Overview

Private detective and investigator extraordinaire GoGoGorilla makes his living from the fringes of San Diego’s seedy underbelly. To most people, he’s 400 pounds of hired muscle, but to everyone else he’s just a Western Lowland Gorilla who sleeps in his car

You can find GoGoGorilla in his office parked by the Navy Pier on the San Diego waterfront. Like any private detective he’ll consider whatever case you bring to him, large or small. He’ll find a missing person or tail any spouse you please, and he is quick to emphasise the usefulness of his inhuman agility, clever hands, and his special shoes that allow him to spring gracefully onto rooftops. His clients mostly prefer to utilise him for his intimidating stature and alarming face. He hasn’t added ‘cheap hired muscle’ to his business card yet, but life is wearing him down.

GoGoGorilla doesn’t just have a 1995 Volkswagen Cabrio, a powder-blue trenchcoat and his pride, he’s also got street smarts in spades. He was literally born on the streets. His mother escaped from the zoo with a belly load of future gumshoe which she needed to put somewhere. Life was tough, school was tougher, and I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to get a bank account when you’re not a member of the Homo sapiens sapiens club but that might be the toughest thing of all.

So not only did GoGoGorlla forge nerves of tempered steel to survive, but he had to learn better than anyone how the city was put together. He chose a profession that immersed him in the San Diego underworld because he couldn’t picture himself ever getting his head above those waters.

He doesn’t want to drown, but he’s kicking as hard as he can.