If we're going to get into this, here's a list I compiled a
while back of "defective detectives," both past and present,
cribbed from my site.
JOE BINNEY by Jack Livingston (deaf) BEN BRYN by Russell Gray
(polio victim, unable to walk) LIONEL ESSROG by Jonathan
Lethem (Tourette's Syndrome) GINNY FISTOULARI by Reed
Stephens (missing hand) DAN FORTUNE by Michael Collins
(missing an arm) JOE GEE by Wyatt Blassingame (insomnia) DAN
GREEN by Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty (Ms. Tree's young
op is missing a hand) SID HALLEy by Dick Francis (missing a
hand) DAN HOLDEN by Leon Bryne (deaf) JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
JANTARRO by Simon Ritchie (missing an arm) CALVIN KANE by
Russell Gray (the "Crab Detective," unable to walk due to his
deformed body) SLOT MACHINE KELLY by Dennis Lynds (missing an
arm) MIKE LONGSTREET (blind) CAPTAIN DUNCAN MACLAIN by
Baynard Kendrick (blind) MONGO by George C. Chesbro (dwarf)
MANVILLE MOON by Richard Deming (missing a leg) LIN MELCHAN
by Warren Lucas (overly-heightened sense of hearing) NAT
PERRY by Edith and Ejler Jacobson (hemophiliac) PETER QUEST
by John Kobler (glaucoma, resulting in periodic blindness)
MARK SABER (missing an arm) HAROLD SCHILLMAN by Eric
Bercovici (failed suicide) SEEKAY by Paul Ernst (no face!)
STEVE SILK by James Brendan O'Sullivan (missing a lung)
NICHOLAS STREET by Nat Schachner (amnesia) SAMUEL CLEMENS
TUCKER by Jerry Allen (missing a foot and a testicle) ZEN
MOSES by Elizabeth Cosin (missing a lung, due to
cancer)
The list is at
http://www.colba.net/~kvnsmith/thrillingdetective/trivia/triv107.html,
along with the relative links to the individual eyes, and
yeah, I know it's not complete. Feel free to contact me
privately with more suggestions.
And sorry for the length. Would people just prefer I include
the URL next time? Kevin Burton Smith The Thrilling Detective
Web Site http://www.colba.net/~kvnsmith/thrillingdetective/
This month: New fiction by Don McGregor and Mark Coggins,
plus the Thrillies!
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