of Michael Collins' Dan Fortune and Dick Francis' Sid Halley.

Jantarro appeared in two excellent books written by Simon Ritchie, the pen name for a law professor .

NOVELS

• The Hollow Woman (1986)
• Work for a Dead Man (1989)