Eddie Valiant Eddie Valiant Edward "Eddie" Valiant is the main protagonist of the novel "Who Censored Roger Rabbit?", and the film adaptation, "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". In the original novel "Who Censored Roger Rabbit?", Eddie Valiant is a fictional modern day California private detective hired by comic book star Roger Rabbit to investigate the workings of Roger's corrupt employers, the DeGreasy Brothers. When Roger is found dead, and his final words having been censored out, Valiant is soon sent on the case of tracking Roger's murderers. This original incarnation of Eddie is a heavy smoker and has a beard as well as
Roger Rabbit in the soon-to-be-shot "Gone with the Wind", but he has also stolen the heart of Jessica. Investigating the affair, Eddie Valiant, Toon protector, finds himself up to his fedora in murder and Hollywood corruption. The book is neither a sequel nor a prequel to "Who Censored Roger Rabbit?" or the film adaptation by Disney. It is a spin-off story with the same characters, just different situations. Roger and Jessica both make small cameo appearances. In "Who Wacked Roger Rabbit?", the third novel in Gary K. Wolf's acclaimed "Roger Rabbit/Toontown" series, hard-boiled gumshoe Eddie Valiant lands a plum job as Gary