But it wasn’t the outlandish, albeit predictable, plots or the cardboard characters that made the stories so fun, although some of the methods of murder were certainly pretty high on the Quirk-O-Meter. His cases seemed to always involve the film world, and its neverending cast of tyranical film directors, jealous husbands, amorous starlets, treacherous stuntmen and back-stabbing co-stars. Turner’s a “private skulk,” an “orb for hire,” worked the weird and wacky (and surprisingly violent) streets of Hollywood. Was he was trying to parody the hard-boiled detective genre barely ten years after its birth or (and this is even scarier) was he simply, completely unaware of how funny and original his style was? In his prime, it was said that Bellem was pumping out a million words annually, and selling every single one of them to the pulps.īut he was more than merely prolific–he was a riot. You only have to read the innumerable letters and essays by high-faluting pen-pushers like Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald to know that these men (commonly referred to, almost in awe, as “The Big Three” of detective fiction) took themselves very seriously indeed.īut with Robert Leslie Bellem (1902-1968), the creator of legendary Hollywood dick, the one and only DAN TURNER, it’s hard to know if he was serious or not, since he seemed to effortlessly churn out so much damn stuff (it’s estimated he wrote over 3000 pulp stories, with Turner starring in at least 300 of them, not to mention 60 or 70 comic book stories). He’s also proven to be quite fertile ground for writers of all kinds, from brain-dead hacks pounding out the most clichéd and purplish of prose just to pay the rent, to those who sweated and struggled over every single comma, taking themselves very, very seriously. The hard-boiled private eye, born in the low-rent pages of the pulps way back in twenties, has become a remarkably resilient mainstay of American popular culture, evolving with the times, popping up not just in literature, but film, radio, television, comics, the internet, videogames and undoubtedly whatever lies beyond. “And then, from an open window, a roscoe coughed Ka-Chow!” Nelson, Jerome Severs Perry & Harcourt Weems Court, Walt Bruce, John Grange, Nelson Kent, Kenneth A.

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