Sentences with phrase «private eye series»

You can name the Honolulu private eye series on one hand.

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In this made - for - TV movie spun off from the series Spenser: For Hire, Robert Urich returns as private eye Spenser.

Adapted from author Kate Brian's best - selling series of novels, Private follows wide - eyed college freshman Reed Brennan during her first semester at Easton Academy, an esteemed private college where nothing is as itPrivate follows wide - eyed college freshman Reed Brennan during her first semester at Easton Academy, an esteemed private college where nothing is as itprivate college where nothing is as it seems.

And in 1994, his voice could be heard each week on the USA cable network as the web - footed, sex - obsessed private eye hero of the animated cartoon series Duckman.

On TV, Lonny Chapman starred as private eye Jeff Prior in the 1958 summer - replacement series The Investigator, and was featured as another detective, Frank Malloy, in the 1965 courtroom weekly For the People (1965).

The film's originality stems from a private eye named Visser (Walsh) whose double cross leads to a series of misunderstandings and terror stricken scenes between the lovers as they try to outsmart the gumshoe to ensure their own survival.

Even the role that brought him to prominence, Remington Steele, the faux private eye from the television series of the same name, was a bit of a rogue.

Sterling Archer is going from professional spy to private eye in the new season of FXX's animated comedy series.

The Thin Man comedies, which follow the sleuthing, smart - talking private eye Nick and his heiress wife Nora, remain one of the enduring delights of vintage Hollywood, but the Academy saw fit to nominate only one half of the double - act (William Powell) that made the series great.

Wide - eyed and whacked out on the funny weed, Doc Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) is a mind - fried private eye from sunny Southern California trying to make sense of a series of incidents involving, in no particular order: a spacey former girlfriend (Katherine Waterston); a missing real - estate mogul (Eric Roberts); a deceased saxophonist who apparently is not, in fact, deceased (Owen Wilson); a coke - snorting dentist with a libido in overdrive (Martin Short); a porno - parlor proprietress (Hong Chau); a bullying cop with hair cropped in a fearsome flattop (Josh Brolin); a cultlike rehab center; risqué neckties; a big, fat heroin stash; a mysterious sailboat and a torture chamber.

Rees is also developing an untitled HBO half - hour series with Viola Davis, which would involve corruption at a private school, as seen through the headmaster's eyes.

He began writing for Dick Powell's radio private - eye series Richard Diamond in 1946, and turned writer - producer on two low - budget Westerns, Panhandle (1948) and Stampede (1949), while also acting in them; they marked his last times in front of the camera.

A kind of secret handshake show for true television aficionados, the series stars Donal Logue and Michael Raymond - James as two anything but by the book private eyes who get in way over their heads while investigating a slew of unsavory miscreants in Ocean Beach, San Diego, California.

My private - eye mystery - suspense series books staring Tony Avanti are always about more than just solving a crime.

Television gave us Tracey Steele and Tom Lopaka in «Hawaiian Eye,» and Thomas Magnum in «Magnum, P.I.» The list of Hawaiian private eye novel series begins and ends with Charles Kneif's John Caine.

Even before Baldacci put pen to paper (well, you know what I mean) to write this latest book in his popular series about two Washingto, DC private eyes, he faced the challenge that mystery and thriller fans tend to be a hard demographic to impress.

In May of this year he'll release his first self - published novel since 2011, Pulped, which uses Simeon Grist, the private - eye hero of his six - book series in the 1990s, to explore what a fictional detective does when he discovers that the life he thought he's been leaving is actually the product of someone else's imagination.

Written by Matt D. Wilson and drawn by Kevin Warren, the series kicked off in January and saw the private eye quickly get drawn into a mystery filled with goons, guns, gals and, well, gears.

The first volumes in the series lean toward the detective side of the blend, the later ones more to the magical, but this series is clearly the gold standard for urban fantasy as seen through the conventions of the private - eye genre.

EYES IN THE WOODS The smartest, and perhaps most sarcastic, private investigator in Atlanta has lost none of her spunk in the third installment of Amanda Kyle Williams» Keye Street series.