The Return Of The Private Eye

March, 2000

The Return of the Private EyeHe's the coolest operator in books and movies. No wonder the dick is backThat all-American hero. the private eye, arrived with guns blazing in the pages of pulp magazines nearly 80 years ago. From the Twenties to the early Forties, he fought killers, corrupters and saboteurs, homegrown and imported. He sipped ocktails and swung to cool jazz through the post-war Fifties. hunted runaways, battled drug dealers and danced the Watusi in the Sixties and then was rudely sho...