This is a partial list of fictional private investigators — also known as private eyes or PI s — who have appeared in various works of literature, film, television, and games. References ^ "The Missing Activist". ^ Dead Beat ^ P. I. Joe Caneili, Discretion Assuree ^ "A Trouble of Fools (A Carlotta Carlyle Mystery #1)". ^ The Tenth Clew Cuts Through Bone by Alaric Hunt: This book is the Winner of the PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Competition - At first, Rachel Vasquez found her new job working for private detective Clayton Guthrie promising. He got her a gun and a license and took her to target practice.
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THE FOURTEEN In descending order… The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett ( Sam Spade) The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler ( Philip Marlowe) Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler ( Philip Marlowe) Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley ( Easy Rawlins) L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais ( Elvis Cole) The 12 best private detectives in crime fiction By crimefictionlover 9 December, 2013 6 Mins read 28 21226 0 Recently, we brought you The PI Case Files, giving you a peek inside the Crime Fiction Lover filing cabinet at some notes we've been compiling on private detectives from across the genre. Every Dead Thing by John Connolly First in the Charlie Parker series. From Library Journal: "Connolly's debut novel is the story of cop turned private investigator Charlie "Bird" Parker's hunt for the murderer of his wife and child, a serial killer whose modus operandi is the surgical dissection of his live victims. Peter Swanson (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1 time as private-eye-novels) avg rating 4.01 — 175,798 ratings — published 2015 Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4) by Anthony Horowitz (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1 time as private-eye-novels)
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Moe Prager by Reed Farrel Coleman. Poetic, brutal, and hard-boiled with a heart, the Moe Prager series is a master's class in P.I. fiction, with a unique and memorable star in Moe, the ex-cop-turned-private eye. Unlike many of his P.I. ancestors, Moe isn't a loner, alcoholic former homicide detective. It laid out exactly the type of man best suited to solve the most noir of crimes: a man both noble and removed from society, possessed of his own sense of justice and able to hold himself above the corruption of society by sheer virtue of his exemplary nature, even as he gives in to his fatal flaws—and boy, would there be fatal flaws a plenty. This book has been written for the middle grade reader who enjoys mysteries, crime fiction and puzzles. Worcester Glendenis is a 12-year-old wannabe private detective. He models himself on his hero, the fictional private eye Philip Marlowe, of course without the booze, cigarettes and violence. After all, he is only twelve. From The Reader's Guide to the Private Eye Novel by Gary Warren Niebuhr. Compiled by Gary Warren Niebuhr, one of the true experts in the genre and a guy at least as obsessed as I am about all things P.I., The Reader's Guide to the Private Eye Novel (1993), is a whopper of a book, and an absolutely essential reference to the genre.. It offers entries on over a thousand titles by more than.
Private Eye Magazine (No.56) Fine Soft cover (1964) 1st Edition. The
While he lived out his days in a near-catatonic state, the world moved on without him. In 1959, private investigator Harry Angel is hired to track Johnny down by the mysterious Louis Cyphre. Louis has a contract with Johnny that can only be paid upon the singer's death, and he's tired of waiting. Hardboiled crime novels are realistic and usually feature a tough private eye. The stories are generally set in the United States and the protagonists are usually solitary, with a strong moral code. This list includes some of the most significant hardboiled novels from the twentieth century.
The November 1998 P.I. Poll. The private eye novel has been a mainstay of the mystery genre forever, it seems. Think of all the classic private eye series, from Chandler's Philip Marlowe and Jonathan Latimer's Bill Crane to Robert B. Parker's Spenser or Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone.. And yet, and yet, and yet… Showing 1-50 of 101 Sleeping Dog (Kindle Edition) by Dick Lochte (shelved 1 time as private-eye-novel) avg rating 3.78 — 361 ratings — published 1985 Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars A Reader's Guide to the American Novel of Detection (Reader's Guides to Mystery Novels) by Marvin Lachman
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The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett. What It's About: From "a master of the detective novel [and] one hell of a writer" ( The Boston Globe) comes a coolly glittering gem of detective fiction that has haunted three generations of readers. A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. Are private eye novels losing their popularity? Is there anything out there living up to the great shamus books of old? For this Top Ten, The Hound, a big fan of Marlowe, Spade and Archer, takes a look at the best of the contemporary US offerings and discovers that the genre is in good hands.
