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"There's nothing left of this profession, Frank, it's all over."
-- Al Hickey in 1972 P.I. classic Hickey & Boggs
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This Just In...
What's New in the P.I. World
(Plus Random Thoughts & Other Provocations)
- Brenna Spector
Alison Gaylin's new P.I. never forgets. Will you?
- Old TV Dicks Now Streaming
Better hurry. Some of these are almost definitely copyrighted and widely available as legit DVDs, but some of these are almost impossible to find -- and possibly in a copyrighrt No Man's Land: Richard Diamond, Charlie Wild, Eddie Drake, Jeffrey Jones, Hollywood Offbeat, Las Vegas Beat, Martin Kane and more. Let your conscience be your guide...
- Robert Downey, Jr. as Perry Mason?
Now that he's pissed on Sherlock Holmes, the buzz is that Downey wants to make his mark on another beloved detective hero: Erle Stanley Gardner's slippery shyster, Perry Mason, and he and wants to do it as a period piece. Hmmm... and Johnny Depp has been tinkering with the idea of a Thin Man remake, also in period drag. Just a coincidence, I'm sure...
- Everybody Get Blue!
Two great new books in February: John Harvey's A Darker Shade of Blue, an anthology featuring all eight (so far) short stories featuring ex-footballer London P.I. Jack Riley, and Dick Lochte ditches the weatherman for a moment to unleash a great no character, take-no-shit-from-anybody Dave "Mace" Mason in Blues in the Night.
- Ah, good books to come...
The real fun of being a reviewer is often the books I DON'T have to read, but that come winging over the transom anyway. I'm really enjoying Walter Mosely's upcoming Leonid McGill joint, All I Did Was Shoot My Man, a dark, brooding and quietly disturbing wallow in guilt, fear and middle-aged angst, and Robert Crais' new, typically action-packed Elvis Cole book, Taken, which should be required reading for anyone who has any opinion at all on illegal immigration. After two assigned duds in a row, I deserved a good read. Yeah, these guys certainly don't need a plug from me, but they're really good books.
- Block's Shyster comes to eBook
Lawrence Block's Martin Ehrengraf is the criminal defense attorney (emphasis on "criminal") so slick he makes grease feel like sandpaper. Now his short stories are coming to an e-reader near you, starting with the classic "The Ehrengraf Defense." A steal at 99 cents.
- Props & Peeves!
Author and working private eye Colleen Collins dishes up the dirt on who's naughty and who's nice when it comes to getting it right.
- Bruen's Taylor comes to the Tube.
Based on the trailers, I sooo want to see these TV flicks based on Ken Bruen's string of astounding novels about Galway private eye Jack Taylor. Are the actual flicks as good as they look? Only available in Ireland, you say? Pity...
- Like Your Dicks With a Little Mileage on 'em?
Ronald Tierney's first four Deets Shanahan mysteries are now on Kindle, starting with Stone Veil.
- Two (Count 'em) Two Great articles on P.I. in PW
"Parker's Brothers" and "A Suitable Job for a Woman" both feature plenty of great quotes from Laura Lippman, Sean Chercover, Kelli Stanley, Dave White, S.J. Rozan, Max Allan Collins, and the great Liza Cody, among others.
- Why Can't We Be Friends?
Abandoning all pride, I provide a list of people who have recently helped support this site. Please don't make me hold a pledge drive...
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And that's not all!
Here are a few new or recently expanded entries...
- Brenna Spector Unforgettability. Blessing or curse?
- Norm Carpenter & Al Hasp A born-again gumshoe and his doubting Thomas of a partner.
- Jonah Geller A Toronto P.I. who seems to want to be anywhere but home.
- Elvin Suggs Oh mama, I got dem PTSD Vietnam War St. Louis blues again...
- Butch Fatale Christa Faust's dyke dick has her tongue firmly in her cheek -- and other places.
- Tenzing Norbu Om. Ommmm. Ommmmmmmmm....
- Fogtown One of the best P.I. graphic novels ever?
- Joe Medford Hollywood's 1940s newshawk's beat.
- Bitch, bitch, bitch... Raymond Chandler complains about his book's cover
- Cliff St. James A new New Orleans eye.
- Lie to Me The human lie detector as prick.
- Keri Krane The first hard-boiled female eye of the comics?
- Spero Lucas Pelecanos' new P.I. 'nuff said...
- Tony Just Eugene Izzi's shot at P.I. fiction.
- The Mystery Writers of America Anthologies A new list, compiled by Abbey from Boston
- Hong Kong and Markham Full episode lists of obscure 1960s P.I. shows added.
- Lester Leith Erle Stanley Gardner's gentleman thief.
- The Finder A Bones spinoff, of all things!
- Inch High Private Eye Before there was Sin City...
- Oscar Hellian An early story by comics legend John Bolton.
- Solar Pons The Great Pretender.
- Hazell The biggest bastard who ever pushed your bell-button.
- There are a few of my Favourite blogs... Cleaned up & updated at last.
- Nathan Doyle & Matthew Spain Newshawk versus cop in 1940s Los Angeles.
- Twenty-One Private Eye Classics As Chosen by Gary Warren Niebuhr.
- Twelve Percent P.I. Novels among H.R.F. Keating's Crime & Mystery-The 100 Best Books
- Some of the Great Detectives Eyes Included in Maxim Jakubowski's 100 Great Detectives
- Twenty-Five Best Private Eye Novels of All Time As chosen by Jon L. Breen in The Fine Art of Murder
- What the Sam Hill? Archie Comics to do hard-boiled private eye series? Again?
- Count Heinrich von Alternberg Wouldn't you change that name too?
- Sam Briscoe Pete Hamill's hard-boiled newshawk. Profile by Wayne D. Dundee.
- Pete Shay A PBO blast from the past. Profile by Wayne D. Dundee.
- John Corey Nelson Demille's "special contract agent" for the Feds. Spy or eye?
- Feature Books Some of the most collectible P.I. comics of all!
- Justin Case George Carlin, Private Eye?
- Made for TV P.I. Flicks
- Nick Heller Private eye. Or private spy?
- Rick Knight Rated X. Maybe even XX.
- Joe Scintilla Meet the e-pulp, same as the old pulp.
- Leo Desroches This Edmonton, Alberta reporter covers "Aboriginal Issues." Like, um, murder.
- Jade de Jong Johannesburg's latest gumshoe.
- My Favourite Private Eye Things of 2010 God, it's good to be back.
- J. McNee Dundee's finest eye.
- Give 'em Hell, Malone Is this a video game or a movie?
- Leo Pulp One of the great P.I. spoofs.
- The Detective I'd give this Hong Kong P.I. flick a solid B+. A pleasant surprise.
- Green Candles I'd forgotten how good this 1995 graphic novel is!
- Ralph Henderson The first fictional private eye?
- Joe Coogan This is an ex-P.I.
- Charles Unwin Was this the inception of Inception?
- Dallas Duane A P.I. working the oilfields of the 1930s West.
- In the Beginning Early Historical & Literary Influences.
- Coronado 9 Rod Cameron as 1960 San Diego P.I.
- The Ferret A P.I. blast from Marvel Comics' past.
- Martin Fender A rock'n'roll gumshoe if there ever was one.
- Writers They say the darnedest things.
- John K. Butler One of the classic old pulp guys.
- Cat DeLuca Runs the Liar, Liar Pants on Fire Agency in Chicago.
- John Blacksad In this cat's world, the femme fatales really do have claws...
- Sasha Jackson A new Toronto gumshoe. No vampires.
- Miranda Corbie The kinda girl you don't bring home to mother.
- John Easy Oh, the grooviness!
- The Real Black Mask Boys Captured on film!
- John Swan Canuck noir as hard and bleak as it gets. I'll get the next round, Kerry....
- Beverly Hills Buntz Come back, Dennis. All is forgiven.
- Sweating Bullets/Tropical Heat I can't believe I used to watch this...
- Crispin Darke As corporate spokesmen go, this one ain't so bad.
- Peter Braid When I grow up, I want to be Mike Hammer.
- Booker Mannix for the MTV generation?
- Bragg Jack Lynch's classic hard-boiled San Francisco eye. What happened?
- Renegade A modern day bounty hunter from the Cannell TV factory...
- Terriers Let's see if these dogs can bark...
- Graham Gage A globe-trotting go-to guy.
- Thóra Gudmundsdóttir Our gal in Iceland.
- Matt Richter A zombie P.I.? Sigh...
- Leverage A little bit of The Sting, a little Vengeance Unlimited...
- They All Laughed ... but audiences didn't.
- Ted Stephens A Texas dick with Mississippi on his mind.
- Dexter Bolzjak Onions sorted, missing actresses tracked down...
- Remer Daniel Judson's new P.I.
- Sam Montcalm An honest-to-goodness Ottawa eye.
- David Spandau Depp Jam!
- Liz Monroe She didn't make it after all...
- Nicky Mahoun A two-fisted, hardboiled accountant. From Glasgow. No, really...
- Pete Bayliss A Korean vet gets set up by a mystery babe.
- Al Darlan Ed Hoch's private eye.
- Charlie Fox The female Jack Reacher?
- Torchy Blane The original motormouth newshawk finally on DVD!
- Mikael Blomkvist & Lisbeth Salander A couple of Swedish oddballs.
- Frank Armstrong Arnold was wrong. It IS a tumor.
- Bart Anderson One of James Hadley Chase's innumerable eyes.
- Digger/Trace/Murphy How to tell 'em apart.
- Stephen Barth This Dell private eye was #1.
- Republic of Doyle At last! Newfoundland gets some P.I. love!
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