Come Back, Little Shamus

My new column at the Kirkus Reviews site focuses on five “once-interesting series detectives who have gone AWOL from the literary landscape.” I’ll tell you right now that two of them are Jonathan Valin’s private eye, Harry Stoner, and Martha C. Lawrence’s parapsychologist sleuth, Elizabeth Chase, but you’ll have to go to Kirkus to find out the names of the other three.

Click here to enjoy that full article.

And after you’ve read it, why don’t you suggest in the Comments section at the bottom one or two other missing crime-fiction protagonists you would like to see resurrected in print.