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| Sheila York |
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Lauren Atwill, a screenwriter, and private investigator Peter Winslow, based in 1940s Hollywood, California |
| Mignon F. Ballard |
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Miss Dimple
Kilpatrick: a longtime first-grade teacher during World War II,
in Elderberry, Georgia |
| Aileen Baron |
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Lily Sampson: young
American graduate student archeologist, in late 1930s and early 1940s
Jerusalem and Morocco |
| James R. Benn |
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Billy Boyle: Boston cop from a family of Boston cops, on the staff of distant relative, General Eisenhower, during WWII |
| Tony Broadbent |
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Jethro: cat burglar recruited by MI5, in post-WWII London, England |
| Jim Christy |
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Gene Castle: private
investigator in late 1930s to 1945 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Curt Colbert |
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Jake Rossiter: private
investigator, and Miss Jenkins, a “Gal
Friday” in post-World War II Seattle, Washington |
| Max Allan Collins |
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Maggie Starr:
America’s most famous ex-striptease artist, now running her
late husband’s newspaper syndicate, and her stepson Jack, her
VP and chief troubleshooter, in 1948 Manhattan, New York City |
| R. Cameron Cooke |
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Jack Tremain: navy
lieutenant commander on submarines in the South Pacific during World
War II |
| Thomas Rendell Curran |
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Eric Stride:
police inspector with the Newfoundland Constabulary, in late 1940s
St. John’s, Newfoundland, before confederation with Canada |
| Peter Doyle |
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Billy Glasheen: a lurk
merchant and milk bar cowboy, in post-WWII Sydney, Australia |
| Terence Faherty |
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Scott Elliott:
1940s failed actor turned PI, in Hollywood, California |
| Gordon Ferris |
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Douglas Brodie: crime reporter in Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1940s |
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Danny McRae: former spy turned private investigator who suffers from memory problems due to war injuries, in post-WWII London, England |
| Alan Furst |
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Jean Casson: film producer caught up in the Resistance during WWII, in German-occupied Paris, France |
| Tom Gabbay |
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Jack Teller:
in World War II and later as a CIA agent |
| Sarah Gainham |
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Julia Homburg: leading
actress with the Burg Theater in the late 1930s and 1940s, in Vienna,
Austria |
| John Gardner |
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Suzie Montford:
Woman Police Constable in London, England during WWII |
| Hal Glatzer |
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Katy Green: violin
player in the Ultra Belles, an all-girl swing band in 1940s California |
| Robert Goldsborough |
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Steve “Snap” Malek:
police reporter for the Tribune, in 1930s–1940s Chicago, Illinois |
| Robert Gott |
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William Power:
would-be private detective leading a troupe of incompetent
Shakespearean actors during World War II, in Australia |
| Kathryn Miller Haines |
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Rosie Winter:
an actress during WWII, in Manhattan, New York City |
| Jack Higgins |
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Liam Devlin: IRA
hero in 1940s Ireland |
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Dougal Munro,
a brigadier, and Jack Carter, a captain, in 1940s Ireland |
| Jack D. Hunter |
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Bruno Stachel: the
German flying ace from WWI to 1945 |
| J. Robert Janes |
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Jean-Louis St. Cyr,
officer in the French Sûreté Nationale,
and Herman Kohler, a Gestapo agent, based in 1940s Paris, France |
| M.T. Jefferson (H. Paul Jeffers) |
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Kate Fallon:
young woman during World War Two in a small town in Pennsylvania,
in the Homefront mysteries |
| Cathie John |
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Nick Cavanaugh: Navy
vet and Fleet Boxing Champ in 1940s Newport, Kentucky |
| Stuart Kaminsky |
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Toby Peters: 1940s Hollywood PI in Los Angeles, California |
| Philip Kerr |
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Bernie Gunther:
German private eye who hates the Nazis, in Berlin, Germany, 1936-47 |
| Ken Kuhlken |
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Tom Hickey: private
investigator, in California and Nevada, and the next generation,
Clifford Hickey |
| John Lawton |
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Frederick Troy:
police sergeant and later Chief Inspector, from the late 1940s
to the 1960s, in London, England |
| Elmore Leonard |
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Carl Webster: US
Marshall in the 1930s and 1940s |
| Elmore Leonard |
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Carl Webster: US
Marshall in the 1930s and 1940s |
| Margit Liesche |
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Pucci Lewis: US
Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) and undercover agent in World
War II |
| Michael Lister |
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Jimmy Riley, working
as a private detective in 1940s Panama City, Florida, after losing
an arm while on the police force |
| Susan Elia MacNeal |
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Maggie Hope: spy for MI-5 in 1940s London, England |
| Thomas Maxwell (Thomas Gifford) |
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Lew Cassidy:
former pro football player, now a private detective, in 1940s New
York City |
| Frank McAuliffe |
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Augustus Mandrell:
of the one-man professional killer firm Mandrell, Ltd., during and
after WWII |
| Craig McDonald |
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Hector Lassiter:
legendary crime novelist who writes what he lives and lives what
he writes, in the 1930s-1950s |
| Geoffrey McGeachin |
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Charlie Berlin:
ex-bomber pilot and POW in World War II, rejoining the police force
in 1947 Victoria, Australia |
| Amy Patricia Meade |
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Rose Doyle Keefe: working to support her family in a shipyard in 1942 New York City, in the Rosie the Riveter series |
| Aly Monroe |
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Peter Cotton: British
economic warfare agent in the mid to late 1940s |
| Walter Mosley |
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Easy Rawlins: black
WWII veteran living in 1940s–1950s Los Angeles, California |
| Eddie Muller |
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Billy
Nichols: boxing columnist for the Inquirer newspaper, in late
1940s San Francisco, California |
| Richard Parrish |
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Joshua Rabb: Jewish
lawyer in late 1940s and early 1950s working with the Bureau of Indian
Affairs and privately, in Tucson, Arizona |
| Ben Pastor |
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Martin
Bora: anti-Nazi Anglo-German officer in World War II Europe |
| Jon Redfern |
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Inspector Owen Endersby, of the recently formed London Detective Police, in early 1840s London, England |
| Sheldon Russell |
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Hook Runyon: railroad
security agent for the Santa Fe Railroad in the mid-1940s |
| Harold Schechter |
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Edgar Allan Poe:
in the 1830s-1840s, in Baltimore, Maryland, New York City, and Massachusetts |
| Sandra Scoppettone |
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Faye Quick:
private investigator in 1940s New York City |
| Sarah R. Shaber |
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Louise Pearlie:
a young widow working as a clerk for the OSS, in 1942 Washington,
DC |
| Diane K. Shah |
| • |
Paris Chandler: wealthy
young widow, gossip reporter, and sleuth, in 1947 Los Angeles, California |
| Kelli Stanley |
| • |
Miranda Corbie:
private investigator, Spanish Civil War nurse, and ex-escort, in
1940s San Francisco, California |
| Donald Thomas |
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Sonny Tarrant: gangster
in 1930s-1940s London, England |
| Jo Walton |
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Peter Carmichael: Scotland
Yard inspector, in an alternative history starting in 1949 Britain,
where WWII ended with a truce in 1941 |
| Stanley Gordon West |
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Cal Grant and high school friends in the late 1940s, in St. Paul
and Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Laura Wilson |
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Ted Stratton: detective
inspector in 1940s London, England |
| Edward Wright |
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John Ray Horn: former B-movie cowboy star and ex-con turned debt-collector,
in 1940s Los Angeles, California |
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