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What's new on the site...
Okay, maybe in 2010...
For those of you wondering where the hell the new issue of Thrilling Detective is, well, you're not alone...
Honest, I had very good intentions, and I've got most of it ready, but somehow our Summer Issue became our Fall issue, and then that turned into our next issue which should be here before the next Ice Age.
Probably...
My sincere apologies to everyone. In the meantime, here's the scoop on our last issue. Enjoy it while you can...

THIS ISSUE
Once again Gerald has acted as gatekeeper, only letting in the worthy. And be forewarned: love rears its ugly head this go-round. We kick off with "Love is for Suckers" by Robert Petyo, about a private eye who isn't sure anymore who's watching who and who's zoomin' who. Next up is "Terra Bella" by Robert Stevens, a decidely bucolic tale that shows there's more than cowshit that smells bad in the sticks. Our old pal Jim Winter returns with "Love Don't Mean a Thing," a nasty little tale of love, hate and revenge, featuring his long-time series gumshoe Nick Kepler.
Also in this issue we have "East of A," a classic Payton Sherwood reprint by Russell Atwood that originally appeared in the June 1996 issue of EQMM. And we wrap up things with an excerpt from The Big Wake-Up, the upcoming novel by Mark Coggins, featuring his San Francisco eye August Riordan And for those of you into theInto A audio/visual thing, head on over to Mark's web site, and dig the first chapter all over again, read by William P. Arney, from the site of Dashiell Hammett's old apartment, where The Maltese Falcon was written (I kid you not!) and accompanied by a slide show featuring the places in San Francisco where the action in The Big Wake-Up takes place.
But that's not all -- we've also got a great non-fiction piece making its Thrilling Detective debut. "A Man Must Do What He Must: Hammett's Pragmatism" is an unapologetic think-piece by Josef Hoffmann that makes no bones about its thesis: Hammett wasn't a Communist; he was a pragmatist.
And, uh, there's other stuff coming, including about three or four months of bits and pieces that have accumulated in my in box. Be patient -- I'll get to it.
And of course we're always looking for contributions. Don't worry, I don't bite. Well, hardly...

HELP US OUT
Send Chris Baldemor, our new Film Editor, any news you can on upcoming theatrical P.I. films and DVD releases. We're also hoping to expand our non-fiction and review sections, so don't be shy. And, of course, we're always keeping an eye peeled for new fiction.
If you want to help contribute to the site, be it as a writer or an editor or even simply as a sponsor or an advertiser, please drop us a line. We'd be glad to hear from you..
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And here are a few new or expanded entries...
- The 2009 Shamus Winners Bob finally gets his!
- "The internet's most popular crime-fiction site" Drinks for everyone!
- Graham Gage A globe-trotting go-to guy.
- Leverage A little bit of The Sting, a little Vengeance Unlimited...
- 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!
- Saz Martin "Dyke detective."
- Looking for Robert B. Parker Cameron Hughes' must-read intorduction to The Rap Sheet tribute.
- Pepe Carvahlo Hard-boiled, with recipes.
- Charlie Tate & Elodie Gray An odd couple of eyes hit Toronto.
- Lluis Arquer A preliminary entry on the popular Catalan P.I.
- Christopher Chance The Human Target returns to TV.
- Quinny Hite Think that name got him picked on as a kid?
- Ted Malvern/Ted Carmady Got a pencil? You might want to take notes here...
- John Rankin A Washington, D.C. eye who has low friends in high places.
- Joe Grundy A Vancouver hotel dick well worth meeting...
- Jaakko Piira Revised entry on one of the first Finnish eyes.
- Jake Rubidoux William DeVane as a Big Easy eye? Pour vrai?
- Ross Stewart This P.I. isn't REALLY crazy.
- Doc Sportello Thomas Pynchon's slacker surfer P.I. No, really...
- Streeter Whatever happened to this great Denver eye?
- Danny Getchell Ellroy's pint-sized purveyor of tawdry tabloiderie.
- Sadipe Okukenu The first black private eye?
- Vincent Saldona & Mullet Mendes The Dark Continent just got darker.
- Jennifer Hunter There's a couple of things you could call her...
- Ennis Skinner Trying to keep it clean in the Dirty South.
- Harlequin's Secret Shame Sometimes they liked it rough... and they still do.
- Floyd Jackson One of James Hadley Chase's not overly honest eyes.
- Jared McKean A new Nashville Cat for ya.
- John Justin Mallory Dragons? Vampires? Unicorns? Mallory's your man.
- Wilson From Hamilton, Ontario comes a new bad boy.
- Billy Povich Stop the presses. There's a new newshawk in town.
- Bill Shannon Another messed-up Colorado eye from Zeltserman.
- We Want Our DVDs: Top Ten P.I. Shows That Really Should Be on DVD, Already...The Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid Cheatsheet Films used in the making of the film.
- Vish Puri The main man from Delhi's Most Private Investigators Ltd.
- Hank Hyers An interesting pre-Marlowe dick.
- Simeon Grist An action-packed 90s take on Chandler.
- Johnny Wadd The hardcore dick returns -- to comics!
- Eddie Bear & Jack When Humpty Dumpty gets over-boiled, call these guys...
- Marcus Rydell & Kat Holley The Dick and the Doc.
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- Get Your Motor Runnin' Some hot (and not-so-hot) whells of some hot eyes.
- The Real Black Mask Boys Captured on film!
- Hardcastle and McCormick The boys are back in town.
- Kline Josh Hartnett, P.I. What the bloody hell?
- Malone Coming soon to a multiplex near you. give 'em hell.
- The Big Bang Antonio Banderas as LA private eye Ned Cruz? Maybe.
- Cinder DuBois and Jacob Ashe Two 'Nam survivors become Big Easy eyes.
- Carly Paladino & Noah Lang The start of a beautiful friendship?
- Max Mingus Nasty, nasty, nasty -- but oh, so good.
- Izzy Spellman It's a family affair...
- Precious Ramotswe Botswana is her beat.
- Chico Santana This Puerto Rican/Big Apple gumshoe has a mouth on him.
- Cam Richter This good ol' boy is hard to pin down.
- Britten & Brülightly Forget it, Jake, it's Lipton.
- Deets Shanahan Seventy, and still going strong...
- Mei Wang Forget it, Jake. It's China.
- Dave Robicheaux Not a P.I.? Okay, you tell him, cher.
- Quinn Real Woman Lit. With hot flashes.
- Kitty Pangborn & Dex Theroux The wise-cracking secretary returns!
- Lena Jones This cowgirl's got the blues.
- Phyllida Moon The dick of a thousand faces.
- Madeline "Mac: Maclin From tiara to fedora...
- Cassandra Slick Happy as a clam?
- Jayne Keeney Our gal in Bangkok.
- Julie Collins Shamus-nominated specialist in South Dakota skullduggery.
- L.A. Dolls The Golden Girls meet Charlie's Angels.
- Kristin Van Dijk Veronica Mars, as directed by Sam Peckinpah.
- Jane Bunker A marine insurance investigator.
- Jessica Beckett Kissing ass wasn't her thing, even if the ass was Grade A prime.
- Charlie Smith Ray Dennis Steckler does the P.I. thing. Ouch.
- Georgia Davis Don't need a weatherman to see which way this Windy City eye blows.
- Eddie Delaney Call it "knucklehead noir."
- Dakota North Ms. Tree wannabe comes into her own. Finally.
- Stephan Raszer These days, ya gotta specialize.
- Aaron Fox and Moses Reed Cain and Abel who?
- Rest in Pieces: Dashiell Hammett TheThin Man cracks a few cases... ficticiously.
- Rest in Pieces: Raymond Chandler Chandler gets to play detective too..
- Jackson Steeg Hell's Kitchen is Hell.
- Repairman Jack Got a problem? He can fix it.
- Rosalind Riley Marry me, you dick.
- Lucas Hallam A cowboy-turned-stunt man-turned P.I. Shucks.
- Jack McEvoy LA crime reporter and another fine member of the Connellyverse.
- Jane Whitefield A one-person witness protection program.
- Payton Sherwood A Big Apple eye who knows where to step.
- Lydia Chin & Bill Smith Back! At last!
- Surf Ready for the "coolest private eye ever"? Surf's up!
- Dakota North Fashion model turned P.I. Really.
- Johnny Black You can't keep a good bloke down.
- William Monk Suffice it to say that more than bodices are ripped.
- Manny Rupert Your typical Nazi-hunting junkie P.I. And ooh look! excrement!
- Noah Milano You think you got family problems?
- Mark Genevich Wake up! It's a new P.I.!
- Max Raven One of the great one-shot eyes.
- Eddie Perlmutter What is it about Southern Florida?
- Walter James Wade Miller's first P.I.
- Rumpole of the Bailey An updated entry.
- Murray Kirk A high-flying New York eye.
- Chip Gardner One of the better comic book eyes of the fifties.
- Karl Craven "From the way her buttocks looked..."
- Arthur Lyons The Rap Sheet's J. Kingston Pierce offers a heartfelt tribute.
- Al Martillo An old-fashioned kick-ass private jane.
- Mike Danger A long-forgotten comic book eye.
- Joe Mannix The classic TV eye. Accept no substitutes.
- Nick Carter The Master Detective goes P.I.
- Gregory McDonald Cameron Hughes' heartfelt tribute to Fletch's creator.
- Hollywood Offbeat An early private eye show.
- Rick Fallon Pronzini dishes up a new P.I.
- Joe Serpe & Bob Healy The oilmen cometh...
- Carl Van Wagener A P.I. with God on his side.
- Jack Kiley John Harvey's former -footballer eye.
- Johnny Hawke The war evidently didn't belong just to Foyle...
- Nick Carpenter Wings Hauser, P.I. Why ask why?
- Leonid McGill Walter Mosley's newest P.I. Coming soon...
- Darrow Nash He's not Marlowe; the author's not Chandler.
- Mickey Haller Another almost-eye from Michael Connelly
- Vidocq The legendary thieftaker gets someone else to toot his horn for a change.
- Happy Birthday to Us! See what folks have written on our card.
- D.B. Murphy A blacksmith-turned small-town P.I., circa 1925.
- Chris Honeysett A painter and a private eye.
- Jon Kane An appealingly downbeat TV eye.
- Karl Kane Hey, man, smell my finger.
- Charlie Noble Oprah-approved.
- Teddy Ruzak. Highly effective. Not.
- Noakes Ex-con, movie buff and tattoo scholar.
- Augie Boyer Light up, everybody.
- Gerhard Selb Ex-Nazi private eye tries to come to terms with his past. Christ, you know it ain't easy.
- Sheba Baby Pam Grier as the "Queen of the Private Eyes."
- Jack Andrews. Val Kilmer as a P.I. Kill him again.
- Bill Raymond P.I. and town-cleaner-upper.
- Robin Llywelyn Don't Welsh on this bet.
- Vic Daniel A Shell Scott for the nineties?
- Joe Hussey Ex-SAS, current grease monkey and part-time P.I.
- Jack Walsh One of Ed Gorman's greatest creations. Heartache spoken here.
- Eddie Cero & Sal Giambromi Get some Philly soul.
- Claudius Lyon & Arnie Woodbine Estleman roasts Wolfe. Gently.
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As always, we're looking for people to contribute to the site....
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