shamus
shay muhs
- n someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information
- Mike Hammer, Spillane's kill-crazy shamus, is portrayed by a young heavy from TV named "Biff" Elliot.
- The book, as its name suggests, would write finis to Travis McGee, the perdurable, persnickety shamus whose demise, white-haired Author John Dann MacDonald once vowed, would .
- His shamus was a magnet for oestrous women; Chandler married Cissy Pascal, 17 years his senior, and remained faithful.