Here is my top twenty. Sorry but I really don't have any
justification for my choices just gut feeling that I'm right
and anyone who disagrees is horribly wrong.
-Jason S. Lewis
20. Bill Crane (series, Jonathan Latimer) 34. Buzz Meeks (BIG
NOWHERE, James Ellroy) 57. Dan Turner (Hollywood Detective
series, Robert Leslie Bellem) 77. Easy Rawlins (series,
Walter Mosley) 78. Ed Clive (NO GOOD FROM A CORPSE, Leigh
Brackett) 96. Frederick J. Frenger, Jr. (MIAMI BLUES, Charles
Willeford) 113. Hoke Moseley (series, Charles Willeford) 147.
Kells (FAST ONE, Paul Cain) 152. Lew Archer (series, Ross
Macdonald) 157. Lou Ford (KILLER INSIDE ME and WILD TOWN, Jim
Thompson) 175. Max Latin (short stories, Norbert Davis) 192.
Mouse (Easy Rawlins series, Walter Mosley) 196. Ned Beaumont
(THE GLASS KEY, Dashiell Hammett) 200. Nick Corey (POP 1280 -
Jim Thompson) 205. Parker (series, Richard Stark) 208. Paul
Pine (Halo series, Howard Browne) 212. Philip Marlowe
(series, Raymond Chandler) 234. Sam Spade (THE MALTESE
FALCON, Dashiell Hammett) Write-In: Satan Hall (Pulp series,
Carroll John Daly) 252. The Continental Op (series, Dashiell
Hammett)
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