"Pinkerton in a Season 2 episode of ""Drunk History"". Pinkerton is also a recurring character in the 2014 series ""The Pinkertons"", played by Angus Macfadyen. Pinkerton is also portrayed in an episode of ""The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams"", by Don Galloway (1937-2009), and in the 1994 American biographical western film ""Frank and Jesse"" by William Atherton. In but in these cases, as in the others, he seems to be portrayed with an American accent, although he was Scottish by birth, and may still have retained his Scots accent. Hardboiled crime fiction writer Dashiell Hammett was employed by the"
"adapted into two films: 2007 and 2008 German based ""Der Audio Verlag"" published Nick Knatterton radio dramas in German. Nick Knatterton Nick Knatterton is the name of a West German comic strip and the name of its main character, a private detective. The strip was drawn by (1913–1999) from 1950 to 1959. It was initially released in the German magazine Quick. The visual style of the comics is cartoony, but still realistic enough for the comic to be taken as a (at least mostly) serious detective comic. It is characterised by its unique style of humour, most of which derives"
"Nick Knatterton Nick Knatterton is the name of a West German comic strip and the name of its main character, a private detective. The strip was drawn by (1913–1999) from 1950 to 1959. It was initially released in the German magazine Quick. The visual style of the comics is cartoony, but still realistic enough for the comic to be taken as a (at least mostly) serious detective comic. It is characterised by its unique style of humour, most of which derives from allusions to current political affairs in the Federal Republic of Germany of the 1950s. The name Nick Knatterton"
"agency's later reputation for anti-labor activities, Pinkerton himself was heavily involved in pro-labor politics as a young man. Though Pinkerton considered himself pro-labor, he opposed strikes and distrusted labor unions. Allan Pinkerton was so famous that for decades after his death, his surname was a slang term for a private eye. The ""Mr. Pinkerton"" novels, by American mystery writer Zenith Jones Brown (under the pseudonym David Frome), were about Welsh-born amateur detective Evan Pinkerton and may have been inspired by the slang term. Pinkerton produced numerous popular detective books, ostensibly based on his own exploits and those of his agents."
"The Poisoned Chocolates Case The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929) is a detective novel by Anthony Berkeley set in 1920s London in which a group of armchair detectives, who have founded the ""Crimes Circle"", formulate theories on a recent murder case Scotland Yard has been unable to solve. Each of the six members, including their president, Berkeley's amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham, arrives at an altogether different solution as to the motive and the identity of the perpetrator, and also applies different methods of detection (basically deductive or inductive or a combination of both). Completely devoid of brutality but containing a lot"
"never married. He returned to Saratoga Springs in the 1960s and lived there until his death in 1976. Sullivan was a peripheral member of the famous Algonquin Round Table. ""Frank Sullivan Place"", formerly High Street, is named for him in Saratoga Springs, New York. It forms the border of the Saratoga Racecourse property near the track clubhouse. He is credited with the line, ""This is either a forgery or a damned clever original!"". Frank Sullivan (writer) Frank Sullivan (September 22, 1892 - February 19, 1976) was an American humorist, best remembered for creating the character Mr. Arbuthnot the Cliche Expert."
"in the 1968 film and its 1975 sequel, ""Funny Lady"". Nicky Arnstein Julius Wilford ""Nicky"" Arnstein (born Arndstein; July 1, 1879October 2, 1965) was an American professional gambler and con artist. He was known primarily as Julius Arnold, but among his aliases were ""Jules Arndtsteyn"", ""Nick Arnold,"" ""Nicholas Arnold"", ""Wallace Ames"", ""John Adams"", and ""J. Willard Adair"". He was best known as the second husband of entertainer Fanny Brice. Arnstein was born Julius Arndstein in Berlin, German Empire. His father, Moses Arndstein, was a German Jew from Berlin who fought in the Franco-Prussian War. His mother, born Thekla van Shaw,"
"are extravagant). Agatha Christie published a total of 14 short stories featuring Parker Pyne. Of these, the first dozen initially appeared in various US/UK magazines and were later collected into the 1934 anthology ""Parker Pyne Investigates"". The remaining two tales were originally created as vehicles for her most famous sleuth, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, but Christie reworked these into Pyne cases before their inclusion in the 1939 short story collection ""The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories"". Within his work, Pyne himself always disclaimed the role of hard-core detective, and his literary domain was usually relegated to light-hearted short stories rather"
"Ofsteds: ""Rotten Lies"" (1995), ""Nasty Breaks"" (1997), ""Where have all the Birdies Gone?"" (2004), and ""On the Fringe"" (2005). In between they wrote short stories, one of which, ""Nice Gorilla,"" won the Agatha Award for best short story of the year in 1992. In 1996, they co-authored the ""Cumberland Cup Mystery Game,"" the first plot for Time Warner Electronic Publishing's Modus Operandi. Charlotte Elkins Charlotte Elkins (born July 4, 1948) is an American author who teamed with her husband, writer Aaron Elkins, to write a series of mystery novels about Lee Ofsted, a struggling female professional golfer. Elkins was born"
"for BBC Radio 4, ""Bump in the Night"" (1971) and ""Charity begins at Home"" (1992). Colin Watson (writer) Colin Watson (1920–1983) was a British writer of detective fiction and the creator of characters such as Inspector Purbright and Lucilla Teatime. He is most famous for the twelve Flaxborough novels, typified by their comic and dry wit and set in a fictional small town in England which is closely based on Boston, Lincolnshire. He worked as a journalist in Lincolnshire and the characters in his books are said to be highly recognisable caricatures of people he encountered in his work. His"
"as a regular panelist on the weekly BBC radio program ""The Guilty Party"" where a crime play was dramatized, then the panelists would cross-examine the characters in an effort to figure out who was guilty of the crime. From the 1950s to the time of his death in 1976, Buckley lived in a reportedly haunted historical house in King's Lynn, Norfolk, which is known as The Exorcist's house. Frederick Robert Buckley Frederick Robert Buckley (1896–1976) was an English writer. He wrote more than 200 short stories for pulp magazines between 1918 and 1953. He was born on 20 December 1896"
"story “Tishomingo Blues” from 2002 and “Freaky Deaky” from 1988 about ex-hippie criminals. There are some of his characters parts of different novels like Hollywood mobster Chili Palmer, bank robber Jack Foley or the both U. S. Marshals Carl Webster and Raylan Givens. His crime books were published amongst others by Fawcett Publications, Bantam Books and Dell Publishing. In the 80s his publisher was Arbor House, later also William Morrow & Company as an imprint of HarperCollins. There are different reprints from his novels, so in the 2000s from Weidenfeld & Nicolson. At the time of his death he had"
"a young man gradually ripens into a detective under the tutelage of his uncle, an ex–private eye now working as a carnival concessionaire. Many of his books make use of the threat of the supernatural or occult before the ""straight"" explanation at the end. For example, ""Night of the Jabberwock"" is a humorous narrative of an extraordinary day in the life of a small-town newspaper editor. ""The Screaming Mimi"" (which became a 1958 movie starring Anita Ekberg and Gypsy Rose Lee, and directed by Gerd Oswald, who also directed the ""Fun and Games"" episode of ""The Outer Limits"", the plot"
"discarded mistresses; and some more. At the very end of the novel, however, there is no doubt as to the identity of the perpetrator. The Poisoned Chocolates Case The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929) is a detective novel by Anthony Berkeley set in 1920s London in which a group of armchair detectives, who have founded the ""Crimes Circle"", formulate theories on a recent murder case Scotland Yard has been unable to solve. Each of the six members, including their president, Berkeley's amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham, arrives at an altogether different solution as to the motive and the identity of the perpetrator,"
"2016 with five others by journalist/writer Ace Atkins. Parker's ""Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch"" series has been continued by actor and screenwriter Robert Knott. with three novels published through 2016. The ""Sunny Randall"" series received a 7th installment titled ""Blood Feud"" on November 27th, 2018. Written by long time friend of Parker, sports journalist, and bestselling author, Mike Lupica. ""Surrogate""' (1991)"" A short story published in the crime anthology ""New Crimes 3"" Robert B. Parker Robert Brown Parker (September 17, 1932 – January 18, 2010) was an American writer of fiction, primarily of the mystery/detective genre. His most famous works"
"the early life of one of those heroes: Dashiell Hammett, the originator of the hard-boiled crime novel. As a Pinkerton Agency detective, Hammett investigated the rape and manslaughter case against early Hollywood star Roscoe Arbuckle, one of the most sensational trials of the 20th Century. Atkins' 2010 novel ""Infamous"" is based on the 1933 Charles Urschel kidnapping and subsequent misadventures of the gangster spouses George ""Machine Gun"" and Kathryn Kelly. In 2011 Atkins was selected by the estate of Robert B. Parker to take over writing the Spenser series of novels. ""The Boston Globe"" wrote that while some people might"
"Pinkerton agency before becoming an author, and his experiences influenced the character of the Continental Op who was a Continental Detective Agency operative, similar to the Pinkertons. Allan Pinkerton Allan J. Pinkerton (25 August 1819 – 1 July 1884) was a Scottish American detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. Allan Pinkerton was born in Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland, to William Pinkerton and his wife, Isobel McQueen, on August 25, 1819. He left school at the age of 10 after his father's death. Pinkerton read voraciously and was largely self-educated. A cooper by trade, Pinkerton was"
"with his wife Christine. Bernstein was portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the film version of ""All the President's Men"", and by Bruce McCulloch in the 1999 comedy film ""Dick"". Carl Bernstein Carl Bernstein ( ; born February 14, 1944) is an American investigative journalist and author. While a young reporter for ""The Washington Post"" in 1972, Bernstein was teamed up with Bob Woodward; the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal. These scandals led to numerous government investigations and the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon. The work of Woodward and Bernstein was called ""maybe"
"the Ripper"" Whitechapel murders. The Criminologist (magazine) The Criminologist was a crime magazine, published quarterly in the United Kingdom between 1967 and 1998. It was edited by writer Nigel Morland, who worked as a crime journalist and also as a writer of crime fiction, creating the detective ""Palmyra Pym"" in 1935. The Criminologist is known for publishing an article in its November 1970 issue by Thomas Stowell titled ""Jack the Ripper - A solution?"" The article was the original source for the Jack the Ripper royal conspiracy theories by appearing to implicate Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale,"
"John Wainwright (author) John William Wainwright (25 February 1921 – September 1995), was a British crime novelist and author of 83 books, four of which have been published under the pen name Jack Ripley. He also wrote some short stories (mostly uncollected in book format), 7 radio plays, and an indefinite amount of magazine articles and newspaper columns. Wainwright was born in Hunslet, an area of inner-city south Leeds, in 1921. He left school at fifteen and served as a rear gunner in Lancaster bombers during the Second World War. In 1947 he joined the West Riding Constabulary as a"
"and filmmaker Lee Ford. Sometime in 1990 he moved into working full-time as an artist working mainly for ""Judge Dredd Megazine"". Ormston's dark, thick paints were seen in action on the ""Judge Dredd"" strip on numerous occasions, most notably in the ""Judgement Day"" and ""Raptaur"" storylines. For the ""Judge Dredd Megazine"" Ormston also created, with Si Spencer, the comedy strip ""Harke & Burr"", a twist on the notorious grave robbers Burke and Hare. He drew part of """" story arc in Neil Gaiman's ""The Sandman"" series. His work can also be seen in the ""Predator"" comics for Dark Horse, Lucifer"
"agency served as a plot device to involve the trio in a wide variety of stories. These straddled the genres of mystery, adventure, and supernatural horror, and the plotlines often took them to exotic locales. Over the years, Jack was played by Michael Raffetto, Russell Thorson, Jay Novello, Jim Bannon, and John McIntire. Doc was played by Barton Yarborough and Jim Boles. Reggie was portrayed by Walter Paterson and Tony Randall. The agency's secretary, Jerry Booker, was played by Gloria Blondell. After Paterson committed suicide in 1942, his friend Morse could not bear to recast the role and Reggie was"
"for ten years. The undoubted highlight of Blake's 21-year run in ""Knockout"" was a 14-part 1949 strip drawn by Blake's greatest illustrator Eric Parker, entitled ""The Secret of Monte Cristo"". This was Parker's only contribution to Blake's comic strip adventures. There was one ""Super Detective Library"" story about Blake: issue 68 (published November 1955), featuring a comic strip entitled ""Sexton Blake's Diamond Hunt"". Four hardbacks designed for the younger market were published by Dean & Son Ltd during 1968 (the third of these, ""Raffles' Crime in Gibraltar"", portrayed Blake contending with A. J. Raffles, E.W. Hornung's amateur cracksman). A final"
"John Pinkerton John Pinkerton (17 February 1758 – 10 March 1826) was a Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, author, numismatist, historian, and early advocate of Germanic racial supremacy theory. He was born in Edinburgh, as one of three sons to James Pinkerton. He lived in the neighbourhood of that city for some of his earliest childhood years, but later moved to Lanark. His studious youth brought him extensive knowledge of the Classics, and it is known that in his childhood years he enjoyed translating Roman authors such as Livy. He moved on to Edinburgh University, and after graduating, remained in the city"
"as Bob Monkhouse, Griff Rhys Jones, Rik Mayall, Jack Dee, Bill Bailey, John Bird and Nigel Planer; who are mainly associated with comedy, but who gave straight performances. The first two series were broadcast in the U.S. on a number of PBS stations, while the remainder aired on BBC America. David Renwick wanted to write a detective series that dealt with the actual work of detection rather than action, which most crime dramas appeared to focus on at the time. Also, whereas most of these were about ""who did it"" (""Inspector Morse"" or ""Taggart"") and ""why it was done"" (""Cracker""),"
"he almost takes the life of someone who knows too much. Cast notes: The film was based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett, released in January 1934. Hammett's novel drew on his experiences as a union-busting Pinkerton detective in Butte, Montana. Hammett based Nick and Nora's banter upon his rocky on-again, off-again relationship with playwright Lillian Hellman. MGM paid Hammett $21,000 for the screen rights to the novel. The screenplay was written by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, who had been married for three years. Director W.S. Van Dyke encouraged them to use Hammett's writing as"
"mystery novels, ""The Actor's Guide to Murder"", ""The Actor's Guide to Adultery"", ""The Actor's Guide to Greed"" and ""Fingerprints and Facelifts"". His book ""The Actor's Guide to Greed"" was a Lambda Literary Award nominee in the Gay Mystery category at the 2006 Lambda Literary Awards. In 2012, he was one of the writers, creators and stars of the comedy mystery web series ""Where the Bears Are"". Rick Copp Rick Copp (born August 20, 1964) is an American television writer, story editor, producer and occasional actor. He was executive story editor for 11 episodes and writer for two episodes of the"
"creative writing, drama coach and camp counselor. Aside from fiction, his publishing work also includes working as a movie critic, magazine editor. His best-known work in the hardboiled genre is Jack Hagee detective series and his supernatural detective Teddy London series, as well as many other short stories and novels featuring many characters from Lovecraftian fiction and """", as well as his own. Henderson wrote comic books for such companies as Marvel, Eternity, Tekno Comix, Moonstone Books, and Valiant, most notably on Tekno's ""Neil Gaiman's Lady Justice"" and Moonstone's adaptations. Henderson also contributed to the ""SFWA Bulletin"", the official publication"
"Antony Johnston Antony Johnston (born 25 August 1972) is a British writer of comics, video games, and novels. He is known for the post apocalyptic comic series ""Wasteland"", the graphic novel ""The Coldest City"" (adapted for film as ""Atomic Blonde""), and his work on several Image Comics series. Despite an early interest in comics and role-playing games, Johnston started his career as a graphic designer. He began his writing career with work for role-playing magazines before the Mark Salisbury-edited ""Writers on Comic Scriptwriting"" (Titan Books, 1999) rekindled his interest in comics. Drawing on his design skills, he now designs many"
"during 1990, when legal disagreements between Random House and the heirs of the Arthur estate could not be resolved. By 2005, the disagreements were still not settled. At least eleven novels were published in the ""CrimeBusters"" series, which was initiated by one of the series' authors, William Arden, pseudonym of Dennis Lynds, who wrote the Dan Fortune mystery series for adults by the pseudonym Michael Collins. The other authors were: H. William Stine and wife Megan Stine, G.H. Stone (Gayle Lynds), William MacCay, Marc Brandel and Peter Lerangis. Random House has reprinted several of the original books as two paperback"
"spy, Elizabeth Van Lew, visited Hattie Lawton, but it is unclear whether Van Lew was aware of the real identity of ""Mrs. Timothy Webster"". Following her release from prison, nothing is known regarding Lawton's post-war years or death. Hattie Lawton Hattie Lawton, also known as Hattie H. Lawton, Hattie Lewis, and Hattie Lewis Lawton was an American detective, who worked for Allan Pinkerton, of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Lawton may have been born around 1837, although, most details of her life, before and after the American Civil War, are unknown. ""[Hattie] Lawton was part of Pinkerton's Female Detective Bureau, formed"
"of which have been collected in book form. Dennis Wheatley's occult detective was Neils Orsen. Though never large, the occult detective subgenre grew to include such writers as Seabury Quinn (with his character Jules de Grandin); Manly Wade Wellman, whose character John Thunstone investigated occult events through short stories in the pulps, collected in ""The Third Cry to Legba and Other Invocations"" (2000) and in the novels ""What Dreams May Come"" (1983) and ""The School of Darkness"" (1985); and ""Jack Mann"" (E. C. Vivian), who chronicled the adventure of his occult detective Gregory Gordon George Green, known as ""Gees"", in"
"continually in print ever since. In addition to underground and college weekly newspapers, new adventures appeared in magazines such as ""Playboy"", ""High Times"", and ""Rip Off Comix""; these too were collected in comic book form. Shelton continued to write the series until 1992, in collaboration with Dave Sheridan (1974–1982) and Paul Mavrides (since 1978). The works enjoy a sizable cult following and the magazines are widely available in comic stores. The majority of the comic books consist of one or more multi-page stories together with a number of one-page strips. Many of the latter have a one-row skit featuring Fat"