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Gritty Gumshoes
Detectives of the Hard-Boiled Variety and Their Creators*
 

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Gritty Gumshoes

Neil Hockaday
created by Thomas Larry Adcock

Wil Hardesty
created by Richard Barre

Matt Scudder
created by Lawrence Block

Dave Robicheaux
created by James Lee Burke

Irene Kelly
created by Jan Burke

Philip Marlow
created by Raymond Chandler

Jack Reacher
created by Lee Child

Myron Bolitar
created by Harlan Coben

Nathan Heller
created by Max Allan Collins

Harry Bosch
created by Michael Connelly

Mario Balzic
created by K. C. Constantine

Kay Scarpetta
created by Patricia Cornwell

Elvis Cole
created by Robert Crais

Cat Marsala
created by Barbara D’Amato

Lincoln Rhyme
created by Jeffery Deaver

Amos Walker
created by Loren D. Estleman

Charlie Resnick
created by John Harvey

John Francis Cuddy
created by J. F. Healy

Andrew Dalziel & Peter Pascoe
created by Reginald Hill

Joe Leaphorn & Jim Chee
created by Tony Hillerman

Colin Harpur & Desmond Iles
created by Bill James

J. P. Beaumont
created by Judith A. Jance

Porfiry Rostnikov
created by Stuart M. Kaminsky

Alex Delaware
created by Jonathan Kellerman

Dismas Hardy
created by John T. Lescroart

Peter Diamond
created by Peter Lovesey

Paul Madriani
created by Steve Martini

Easy Rawlins
created by Walter Mosley

Kathleen Mallory
created by Carol O’Connell

Norah Mulcahaney
created by Lillian O’Donnell

V.I. Warshawski
created by Sara Paretsky

Spenser
created by Robert B. Parker

Nameless
created by Bill Pronzini

Inspector Rebus
created by Ian Rankin

Alan Banks
created by Peter Robinson

Lucas Davenport
created by John Sandford

Brady Coyne
created by William G. Tapply

Alan Gregory
created by Stephen White

Neal Carey
created by Don Winslow

*As suggested by Make Mine A Mystery, Gary Warren Niebuhr
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