Marty Burns, former child-star, general wise-ass and sometimes
detective
A detective is an investigator, usually a member of a law enforcement agency. They often collect information to solve crimes by talking to witnesses and informants, collecting physical evidence, or searching records in databases. This leads th ...
, is the fictional creation of
Jay Russell
Jay Russell (born January 10, 1960 in North Little Rock, Arkansas), is an American film director, writer and producer.
Biography
He graduated from Columbia University in 1985 with a MFA in screenwriting and directing, having studied with produ ...
. Marty made his debut in the novel ''
Celestial Dogs'' (1996), working as yet another low-rent, Los Angeles detective. The novel is a mix of
hardboiled
Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction). The genre's typical protagonist is a detective who battles the violence o ...
detective and supernatural
horror, laced with heavy doses of humor and Hollywood in-jokes. Marty has appeared in two subsequent novels - ''Burning Bright'' (1997) and ''Greed & Stuff'' (2001) - as well as a series of short stories . His most recent literary appearance was in the novella ''Apocalypse Now, Voyager'' (2005).
Burns, Marty
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