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Cliff Hardy is the protagonist in a series of hardboiled detective fiction/crime fiction novels and stories by Australian author Peter Corris. Cliff Hardy is a private eye based from Sydney, Australia. He’s described as tall and in good shape. He’s been a boxer, soldier, lumberjack and an insurance investigator. He carries a Smith & Wesson […]

Black is a series of hardboiled noir detective mystery novels by Russell Blake. The title character of the series, Artemus Black, is a Hollywood private investigator who can’t catch a break. He starts off the series with an assistant who mocks him, a fat cat that hates him, no romance in his life to speak […]

Stanley Hastings is the protagonist in a series of hardboiled mystery novels by American novelist Parnell Hall. Stanley Hastings is just as tough as he sounds – completely inept, somewhat of a coward and reluctantly working as a private investigator who works for a lawyer in New York City. Stanley is in his 40s and […]

Moe Prager is the main character in a series of hardboiled detective novels by American author Reed Farrel Coleman. Prager is a divorced ex-cop who had to retire from the force following a knee injury. He now has to get his personal life back in order and deal with healing his strained relationship with his […]

Richard K. Morgan is an English author of science fiction and fantasy novels. He is best known for his Takeshi Kovacs series, which mixes post-cyberpunk and hardboiled detective fiction. He has won the Philip K. Dick Award for Altered Carbon (his debut novel), the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Black Man and the John W. […]