Dutch Forkes

From Plastic Tub

Celebrated "private dick," hard-boiled, or rather, poached. He appeared in two novels by Stimes Addisson. His names is an homage to Wilhemina Forkes and his character is based upon stories she used to tell of a crazy uncle--Günter Forkes--who set up a diamond shop in Amsterdam and converted to Juadaism after the Second World War. He was stabbed to death by a half-mad rabbinical student who'd fallen in love with Forkes' wife. in the books, however, Dutch isn't Jewish and lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.