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Novels in the series include ''The Plutonium Blonde'', ''The Doomsday Brunette'', ''The Radioactive Redhead'', ''The Frost-Haired Vixen'', ''The Blue Haired Bombshell'', ''The Flaxen Femme Fatale'', and ''The Sapphire Sirens''.
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Novels in the series include ''The Plutonium Blonde'', ''The Doomsday Brunette'', ''The Radioactive Redhead'', ''The Frost-Haired Vixen'', ''The Blue Haired Bombshell'', ''The Flaxen Femme Fatale'', and ''The Sapphire Sirens''. The series also includes a novella (''The Raven-Haired Rogue'', released in 2015), a graphic novel (''The Case of the Bionic Dancer''), and an audio drama (''The Peach Blonde Bomber'', released in 2020).
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** The trend picks back up in the novella ''The Raven-Haired Rogue.''
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* WalkingWasteland: Natasha, the titular antagonist of ''The Flaxen Femme Fatale'', is a psi capable of emitting an anti-life field that instantly kills every living thing in her vicinity.vicinity.
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* FantasticNoir: Classic detective story plots with hard Sci-Fi trappings? Check and check.
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* AntagonistTitle: Each novel is named after what is presumably the FemmeFetale that Zachary Nixon Johnson is facing for that novel.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The first six books have titles that relate to female hair colors:
** ''The Plutonium Blonde''
** ''The Doomsday Brunette''
** ''The Radioactive Redhead''
** ''The Frost-Haired Vixen''
** ''The Blue Haired Bombshell''
** ''The Flaxen Femme Fatale''
** ''The Plutonium Blonde''
** ''The Doomsday Brunette''
** ''The Radioactive Redhead''
** ''The Frost-Haired Vixen''
** ''The Blue Haired Bombshell''
** ''The Flaxen Femme Fatale''
* ProtagonistTitle: The series is named after it's protagonist, "Zachary Nixon Johnson".
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The ''Zachary Nixon Johnson'' series is a humorous retro sci-fi / noir detective series written by John Zakour and Lawrence Ganem (the later books exclusively by John Zakour).
The series follows the exploits of Zachary Nixon Johnson, who works as the last private detective on Earth. Each novel has the world being endangered by a FemmeFatale, and Zach being called on to save the day with the assistance of gadgets provided by his GadgeteerGenius friend Dr. Randy Pool, his psychic secretary Carol, and and his AI assistant HARV.
Novels in the series include ''The Plutonium Blonde'', ''The Doomsday Brunette'', ''The Radioactive Redhead'', ''The Frost-Haired Vixen'', ''The Blue Haired Bombshell'', ''The Flaxen Femme Fatale'', and ''The Sapphire Sirens''.
!This series contains examples of the following tropes:
* AllPartOfTheShow: When kabuki assassin droids attack Zach at a restaurant, the patrons think its all part of the show, despite his repeated attempts to get them to evacuate.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The Thompson Quads have slightly purple-tinged skin.
* BeastMan: Fera from ''The Flaxen Femme Fatale'', who is a woman spliced with tiger DNA.
* ColonyDrop: The Gladians are generally considered to be a peaceful race, as they have no weapons. They do, however, have some very large ships, which they can fly into planets at very fast speeds...
* DesignerBabies: The Thompson Quads, four girls created by Dr. Thompson to be superhumanly beautiful, intelligent, and powerful.
* DopplegangerSpin: When fighting in his apartment, Zachary is able to do this by having HARV project hologram copies of him to confuse the enemy.
* DyingClue: In ''The Doomsday Brunette'', Foraa Thompson writes a cryptic message before dying. The trope is lampshaded several times.
--> '''Zach''': Foraa's dying clue. She drew these symbols in the wine puddle just before she died. Maybe as some sort of veiled reference to her killer's identity.
--> '''Electra''': Why didn't she just write down the killer's name?
--> '''Zach''': Because that would have been too easy.
--> '''Electra''': So she spent her last nanos of life devising some arcane symbolic code?
--> '''Zach''': Well, apparently, lots of murder victims do it.
* EvilTwin: In ''The Flaxen Femme Fatale'', the antagonist Natasha is an evil clone of Zach's secretary, Carol. [[spoiler:Though she ultimately turns out to be not so much evil as unable to control her psi powers]].
* EyeBeams: ''The Flaxen Femme Fatale'' includes a psi named Liz Lazor who specializes in firing lasers from her eyes.
* FakingTheDead: Features in a couple of novels.
** In ''The Doomsday Brunette'', [[spoiler:none of the multiple simultaneous attempts on Foraa's life were successful; she chose to play dead in order to let some of the heat die down]].
** In ''The Flaxen Femme Fatale'', [[spoiler:Natasha ultimately fakes her death so that the government will stop trying to use her psi powers for nefarious purposes]].
* FlyingCar: Most cars are flying cars. Zach is frequently mocked for having an antique non-flying car.
* ForScience: Dr. Randy Pool justifies some of his more morally ambiguous work to Zach by saying he "had to do it for the good of science".
* FriendOnTheForce: Captain Tony Rickey of the New Frisco police is a close friend of Zach's, and sometimes helps him with his cases.
* GadgeteerGenius: Dr. Randy Pool, who creates the many useful gadgets used by Zach -- and, occasionally, by his enemies.
* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: The evil plan in ''The Frost-Haired Vixen'' is a virus that would make everyone happy all the time.
* GiverOfLameNames: Dr. Thompson. He named his four daughters Ona, Twoa, Threa, and Foraa.
* ItWasADarkAndStormyNight: The first sentence of ''The Doomsday Brunette''.
* KillerRobot: Many of them feature; usually as {{Mook}}s, but the BigBad of ''The Plutonium Blonde'' is one as well.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Sexy Sprocket's manager, Sammy Smiles, has a hideously wide mouth with at least sixty teeth visible when he smiles.
* MySkullRunnethOver: Maggie Chill, a powerful psychic, tries to read Zach's mind; but since Zach is mentally connected to HARV, she ends up getting his entire computer database downloaded into her head. Zach compares it to trying to drink a glass of water and getting the entire Atlantic Ocean. The information overload knocks Maggie catatonic; HARV says that she'll survive, but will likely have a headache for weeks.
* TheNicknamer: Zach says that when fighting hired goons, it's important to give them demeaning nicknames.
* NighInvulnerability: The Thompson Quads are all explicitly described as "nigh-invulnerable".
* OverlyLongName: The Thompsons' butler, Wintercrescenhavenshivershamshawjamison.
* PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs: The Gladians wiped out the dinosaurs for "getting uppity", and threaten to do the same to humanity in ''The Doomsday Brunette''.
* PointlessDoomsdayDevice: The D-Cubed, which Dr. Thompson made just to see if he could.
--> ''That's the problem with scientists; the thrill of invention often stops them from thinking through the consequences of their actions. They never stop to think: "Hey, there might be some potential to misuse this doomsday device so maybe it's not such a hot idea to invent it."''
* PowerIncontinence: Natasha from ''The Flaxen Femme Fatale'' is a powerful psi who is unable to fully control her abilities; whenever she gets upset, she inadvertently activates her WalkingWasteland powers.
* PrivateDetective: Zach is the last private detective on Earth, all the others having been bought out by large corporations.
* PsychicStatic: In ''The Plutonium Blonde'', Zachary says best way to block a psi is to hum an EarWorm.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Ona Thompson believes her wealth means she shouldn't be subject to laws.
--> '''Ona''': I still have to obey these silly New Frisco laws?
--> '''Zach''': Well, yes.
--> '''Ona''': But I'm really, really rich!
* ServileSnarker: HARV, Zach's AI assistant.
* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: BS Star decided to replace his wife with a robot. The gynoid he created to fill this role had hundreds of times the strength and speed of a human and the power to psionically dominate minds. Everyone agreed it was a tad excessive.
* SuperpowerMeltdown: Carol nearly suffers one in ''The Radioactive Redhead''.
* TalkingWeapon: Dr. Randy Pool makes Zach a talking gun called GUS.
* TeleFrag: In ''The Frost-Haired Vixen'', Zach defeats the villain by causing her to teleport into a wall.
* ThereWasADoor: Part of Twoa's superhero act is that she doesn't feel the need to use doors.
--> '''Zach''': Twoa, you do realize I have a perfectly good door?
--> '''Twoa''': I'm a mega-human superhero! I need no door!
* VirtualGhost: In ''The Doomsday Brunette'', [[spoiler:the Thompson Quads' computer is revealed at the end to be their father, who uploaded his mind to escape court-ordered lobotomization]].
* WalkingWasteland: Natasha, the titular antagonist of ''The Flaxen Femme Fatale'', is a psi capable of emitting an anti-life field that instantly kills every living thing in her vicinity.
The series follows the exploits of Zachary Nixon Johnson, who works as the last private detective on Earth. Each novel has the world being endangered by a FemmeFatale, and Zach being called on to save the day with the assistance of gadgets provided by his GadgeteerGenius friend Dr. Randy Pool, his psychic secretary Carol, and and his AI assistant HARV.
Novels in the series include ''The Plutonium Blonde'', ''The Doomsday Brunette'', ''The Radioactive Redhead'', ''The Frost-Haired Vixen'', ''The Blue Haired Bombshell'', ''The Flaxen Femme Fatale'', and ''The Sapphire Sirens''.
!This series contains examples of the following tropes:
* AllPartOfTheShow: When kabuki assassin droids attack Zach at a restaurant, the patrons think its all part of the show, despite his repeated attempts to get them to evacuate.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The Thompson Quads have slightly purple-tinged skin.
* BeastMan: Fera from ''The Flaxen Femme Fatale'', who is a woman spliced with tiger DNA.
* ColonyDrop: The Gladians are generally considered to be a peaceful race, as they have no weapons. They do, however, have some very large ships, which they can fly into planets at very fast speeds...
* DesignerBabies: The Thompson Quads, four girls created by Dr. Thompson to be superhumanly beautiful, intelligent, and powerful.
* DopplegangerSpin: When fighting in his apartment, Zachary is able to do this by having HARV project hologram copies of him to confuse the enemy.
* DyingClue: In ''The Doomsday Brunette'', Foraa Thompson writes a cryptic message before dying. The trope is lampshaded several times.
--> '''Zach''': Foraa's dying clue. She drew these symbols in the wine puddle just before she died. Maybe as some sort of veiled reference to her killer's identity.
--> '''Electra''': Why didn't she just write down the killer's name?
--> '''Zach''': Because that would have been too easy.
--> '''Electra''': So she spent her last nanos of life devising some arcane symbolic code?
--> '''Zach''': Well, apparently, lots of murder victims do it.
* EvilTwin: In ''The Flaxen Femme Fatale'', the antagonist Natasha is an evil clone of Zach's secretary, Carol. [[spoiler:Though she ultimately turns out to be not so much evil as unable to control her psi powers]].
* EyeBeams: ''The Flaxen Femme Fatale'' includes a psi named Liz Lazor who specializes in firing lasers from her eyes.
* FakingTheDead: Features in a couple of novels.
** In ''The Doomsday Brunette'', [[spoiler:none of the multiple simultaneous attempts on Foraa's life were successful; she chose to play dead in order to let some of the heat die down]].
** In ''The Flaxen Femme Fatale'', [[spoiler:Natasha ultimately fakes her death so that the government will stop trying to use her psi powers for nefarious purposes]].
* FlyingCar: Most cars are flying cars. Zach is frequently mocked for having an antique non-flying car.
* ForScience: Dr. Randy Pool justifies some of his more morally ambiguous work to Zach by saying he "had to do it for the good of science".
* FriendOnTheForce: Captain Tony Rickey of the New Frisco police is a close friend of Zach's, and sometimes helps him with his cases.
* GadgeteerGenius: Dr. Randy Pool, who creates the many useful gadgets used by Zach -- and, occasionally, by his enemies.
* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: The evil plan in ''The Frost-Haired Vixen'' is a virus that would make everyone happy all the time.
* GiverOfLameNames: Dr. Thompson. He named his four daughters Ona, Twoa, Threa, and Foraa.
* ItWasADarkAndStormyNight: The first sentence of ''The Doomsday Brunette''.
* KillerRobot: Many of them feature; usually as {{Mook}}s, but the BigBad of ''The Plutonium Blonde'' is one as well.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Sexy Sprocket's manager, Sammy Smiles, has a hideously wide mouth with at least sixty teeth visible when he smiles.
* MySkullRunnethOver: Maggie Chill, a powerful psychic, tries to read Zach's mind; but since Zach is mentally connected to HARV, she ends up getting his entire computer database downloaded into her head. Zach compares it to trying to drink a glass of water and getting the entire Atlantic Ocean. The information overload knocks Maggie catatonic; HARV says that she'll survive, but will likely have a headache for weeks.
* TheNicknamer: Zach says that when fighting hired goons, it's important to give them demeaning nicknames.
* NighInvulnerability: The Thompson Quads are all explicitly described as "nigh-invulnerable".
* OverlyLongName: The Thompsons' butler, Wintercrescenhavenshivershamshawjamison.
* PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs: The Gladians wiped out the dinosaurs for "getting uppity", and threaten to do the same to humanity in ''The Doomsday Brunette''.
* PointlessDoomsdayDevice: The D-Cubed, which Dr. Thompson made just to see if he could.
--> ''That's the problem with scientists; the thrill of invention often stops them from thinking through the consequences of their actions. They never stop to think: "Hey, there might be some potential to misuse this doomsday device so maybe it's not such a hot idea to invent it."''
* PowerIncontinence: Natasha from ''The Flaxen Femme Fatale'' is a powerful psi who is unable to fully control her abilities; whenever she gets upset, she inadvertently activates her WalkingWasteland powers.
* PrivateDetective: Zach is the last private detective on Earth, all the others having been bought out by large corporations.
* PsychicStatic: In ''The Plutonium Blonde'', Zachary says best way to block a psi is to hum an EarWorm.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Ona Thompson believes her wealth means she shouldn't be subject to laws.
--> '''Ona''': I still have to obey these silly New Frisco laws?
--> '''Zach''': Well, yes.
--> '''Ona''': But I'm really, really rich!
* ServileSnarker: HARV, Zach's AI assistant.
* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: BS Star decided to replace his wife with a robot. The gynoid he created to fill this role had hundreds of times the strength and speed of a human and the power to psionically dominate minds. Everyone agreed it was a tad excessive.
* SuperpowerMeltdown: Carol nearly suffers one in ''The Radioactive Redhead''.
* TalkingWeapon: Dr. Randy Pool makes Zach a talking gun called GUS.
* TeleFrag: In ''The Frost-Haired Vixen'', Zach defeats the villain by causing her to teleport into a wall.
* ThereWasADoor: Part of Twoa's superhero act is that she doesn't feel the need to use doors.
--> '''Zach''': Twoa, you do realize I have a perfectly good door?
--> '''Twoa''': I'm a mega-human superhero! I need no door!
* VirtualGhost: In ''The Doomsday Brunette'', [[spoiler:the Thompson Quads' computer is revealed at the end to be their father, who uploaded his mind to escape court-ordered lobotomization]].
* WalkingWasteland: Natasha, the titular antagonist of ''The Flaxen Femme Fatale'', is a psi capable of emitting an anti-life field that instantly kills every living thing in her vicinity.
