Over at Chris Wong Sick Hong’s The Dick Richards page I have a guest post up about the handguns of some of the great gumshoes in fiction…and what they mean about the user.
“The handgun and the private detective go hand in hand. This has been an aspect of fictional flatfoots for more than a century and will likely continue to be so in the future. In most cases, the gun in question is a simple reflection of the man holding its grip.
The first real detectives only showed up in Edgar Allen Poe’s Murder in the Rue Morgue, and it was several decades before the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s deerstalker-clad, substance-abusing Sherlock Holmes made an appearance. While in The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Sign of the Four, Holmes came to use a revolver secreted upon his person, his weapon of choice was a Webley “Metropolitan Police” revolver, a small and compact snub-nosed piece very similar to the Chief’s Special of today. Very little gunplay takes place in Holmes career.”
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Let me introduce myself. I am a bit of a conflict junkie. I am fascinated by war and warfare, assassination, personal protection and weaponry ranging from spud guns and flame throwers to thermonuclear bombs and soviet-trained Ebola monkeys. In short, if it’s violent or a tool to create violence it is kind of my thing.
I have written a few hundred articles on the dry encyclopedia side for such websites as History Times, Firearms Talk.com, GUNS.com, Suite 101 (where I am the contracted Feature Writer for Military History) and Combat Forums; as well as for print publications like England Expects, and Strike First Strike Fast. Several magazines such as Sea Classics, Military Historian and Collector, Mississippi Sportsman and Warship International have carried my pieces. Additionally I am on staff as a naval consultant and writer for Eye Spy Intelligence Magazine.
Currently I am working on several book projects, including a section in the upcoming Mississippi Encyclopedia (to be published by Ole Miss this summer), an alternative history novel about the US-German War of 1916, and a biography of Bennett Doty. My first novel, about the coming zombie apocalypse was released this Spring by Necro Publications and can be found at Amazon.com.
In my day job I am a contractor for the US federal government in what could best be described as the ‘Force Protection’ field. In this I am a certified Firearms, and less-than-lethal combat instructor.
