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| Wit & Wisdom | History |
| 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 |
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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! Quotations from Chairman Chandler
• When You're Quoted, You'll Take It and Like It!
• I Hear Voices: Raymond Chandler
• 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
• Props & Peeves! Private Eye Stories from A Real-Life P.I. by Colleen Collins
• 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 Hooie

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)
• The 14 Best Private Eye Novels of All Time (2012)
  
  

The Pulps and Short Stories

• The Pulp Era: The Crime & Detective Pulps
• Beyond the Pulps: The Slicks, the Digests and the Mystery Magazines
• The great pulp eyes
• Some Great Short Story Series Featuring Private Eyes, from the Pulps and Beyond
• The Real Black Mask Boys Captured on film!
• Writers Who Were Published in Black Mask
• Writers who published in Dime Detective
• 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 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
  
  

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
  As chosen by Jon L. Breen in 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
• The Big Reads: The Longest Private Eye Books
• The Big Stretch: The Longest Series
• Blasts from the Past: Some Great Publishers of Hardboiled and Detective Fiction
• Some Current Publishers of Hardboiled 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 and Paperback Cover Artists
• Dare to Judge This Book: Some Great Pulp and Paperback Cover Artists
• Dare to Judge This Book: Some More Great Pulp and 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
• 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 Top 100 Hard-Boiled Characters of the Twentieth Century Compiled by the Members of Rara-Avis
• 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 and Creators
  A list of writers profiled on this site.
• Gone Too Soon: They Coulda Been Contenders
• The Rara-Avis Blown Away List of Hard-Boiled Writers
• On Writing: Authors Say the Darnedest Things...
• Rest in Pieces: Dashiell Hammett
• Rest in Pieces: Raymond Chandler
• Rest in Pieces: The Black Mask Boys
• True Detectives: Non-fiction by Real-Life Eyes
• True Detectives: Real-Life Eyes Who've Written P.I. Novels
• True Detective: From the Memoirs of a Private Detective by Dashiel Hammett
• Raymond Chandler's Ten Commandments For the Detective Novel
• Lighten Up, Ray!: Quotations from Chairman Chandler
• Do's and Don'ts for Detective Writers Dealing With Sex:
  By the Editors of Spicy Detective Magazine
• Mistress Christa's Ten Rules to Write Noir
• Thundering Clichés
  By The Fiction Editors of The Thrilling Detective Web Site
• Father Knox's Decalogue: The Ten Rules of (Golden Age) Detective Fiction
• Never Happen: The Real Deal on TV Cops by Charlie Shafer
• Pen Names
• Most P.I.s Created by One Person
• Most Prolific
• Everyone Into The Pool: Books By Multiple Author and 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
• Dashiell Hammett's Introduction to The Maltese Falcon (1934 Edition)
• Mickey Spillane's Fan Letter to Carroll John Daly
• If Mickey Spillane Wrote NANCY...
• Ghost Writers: Have Pen, Will Travel
• They Wrote What? Famous Dabblers in the Form
• Strange Sisters, Indeed: Male P.I. Writers Who Wrote Lesbian Pulp Fiction
• Burning the Midnight Oil Together: P.I. Writers Who Are Married To Each Other
• Anthony Boucher's Proposed Code For Mystery Reviewers
• The Ten Commandments of Book Reviewing
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• The Markets
• Some Current Publishers of Hardboiled and Detective Fiction
• Some Current Publishers of Short Mystery Fiction
  
  

Films

• Thoughts on Private Eye Films
• Fifteen Best Private Eye Movies, as chosen by Max Allan Collins
• Ten Favorite Detective, Hardboiled and Noir Films, as chosen by Brad Lang
• The Blue Murder List: Twenty Other Great P.I. Flicks
• This Turkey For Hire: The Worst P.I. Films
• What Is Noir?
• The Great Noir Films
• Just Passing Through: Memorable Eyes in Non-P.I. Flicks
• 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...
• 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.
• Some Classic Crime Films That Edith Head Designed Costumes For
• 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
  
  

Radio

• The Great Radio Eyes
• Brought to You By...
• The Longest Running
• The Greatest Intros
• From Other Sources...
• Radio Links
• Suggested Radio Bibliography
• Did I Ever Tell Ya the One About... "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
• The TV Timeline: TV Series in Chronological Order
• 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
• Not Quite Ready for Prime Time
• The Turkeys
• Mysterious facts you wouldn't know if it weren't for TV...
• What Were They Thinking? Miscast TV and Film Eyes
• Unsold Pilots of 1993
• Big Scores on a Little Box: Classic Scores from PI TV Shows
• 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
• 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
  
  

Other Media, Other Diversions

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
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HOW GRAPHIC DO YA WANNA GET?

• Eyes Featured in Comic Books, Strips and Graphic Novels
• Comic Books, Strips & Graphic Novels
• See Ya in the Funny Papers!!!-Comic Book Eyes (Poll Results)
• Feature Books Some of the Most Collectible P.I. Comics of All!
• BD PI's
  
  

SEE YA IN THE FUNNY PAPERS

• If Mickey Spillane Wrote NANCY...
• In the Tradition of Hammett, Chandler, Macdonald and Snoopy
• Arlo, Janis & Spenser
• Tracer Bullet
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DRAWN THAT WAY

• Let's Get Animated: Cartoon Eyes
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ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE

• Plays, Operas, Musicals and Other Theatrical Diversions
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GAMES

• Oh, The Games People Play Now
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STAMPS

• Signed, Sealed and Delivered: P.I. Postage Stamps
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THE WEB

• Mystery Links
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GIFTS & COLLECTIBLES

• 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
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• 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
  
  

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? Nick-Named Eyes
• The Big List
• Names and Titles in a Chandleresque Vein
• What's in a Name? The Origins of Some Great Names of Eyes
• Joes to the Left of Me, Joes to the Right... A bunch of dicks named Joe.
• The Three Barney Glines of William Ard
  
  

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 and Other Reality-Challenged Eyes
• Turn It Up To Eleven: Gonzo Eyes
• No Business For a Lady: Female Eyes (P.I. Poll Results)
• 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 and Other Embarrassments
• 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.
• 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
• Jock Eyes
• Ex-Jock Eyes
• My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys: Cowboy Eyes
• Back on the Chain Gang: Eyes Who've Served Time
• Down These Mean Streets with Boughs of Holly...(Christmas Eyes)
  
  

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
• Playboys and Playgurls
• McGee's Little Black Book
• 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
• Gentlemen, Name Your Poison: Dabblers, Inhalers, Occasional Tipplers, and Other Substance-Abusing Eyes
• 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
  
  

The Working Life

• An Eye by Any Other Name
• Amateur Hour: Official Occupations of Some Popular "Eyes by Accident"
• You Better Get Some Insurance, Baby: You're in Good Hands With These Eyes
• Bounty Hunters
• Stop the Presses! Newsroom Eyes
• Death Flags a Cab: Cab-Driving Eyes
• Lawyer Eyes
• Spy/Eyes
• Hotel Dicks
• Pole Positions: Stripper Detectives
• They Get Around: Globetrotting Eyes
• Moonlighting Eyes
• Skip Tracers and 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
  
  

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 and Novels That Deal With the Events of September 11, 2001
  
  

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 and Other Private Eye Team-Ups
  
  

The Work

• Wandering Daughter Jobs and Other Great Missing Persons Cases
• Ah! So That Explains It: P.I.s Solve Famous Mysteries
• Baseball 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

ASIA

• The Eyes of Southeast Asia
• Indian Eyes
• Chinese Eyes
• Japanese Eyes

EUROPE

• Les Flics Privés: French Eyes
• Spanish Eyes, Blue and Otherwise
• European Eyes
• 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: PI'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
• 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 in San Francisco
• Memphis in the Meantime
• New Orleans: O'Neil De Noux's Favorites, and Other Big Easy Eyes
• An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down: Seattle 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 Rocky Mountain Eyes
• Florida Freshly-Squeezed Eyes
• Georgia on My Mind
• Hawaii
• Illinois Eye, As in Illinois
• Kentucky
• 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
• Pennsylvania Six-Five Thousand!
• 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...
• Washington

MEXICO

• Down in Mexico: Mexican Eyes
• The Caribbean, Mon

SOUTH AMERICA

AFRICA

• African Eyes

POLYNESIA

• Eye on an Island: Polynesian Eyes

AUSTRALIA

• They Come From Lands Down Under: Eyes at Work in Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania
  
  

Eyes on the Prize: Awards and Organizations

• The Private Eye Writers of America and 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
• Oscars

Previous 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 Private Eye Goes Global
• 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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