1. thehappysorceress: Hot Lead & Lightning by Terry Beatty

    thehappysorceress:

    Hot Lead & Lightning by Terry Beatty

  2. Of all the offices…

    Of all the offices…

  3. fantagraphics: The first page of Lost Cat, Jason’s current book in progress (a possible encore presentation).

    fantagraphics:

    The first page of Lost Cat, Jason’s current book in progress (a possible encore presentation).

  4. noirwhale: Robert McGinnis. 

    noirwhale:

    Robert McGinnis. 

    (Source: pulpcovers.com)

  5. theticketthatexploded: Etreinte du Passe

    theticketthatexploded:

    Etreinte du Passe

  6. Richard Castle’s Storm Season

    Richard Castle’s Storm Season

  7. bestcomicscovers: Scene of the Crime #2 (1999)

    bestcomicscovers:

    Scene of the Crime #2 (1999)

  8. operator99: Remind you of anyone you know? Nope. But you know you’re a comics/ P.I. nerd when you instantly recognize this as a snippet from a Ken Shannon story.

    operator99:

    Remind you of anyone you know?

    Nope. But you know you’re a comics/ P.I. nerd when you instantly recognize this as a snippet from a Ken Shannon story.

  9. ninjavsgalaxy:

    Animatrix - Detective story.

  10. honorthebookman: I realize this dates me but I watched the mini-series of Dashiell Hammett’s THE DAIN CURSE when it first aired on TV in 1978. I was kid then, and the plot was a muddle. Enjoyed the book, though. James Coburn played The Continental Op, who is nameless in all the stories but named here. I’d never even heard of this mini-series. Damn. Must find it now.

    honorthebookman:

    I realize this dates me but I watched the mini-series of Dashiell Hammett’s THE DAIN CURSE when it first aired on TV in 1978. I was kid then, and the plot was a muddle. Enjoyed the book, though.

    James Coburn played The Continental Op, who is nameless in all the stories but named here.

    I’d never even heard of this mini-series. Damn. Must find it now.

  11. grantbridgestreet: Pete Morisi.

    grantbridgestreet:

    Pete Morisi.

  12. noirwhale: Chinatown Illustration. by Mark Chiarello.

    noirwhale:

    Chinatown Illustration. by Mark Chiarello.

  13. Satan met a Lady, 1936

    Satan met a Lady, 1936

    (Source: dudesmacdougal)

  14. Johnny Dynamite - Kidnap, by Pete Morisi.

    Johnny Dynamite - Kidnap, by Pete Morisi.

  15. dispatchesfromnoir:

    iconoclantastic replied to your photo: James Garner played Philip Marlowe, but his…
    Rockford was not just a wisecracking detective. He turned the genre upside, by being the anti hardboiled detective. He did not carry a gun, but kept it in the cookie jar. He lied all the to everyone. He avoided fights, because he lost them. Brilliant

    Thanks to iconoclantastic for his excellent point vis à vis The Rockford Files.  Rockford may have been the first (or first widely popular) deconstruction of the hardboiled hero, but he certainly was not the last.  

    One of my favorite anti-hardboiled detectives is Andy Barker.  Starring Andy Richter, Andy Barker, P.I., lovingly spoofs hardboiled detectives.  Richter is Andy Barker, a milquetoast accountant who moves into an office formerly occupied by tough-as-nails (and now damn near senile) private dick Lew Staziak.  With episode titles like “The Big No Sleep” and “Dial M for Laptop,” the series mixed hardboiled elements with Richter’s everyman schtick—to absurd and brilliant effect.

    Unfortunately, this series only ran for six episodes.  Fortunately, you can watch them all on Hulu.  Broadway star Harve Presnell is especially good as the political incorrect Staziak.  Tony Hale (Of Arrested Development fame) is also an asset to the series.