And now Chuck Martino stepped into the gumshoes of hardboiled P.I. (and throwback to the 1940s) Bill Harlow. Rick Savage, Mike Horner, Randy West, Randy Spears, and Tony Tedeschi had all played the private dick in the past. This was the 12th Bill Harlow mystery by writer Cash Markman, and the 11th to be directed (or co-directed) by Fox.