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| Wit & Wisdom | History | Something Funny About the Eyes |
| The Pulps & Short Stories | Books | Writers & Writing |
| Film | Radio | Television | Other Media |
| Non-Fiction: Essays, Reviews and Other Stuff |

The Eyes

| The Name Game | Have We Got an Eye for You! |
| Lifestyles of the Neither Tarnished nor Afraid | The Working Life |
| Curiouser and Curiouser | Trivier and Trivier | The Work |
| Calling Out Around theWorld | Eyes On The Prize | The Hall of Fame |

| This Month's P.I. Poll | Previous P.I. Poll Results |

Wit & Wisdom

• What the hell is a private eye, anyway?
• And what the hell do you mean by "Hard-boiled," for that matter?
• And while we're at it, what the hell is "Noir"?
• According to the Gospel
• Lighten Up, Ray! Directives from Chairman Chandler
• I Hear Voices: Quotations from the Work of Raymond Chandler
• When You're Quoted, You'll Take It and Like It!
• Hello, I Must Be Going: Great Moments of Unconciousness
• Thoughts on the Future of the Genre
• On Writing Authors Say the Darnedest Things...
• Mistress Christa's Ten Rules to Write Noir
• Something Funny About The Eyes: Spoofs and Parodies
• What, me shamus? Parodies and satires of TV Eyes in MAD Magazine
• Props & Peeves! Private Eye Stories from A Real-Life P.I.
• Oooops! The Most Common Mistakes in Private Eye Fiction
• Never Happen The Real Deal on TV Cops by Charlie Shafer
• Work Lessons Everything I Know About the Job, I Learned From P.I. Novels
• Life Lessons Everything I Know, I Learned From P.I. Novels
• Rafferty's Rules
• There's an old Polish proverb that says... The Proverbs of Banacek
• Father Knox's Decalogue The Ten Rules of (Golden Age) Detective Fiction
• S.S. Van Dine's Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories More Golden Age Hooey
• Frank Gruber's Sure-Fire 11-Point Formula
• The Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot
• It's my prerogative...

History

• In the Beginning: Early Historical & Literary Influences
• In the Beginning: The First Hard-Boiled Private Eye Story
• The First Modern Eye
• The Firsts
• 100 Great Events
• The Top 100 Hard-Boiled Characters of the Twentieth Century
• Robert Randisi's PI Survey Results from rec.arts.mystery (1997)
• 100 Eyes of The Mystery Scene Era (so far...) (2007)
• Dick Lochte's Top 20 Private Eye Novels (2010; revised 2017)
• The 14 Best Private Eye Novels of All Time (2012)
• Banned! The Naughty List

Something Funny About the Eyes

• Are You Trying to Be Funny? Humour in a Severed Jugular Vein
• Let 'er Rip! Spoofs, Parodies, Essays and Articles
• In the Tradition of Hammett, Chandler, Macdonald... and Snoopy
• What, me shamus? Parodies and satires of TV Eyes in MAD Magazine
• If Mickey Spillane Wrote NANCY..
• Arlo, Janis & Spenser
• Cinematic Pie in the Eye The Best Private Eye Spoofs on Film
• See Ya in the Funny Pages P.I. Spoofs & Callouts in Cartoons and Comic Strips
• It's Hammer Time! Send-ups & Put-Downs of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

The Pulps and Short Stories

• The Pulp Era: The Crime & Detective Pulps
• Beyond the Pulps: The Slicks, the Digests and the Mystery Magazines
• Noteworthy Crime & Detective Pulps
• The Great Pulp Eyes
• Rogues' Gallery Erle Stanley Gardner's Series Characters
• Good Ol' Holyoke, Mass. The Place Where the Pulps Came From
• Some Great Short Story Series Featuring Private Eyes, from the Pulps and Beyond
• The Real Black Mask Boys Captured on film!
• The Fictioneers Role Call
• Writers Who Were Published in Black Mask
• Writers Who Were Published in Dime Detective
• Writers Who Were Published in The American Magazine
• The 1937 Writer's Market Listing For Black Mask
• Do's and Don'ts for Detective Writers Dealing With Sex By The Editors of Spicy Detective Magazine
• Richard A. Moore's Memories of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine
• The New Black Mask A Review and Tribute by Mark Coggins
• The Weirdest Pulp Eyes
• The Pulps and Beyond: Defective Detectives
• The Twenty Best Pulp Anthologies
• The Best Anthologies of Reprints
• The Best Anthologies of Original Stories
• Other Mystery Anthologies Worth Looking For
• The Akashic Noir Series It's a Noir World, After All
• Pulps of Interest: Private Eye Illustrated

Books

"All that book talk, that's a lot of ma-hah-hah!"

-- Duke Pastrami (Dan Duryea) in Ball of Fire

• Twenty-Five Best Private Eye Novels of All-Time From The Fine Art of Murder
• Joe's Twenty-Five Fave Detective Novels
  As chosen by Joe Lofgreen of Joe's Detective Pages
• Twenty-One Private Eye Classics
  As Chosen by Gary Warren Niebuhr
• Robert Randisi's 1997 PI Survey Results
• The 14 Best Private Eye Novels of All Time (2012)
• Some of the Great Detectives
  Eyes Included in Maxim Jakubowski's 100 Great Detectives
• Twelve Percent
  P.I. Novels among H.R.F. Keating's Crime & Mystery-The 100 Best Books
• Eyes Cream Geoff Bradley's Favourite 1st Person Private Eye Novels
• Best-Selling Eyes P.I. Novels Among U.S. Bestsellers 1895-1975
• The Great Series
• One Shot Eyes Some Great Private Eyes Who've Appeared in Only One Novel
• Stand Alone P.I. Novels (Poll Results)
• Ten Hard-To-Find One-Shots
• Banned! The Naughty List
• The Big Reads The Longest Private Eye Books
• The Big Stretch The Longest Series
• Blasts from the Past Some Great Publishers of Hard-boiled & Detective Fiction
• Some Current Publishers of Hard-boiled and Detective Fiction
• Some Current Publishers of Short Mystery Fiction
• Harlequin's Secret Shame Sometimes they liked it rough...
• Paperback Heroes Some Great PBO Eyes
• Paperback to hardcover
• Fall from grace-Hardcover to paperback
• Great cover art
• Great covers-Cheese division
• Not-so-great covers
• Dare to Judge This Book Great Pulp & Paperback Cover Artists (An Intro)
• Dare to Judge This Book Some Great Pulp & Paperback Cover Artists
• Dare to Judge This Book Some More Great Pulp & Paperback Cover Artists
• Bitch, bitch, bitch... Raymond Chandler complains about his book's cover
• Series Title Gimmicks
• Don't I Know You from Somewhere? Great (or at least memorable) Openings
• So Long, It's Been Good To Know Ya! Great (or at least memorable) Closings
• Everyone Into The Pool Books By Multiple Authors
• Reader, Take Heed! Most Over-used Blurbs
• Get 'em While They're Young Kiddie Pulp
• Kiddie Pulp II Portrait of the Detective as a Young Sleuth
• The Best Anthologies of Reprints
• The Best Anthologies of Original Stories
• Other Mystery Anthologies Worth Looking For
• The Mystery Writers of America Anthologies
• The Akashic Noir Series It's a Noir World, After All
• It's All in the Game: P.I. TV Tie-ins
• It's All in the Game: P.I. Movie Tie-ins
• The Cheese Stands Alone Alternative P.I. Classics (Poll Results)
• The Rara-avis Top 100 Hard-Boiled Characters of the Twentieth Century
• The Best P.I.s of the 30's
• The Best P.I.s of the 40's
• The Best P.I.s of the 50's
• The Best P.I.s of the 60's
• The Best P.I.s of the 70's
• The Best P.I.s of the 80's
• The Best P.I.s of the 90's (April 1998 Poll Results)

Writers and Writing

• Schmucks with Underwoods Authors & Creators
• On Writing Authors Say the Darnedest Things...
• Father Knox's Decalogue The Ten Rules of (Golden Age) Detective Fiction
• S.S. Van Dine's Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories More Golden Age Hooey
• Gone Too Soon They Coulda Been Contenders
• The Rara-Avis Blown Away List of Hard-Boiled Writers
• On Writing Authors Say the Darnedest Things...
• Telling Lies for Fun and Profit Lawrence Block Writes (and Writes) About Writing
• Rest in Pieces The Fictionalized Lives of Private Eye Writers
• True Detectives Non-fiction by Real-Life Eyes
• True Detectives Real-Life Eyes Who've Written P.I. Novels
• True Detective "The Memoirs of a Private Detective" by Dashiel Hammett
• Raymond Chandler's Ten Commandments For the Detective Novel
• True Love, Neither Tranished nor Afraid A Mash Note from Raymond Chandler
• Lighten Up, Ray! Quotations from Chairman Chandler
• Do's & Don'ts for Detective Writers Dealing With Sex From Spicy Detective
• Mistress Christa's Ten Rules to Write Noir
• Thundering Clichés By the editors of The Thrilling Detective Web Site
• Father Knox's Decalogue The Ten Rules of (Golden Age) Detective Fiction
• S.S. Van Dine's Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories More Golden Age Hooey
• Frank Gruber's Sure-Fire 11-Point Formula
• The Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot
• Never Happen The Real Deal on TV Cops by Charlie Shafer
• The Backstabbers Writers on Other Writers
• Pen Names
• Most P.I.s Created by One Person
• Most Prolific
• Everyone Into The Pool Books By Multiple Authors & Other Private Eye Team-Ups
• Marlowe's Predecessors
• What Went Where How Chandler Cannibalized His Own Work
• Short Story Writers
• Most Short Stories
• Best Short Stories
• You're a Mean Man with a Typewriter, Sister The Hardboiled Dames
• Who Was Brett Halliday? Hmmm...sounds like a case for Mike Shayne
• The Private Eye Tales of James M. Reasoner
• Dashiell Hammett's Introduction to The Maltese Falcon (1934 Edition)
• Mickey Spillane's Fan Letter to Carroll John Daly
• The Children of Travis McGee The Literary Descendants of Our Man Trav...
• If Mickey Spillane Wrote NANCY...
• Ghost Writers Have Pen, Will Travel
• Ghost Writers 2 Death is Not the End
• They Wrote What? Famous Writers Who Have Dipped Their Toes in the P.I. Pool
• A Turn for the Verse Poets Who Wrote Private Eye Fiction
• Strange Sisters, Indeed Male P.I. Writers Who Wrote Lesbian Pulp Fiction
• Burning the Midnight Oil Together P.I. Writers Who Are Couples
• Anthony Boucher's Proposed Code For Mystery Reviewers
• The Ten Commandments of Book Reviewing
  
  
• The Markets
• Some Current Publishers of Hardboiled & Detective Fiction
• Some Current Publishers of Short Mystery Fiction

Films

• The Big Screen: Celluoid Eyes A Timeline
• Thoughts on Private Eye Films
• Fifteen Best Private Eye Movies As chosen by Max Allan Collins
• Ten Favorite Detective, Hard-boiled & Noir Films As chosen by Brad Lang
• Dick Lochte's Top 20 Private Eye Movies (2010)
• The Blue Murder List Twenty Other Great P.I. Flicks
• This Turkey For Hire The Worst P.I. Films
• So It's Come to This... The Film Geeks' Top Ten P.I. Films. James & Gustavo have spoken.
• What Is Noir?
• The Great Noir Films
• Just Passing Through Memorable Eyes in Non-P.I. Flicks
• Those '70s Shows The Decade the Private Eye Film Came of Age
• The Great Series
• The Biggest Sleeps
• The Great Lost B's
• The Best Original Screenplays
• The Best Adaptations
• ACTING! The Best Film Eyes Great Performances
• What Were They Thinking? Miscast TV and Film Eyes
• The Casting Couch How About...
• The Casting Ouch Unlikely P.I.s
• Big Scores Classic Scores from PI Flicks
• David Thomson's Suspects
• Chandler on Film
• Films Chandler Worked On
• Part of the Nastiness Now Actors Who Played Philip Marlowe
• Auteur! Auteur! The Great P.I. Directors
• The Best Scenes
• Don't I Know You from Somewhere? Great (or at least memorable) Openings
• So Long, It's Been Good To Know Ya! Great (or at least memorable) Closings
• Gunsels, Dames, etc... The Great Supporting Characters
• Gee, Let's Keep Doing This Until We Get It Right Remakes
• On the Trail of The Black Bird... The Whereabouts of the "Real" Maltese Falcon
• Writers Who Worked on the "Hammett" Screenplay
• Cinematic Pie in the Eye The Best Private Eye Spoofs
• The Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid Cheatsheet Films used in the making of the film.
• Dressed to Kill Classic Crime & Noir Films That Edith Head Designed Costumes For
• Once More to the Well Film & Television's Most Valuable Players
• The Cheaper the Crook The Crime Films of Elisha Cook Jr.
• The Unintentional Comedies
• Boffo Box Office! The Hits
• The Flops
• Great Lines from Private Eye Flicks
• Great Lines Hammett Division
• Oscar Winners
• The Neo-B's: Noir in the Nineties Non-PI Division
• It's All in the Game P.I. Movie Tie-ins
• Coming Distractions Film & TV goodies you may have missed. Investigations pending.
• Coming Attractions Chris Baldemor tracks down some upcoming film & TV goodies.

Radio

• The Favourite Dicks of Old-Time Radio
• The Great Radio Eyes
• Brought to You By...
• The Longest Running
• The Greatest Intros
• From Other Sources...
• Radio Links
• Suggested Radio Bibliography
• "The Chargogagogmanchogagogchabunamungamog Caper"
• The Adventures of Harry Nile Stewart Wright Talks with Jim French & Phil Harper

Television: Watching the Detectives

• Private Eyes: One of the Fifty Things TV Guide's Matt Roush Loves About TV
• Thrilling Detective's Best and Worst of the TV Eyes (Poll Results)
• The Top Ten Private Eye Shows from The Best of Crime & Detective TV
• Dick Lochte's Top 20 TV Private Eyes (2010; revised 2017)
• TV Eyes: The Series Including mini-series, and TV-movie series
• TV Eyes: Made-for-the-Tube Movies, Pilots & Straight to DVD Releases
• The TV Timeline TV Series in Chronological Order
• The TV GUIDE Gallery They've Got You Covered
• The Great TV Eyes
• The Early Shows
• Shows Adapted from Radio
• The Longest Running
• Brilliant But Cancelled 14 Private Eye Shows That Coulda Been Contenders
• Public Broadcast, Private Eyes Private Detectives from PBS' Mystery!
• Not Quite Ready for Primetime Unsold Pilots
• The Turkeys
• Mysterious facts you wouldn't know if it weren't for TV...
• The Casting Ouch Unlikely P.I.s
• What Were They Thinking? Miscast TV and Film Eyes
• Big Scores on a Little Box Classic Scores from PI TV Shows
• P.I. Theme Songs that Hit the Charts
• The A Team Stephen J. Cannell & Roy Huggins
• Private Eye Shows Stephen J. Cannell Was Involved In
• This is Jim Rockford... Some memorable messages left on Rockford's answering machine
• There's an old Polish proverb that says... The Proverbs of Banacek
• Veronica (Mars) Speaks A selection of quotes from the snarky one.
• Once More to the Well Film & Television's Most Valuable P.I. Players
• Crossover Hangover TV Eyes Who Dropped By on Other Shows
• What, me shamus? Parodies and satires of TV Eyes in MAD Magazine
• The Best Pilots
• The Best TV Movies
• It's All in the Game: P.I. TV Tie-ins
• Coming Soon to a Tube Near You... The 2004-05 Season
• Emmy Winners
• Coming Distractions Film & TV goodies you may have missed.
• Coming Attractions Chris Baldemor tracks down some upcoming film & TV goodies
• Poor Bob The Private Eye Shows of Robert Urich

Other Media, Other Diversions

ART FOR ART'S SAKE

• Artists Inspired by Noir
• Dare to Judge This Book Great Pulp & Paperback Cover Artists (An Intro)
• Dare to Judge This Book Some Great Pulp & Paperback Cover Artists
• Dare to Judge This Book Some More Great Pulp & Paperback Cover Artists

SUDDENLY THE AIR WAS FULL OF MUSIC

• Suddenly the Air Was Full of Music The Private Eye Mix Tape

• Suddenly the Air Was Full of Music The Private Eye Record Collection

• Big Scores Classic Scores from PI Flicks

• Big Scores on a Little Box Classic Scores from PI TV Shows

• How Does It Feel? References to Crime and Detective Fiction and Films Found in Bob Dylan's Work

• How Does It Feel? Part Two Private eye novels whose titles are lifted from Bob Dylan's work

• Drive-Bys Private Eyes in Hip-Hop

• John Zorn's Liner Notes from Spillane It Was Easy

HOW GRAPHIC DO YA WANNA GET?

• Eyes Featured in Comic Books, Strips and Graphic Novels
• Comic Books, Strips & Graphic Novels
• ZUT! European Comic Books, Strips, Graphic Novels, Albums & Bandes Désinées
• Detective Comics Private eyes who have shown up in DC Comics.
• To the Batcave! P.I. Writers who Have Contributed to the Canon
• Dark Horse Presents Gumshoes introduced in the comic anthology series.
• Eyes on the No-Prize Private Eyes of the Marvel Universe
• Drawn That Way Ten or So Lady Eyes from the Comics
• See Ya in the Funny Papers!!! Comic Book Eyes (Poll Results)
• Feature Books Some of the Most Collectable P.I. Comics of All!
• See Ya in the Funny Pages P.I. Spoofs & Callouts in Cartoons & Comic Strips
• BD PI's
• Let's Get Animated: Cartoon Eyes
  
  

ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE

• Plays, Operas, Musicals and Other Theatrical Diversions
  
  

GAMES & TOYS

• The P.I. Toy Chest Treasures from the Past
• Assembly Required Some Cool P.I. Model Car Kits
• Oh, The Games People Play Then Some Classic Private Eye & Detective Board Games
• Oh, The Games People Play Then Some Early P.I. Videogames
• Oh, The Games People Play Now Some Newer P.I. and Noir Games
• The Game's A-foot! Puzzles and Other P.I. Games
  
  

FOOD & DRINK

• I Got Some Cooking to Do Cookbooks by Mystery Authors (and their detectives)
  
  

STAMPS

• Signed, Sealed and Delivered P.I. Postage Stamps
  
  

THE WEB

• Mystery Links
  

GIFTS & COLLECTABLES

• Collecting & Other Diversions Web Games, Mystery Parties, Stamps, Paperbacks, etc.
• Take It and Like It! Christmas 1998 Gift Suggestions
• Besides My Two Front Teeth Christmas 1999 Gift Suggestions
• The Fat Man Cometh Christmas 2000 Gift Suggestions
• Naughty or Nice? Christmas 2001 Gift Suggestions
• People Were Too Naughty There Were No 2002 Gift Suggestions
• As Naughty As We Wanna Be Christmas 2003 Gift Suggestions
• Silver Bells and Brass Knuckles Christmas 2004 Gift Suggestions
• Down These Yuletide Streets Christmas 2005 Suggestions
• Gimcracks, Geegaws and Other Dinguses Private Eye Collectables
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TRAVEL

• Wining, Dining and Sight-Seeing Places to Visit on the P.I. World Tour
• Wherever I Lay My Hat... Private Eye Watering Holes and Hangouts
• Conventions & Fan Events
  
  

Non-Fiction: Essays, Reviews and Other Stuff

• Welcome to L.A. Opening Remarks by Robert Crais
• The New Pulp!: A Tribute To Blue Murder Essay by Kevin Burton Smith
• Nero Wolfe: A Social Commentary on the US Essay by Marcia Kiser
• The Mitch Tobin Series Overview by Bryan Schingle
• In His Shadow by Dave Zeltserman Review by Mario Taboada
• The Adventures of Cardigan Review by Mario Taboada
• Memories of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Reminisces By Richard A. Moore
• Spenser and Hawk: A Study of Good and Evil in the Fiction of Robert B. Parker Essay by Gerald So
• The Donald Strachey Series by Richard Stevenson Overview by D.L. Browne
• Lost Light by Michael Connelly Review by David White
• Hardbroiled, edited by Michael Bracken Review by James R. Winter
• The Last Place by Laura Lippman Review by James R. Winter
• The Narrows by Michael Connelly Review by Ron DeSourdis
• Blood is the Sky by Steve Hamilton Review by James R. Winter
• No Time To Mourn by Tim Wohlforth Review by Dale Stoyer
• Eve Missing by Ralph Pezzullo Review by Dale Stoyer
• Tonight I Said Goodbye by Michael Koryta Review by James R. Winter
  
  
• See the full list...

The Eyes

The Name Game

• The Greatest P.I Names
• The Worst P.I. Names
• No-Name Eyes
• Alternative Nomenclature
• What's in a Name? The Origins of Some Great Names of Eyes
• What's in a Name? Nick-Named Eyes
• Because Dash Riprock Was Already Taken Manly Monickers
• The Big List
• Names and Titles in a Chandleresque Vein
• Joes to the Left of Me, Joes to the Right... A bunch of dicks named Joe.
• The Three Barney Glines of William Ard
• Past Their Expiry Date? Private Eyes That Won't Stay Dead
• Boys and Their Toys

Have We Got an Eye for You!

• The Thrilling Detective April 1998 P.I. Poll Results
• Robert Randisi's 1997 PI Survey Results
• The Top 100 Hard-Boiled Characters of the Twentieth Century Compiled by the Members of Rara-Avis (2002)
• Drinking Buddies Eyes I'd Most Like to Have a Beer With
• Something Funny About The Eyes The Funniest Eyes
• Winking Eyes The Parodies
• The Big Stuff Corpulent Eyes
• Sweating The Small Stuff The Shortest Eyes
• Tall Eyes
• Young Eyes
• Hand Me Down My Walking Cane Old Dicks
• Hardboiled Eyes
• Softboiled Eyes
• Overboiled Eyes
• These Eyes Keep Themselves in Trouble Bad, Bad Eyes
• Defective Detectives Handicapped Heroes
• Beautiful Dreamers, Looney Tunes & Other Reality-Challenged Eyes
• Turn It Up To Eleven Gonzo Eyes
• No Business For a Lady Female Eyes (P.I. Poll Results)
• The Lady Detectives Pre-1900 Lady Eyes
• Dangerous Dames A Timeline of Some of the Major Female Eyes
• Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves Some Great Female Eyes
• Some Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Bimbo Eyes & Other Embarrassments
• The Best Female Sleuths from Pop Culture According to criminalelement.com
• Lovers in a Dangerous Time P.I. Romance Novels
• God Is My Partner Christian Eyes
• Even a Shamus Could Be a Shamus Nice Jewish Eyes
• Chicano Eyes
• Mormon Eyes
• Can You Dig It? The Original Black Eyes
• Can You Dig The New Breed? The New Black Eyes
• What Were Once Vices... Gay and Lesbian Eyes
• Rod Shaw's How To Tell If You're a Redneck P.I.
• Native American Eyes & Faithful Indian Companions
• Mick Dicks
• Baby, Baby, Baby, You're Outta Time Retro (Historical) Eyes
• Most Violent Eyes
• The Great One Shot Eyes
• Well-armed Eyes
• One-armed Eyes
• Got Game? Ex-Jock Eyes
• My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys Cowboy Eyes
• Back on the Chain Gang Eyes Who've Served Time
• Deck the Mean Streets with Boughs of Holly Christmas Eyes
• Do You Hear What I Hear? Christmas Eyes on Old Time Radio

Lifestyles of the Neither Tarnished nor Afraid

• Lone Wolves

• Goin' Steady Long Time Couples

• Hitched! Married Eyes and Their Spouses

• Ditched! D-I-V-O-R-C-E

• Family Values Gumshoes, with Children

• If I Were a Rich Man Millionaire Eyes

• By No Means Low-rent Eyes

• King of the Road No Fixed Address

• Travis McGee's Little Black Book

• The Children of Travis McGee The Literary Descendants of Our Man Trav...

• XXX Dirty Eyes and Other X-rated Gumshoes

• Sexless Eyes

• Obsessed Eyes Get a Life!

• Wherever I Lay My Hat... Private Eye Watering Holes and Hangouts

• On the Trail of The Black Bird... The Whereabouts of the "Real" Maltese Falcon

• Get Yer Motor Runnin'... Hot Wheels of Some Hot Eyes
• Two Wheels Good
• Gentlemen, Name Your Poison Drinkers, Stinkers and Occasional Tipplers

• Gentlemen, Name Your Poison Dabblers, Inhalers and Other Substance-Abusing Eyes

• Gentlemen, Name Your Poison Drinks Made Famous in Detective Flicks & TV Shows Hollywood

• The Beers of Spenser

• Private Eyes and Their Hobbies

• A Guy's Gotta Eat Gourmet Eyes

• Off To the Races Horsey Eyes

• Field and Stream Hunting and Fishing Eyes

• Chess-Playing Eyes

• The Truth About Cats and Dogs Pet-Owning Eyes

• Flip, Flop and Fly More Pet-Owning Eyes

• Going to the Dogs The Great Mutts of Detective Fiction

• "Oh mama, I got dem cosmic anthropomorphic P.I. blues again..."
  Going to the dogs, the cats and worse

The Working Life

• An Eye by Any Other Name Would Still Smell As Sweet
• Amateur Hour Official Occupations of Some Popular "Eyes by Accident"
• You Better Get Some Insurance, Baby You're in Good Hands With These Insurance Dicks
• Bounty Hunters
• Stop the Presses! Newsroom Eyes
• Death Flags a Cab Taxi-Driving Eyes
• Lawyer Eyes
• KIDNAPPED! A List of K&R Specialists
• Spy/Eyes
• House Dicks
• Pole Positions Stripper Detectives
• They Get Around Globetrotting Eyes
• Moonlighting Eyes
• Skip Tracers & Repo Men
• On the Con Scam Artists
• Bodyguards
• Sometimes You Kill Me Hitmen & Assassins
• Missing Persons
• Some Great Detective Agencies, A-Z
• Lone Wolves
• All Hawk's Children Kick-Ass Sidekicks
• Great Gals Stand-up dames and the eyes lucky enough to have them
• You're a Good Man, Sister Great Gals, Secretarial Division
• Great Offices
• Apples of the Eye It's a Mac, Mac, Mac World
• Odd Couples; or Two Eyes are Better Than One Great Partnerships
• Company Men
• Well-Armed Dicks
• Un-Armed Eyes
• Dirty Eyes
• Dirty Blue Crooked Cops and Other Great Villians
• Claire DeWitt's Other Cases

Curiouser and Curiouser

• Baby, Baby, Baby, You're Outta Time Retro (Historical) Eyes
• Down Those Mean Skies SciFi P.I.'s
• I Ain't Afraid Of No Ghosts Fantasy and Occult Eyes
• And Throw Away the Key! Locked Room P.I. Mysteries
• Hello, I Must Be Going Great Moments of Unconsciousness
• Wining, Dining and Sight-Seeing Places to Visit on the P.I. World Tour
• We're Living In a Political World Eyes Left
• We're Living In a Political World Eyes Right
• Four Eyes Twin Private Detectives
• Eyes' the Bye P.I.s Who Live Afloat
• 9/11 P.I. Stories & Novels That Deal With the Events of September 11, 2001
• Death Is Not the End Private Eyes Who Won't Stay Dead Even If Their Creators Are

Trivier and Trivier

• The Big List
• Great P.I. Names
• One Name or Less
• Tips of the Fedora
• Thumbs of the Nose
• Great Cameos
• Everyone Into The Pool Books By Multiple Author & Other Private Eye Team-Ups

The Work

• Wandering Daughter Jobs & Other Great Missing Persons Cases
• Ah! So That Explains It P.I.s Solve Famous Mysteries
• And It's One-Two-Three Strikes You're Out Baseball P.I. Mysteries
  
  

Calling Out Around the World (The P.I. Directory)

"Every city gets the detective it deserves."

-- Paco Taibo II

• Wining, Dining and Sight-Seeing Places to Visit on the P.I. World Tour
• The Akashic Noir Series It's a Noir World, After All

ASIA

• The Eyes of Southeast Asia
• Indian Eyes Sub-continental ops
• Chinese Eyes
• Big in Japan Japanese Eyes
• Nyey, Nyet, Soviet Russian Eyes

EUROPE

• European Eyes
• Zut! Les Flics Privés French Eyes
• Spanish Eyes, Blue and Otherwise
• Nordic Eyes Scandinavia (and Finland)
• Europe The American Plan

U.K.

• The Sun Never Sets on The British Eye Commonwealth Eyes
• Irish Eyes, Smiling and Otherwise P.I.'s of the Emerald Isle
• There'll Always Be an England British Eyes
• The Mean Streets of London
• Scotland the Brave Scottish Eyes
• Welsh Eyes
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NORTH AMERICA

Canada

"You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn't you? Look harder. It's where someone got axed in the snow."
-- Margaret Atwood

• Vancouver and Beautiful British Columbia
• Murder in a Distinct Society Montréal and Other Québec Eyes
• Ontari-ari-ari-o Ontario (includes Toronto)
• The Maple Leaf Rag Other Canadian Eyes

Meanwhile, Back in the States...
By City

• Ah Boston, You're My Home
• Their Kind of Town Chicago Eyes
• Cleveland Rocks!
• Don't Forget the Motor City Detroit
• Kansas City, Here I Come
• The City of Angels Los Angeles
• Hollywood Detectives
• Santa Barbara (Santa Theresa)
• They Left Their Hearts... San Francisco Eyes
• Memphis in the Meantime
• New Orleans O'Neil De Noux's Big Easy Favourites & Other Louisiana Eyes
• Capitol Crimes Washington, D.C.
• Charm City, I'm Sure Baltimore Eyes
• All in All, They'd Rather Be in Philadelphia
• That's the Way the Missouri Breaks...
• Viva Las Vegas

By State

• Alaska
• Arizona
• California
  The City of Angels Los Angeles
  Hollywood Detectives
  Santa Barbara (Santa Theresa)
  Wish They All Could Be California Girls
  They Left Their Hearts in San Francisco
• Colorado, Montana, Wyoming & Idaho Rocky Mountain Eyes
• Florida Freshly-Squeezed Eyes
• Georgia on My Mind
• Hawaii
• Illinois Eye, As in Illinois
• Indianapolis
• Kentucky
• O'Neil De Noux's Big Easy Favourites & Other Louisiana Eyes
• Hard-Boiled Maryland
• Minnesota Gopher State Gumshoes
• Yankees, Maine Men and Other New England Eyes
• New Jersey
• New York Empire State Eyes
  Start Spreading the News Big Apple Eyes
• Ohio How Many More?
• Oregon
• Pacific Northwest An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down
• Pennsylvania Six-Five Thousand!
• Rhode Island
• Whistlin' Dixie Southern Eyes
• Texas The Eyes of Texas are Upon You
• Utah Eyes And All That Jazz
• Virginia Eyes Talk To Me Like You Do...
• Vermont Green Mountain Eyes
• Washington
• Wisconsin

• South of the Border Mexican Eyes
• Really South of the Border South American & Latin American Eyes
• The Caribbean
• Africa
• Polynesia
• Australia, New Zealand & Tasmania

Eyes on the Prize: Awards & Organizations

• The Private Eye Writers of America & The Shamus Awards
• The St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America Best First Mystery Novel Contest
• The Mystery Writers of America and The Edgar Awards
• The International Association of Crime Writers and The Dashiell Hammett Awards
• The American Crime Writers League
• Mystery Readers International and The Macavity Awards
• Bouchercon Anthony Award Winners in the Private Eye Genre
• The Crime Writers of Canada and The Arthur Ellis Awards
• The Crime Writers Association of Australia and The Ned Kelly Awards
• The Crime Writers Association (CWA) Awards
• The Short Mystery Fiction Society and The Derringer Awards
• The Barry Awards
• Deutsche Krimi Preis
• The On-Line Mystery Awards
• Emmy Winners
• Oscar P.I.

Previous P.I. Poll Results

• April 1998 | The Best P.I. of the 90's
• May 1998 | The Best and Worst of the TV Eyes
• June 1998 | No Business For a Lady: Female Eyes
• Summer 1998 | The Cheese Stands Alone-Alternative P.I. Classics
• Fall 1998: See Ya in the Funny Papers!!! | Comic Book Eyes
• November 1998 | Stand Alone P.I. Novels
• The 1998 Cheap Thrill Awards | The Year in Review
• Spring Break 1999 | The Face the Face Challenge
• March-April 1999 | True Confessions
• May-June 1999 | Down Those Mean Skies...Sci-Fi P.I.'s
• Summer 1999 | Murder on the Airwaves: Radio Eyes--Then and Now
• Fall 1999 | Dashiell Hammett--What Do You Think?
• The 1999 Cheap Thrill Awards | The Year in Review
• Spring 2000 | Short Stories: Private Eye Action As You Like It!
• Summer/Fall 2000 | Go Ahead and Talk: Our First Ever Reader's Survey
• The 2000 Cheap Thrill Awards | The Year in Review
• Spring 2001 | Odds & Sods: The P.I. Poll Grab Bag
• Summer 2001 | Let's Go To the Movies!
• Autumn 2001 | Calling Out Around the World
• The 2001 Cheap Thrill Awards | The Year in Review
• The 2002 Cheap Thrill Awards | The Year in Review
• C'mon Guys, It's Not THAT Hard! | The 2003 P.I. Trivia Contest
• The 2003 Cheap Thrill Awards | The Year in Review
• Spring 2004 | Eyes Right: The Thrilling Detective/CrimeSeen Movie/TV Poll
• The 2004 Cheap Thrill Awards | The Year in Review
• Take It and Like It! | The Hammett P.I. Poll
• The 2005 Cheap Thrill Awards | The Year in Review
• The 2006 Cheap Thrill Awards | The Year in Review
• The 2007 Cheap Thrill Awards | The Year in Review
• The Tenth Anniversary | Our Birthday Card
• The Chosen Thirteen | Our Readers' Favourites (2011)
• The 14 Best Private Eye Novels of All Time (2012)

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