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Whenever I'm suffering from writer's block, I always pick up a battered private detective novel for inspiration. Now, I can do it on a video browser.

Over at the web video blog Reel Pop, Steve Bryant has brought pulp fiction into the YouTube era. He lists, complete with trailers, clips, and links, his five favorite television private detectives. Take a trip down memory lane with him. 

Last year while researching my Paul Malmont interview, I put together a list of the best hardboiled radio shows with the help of the Rara-Avis mailing list. Check it out for your audio pleasure.

1- The outrageous, jumbled metaphors and pulpy soundtrack of Pat Novak, For Hire.

2- The impeccable cool of Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator.

3- The cynical insurance P.I. who always gets mixed up in murder, Jeff Regan, Investigator.

4- The violent, dark adventures on Gunsmoke.

Finally, list member Dick Lochte mailed in a much longer list, full of great shows to check out: "Richard Diamond, Private Detective was pretty hardboiled. The Third Man: The Lives of Harry Lime, with Orson Welles in adventures that took place before the character was bumped off by his pal, is arguably hardboiled. As are shows with Alan Ladd (Box 13), Bogart and Bacall (Bold Venture), Edward G. Robinson (Big Town), Jeff Chandler (Michael Shayne)."