Sounds like my great search for a carry gun in the 80s...shortly after getting my CC permit and thinking about using it on a regular basis.................I got a...................

Detective Special ( cus my Dad had a 50s model DS for off duty/then carried it as a Capt.) ...then IIRC.. went to a 2" 36 (smaller)....to a 4" Colt Diamondback (looked way cool and not really that hard to carry)......then a 3" 36..............back to another Dick Sp. (for 6 shots) ........ 2 1/2" 19 (why not;not that much bigger and a .357 carried well in a Sparks SS)........ then a 3" 65 w/ bobbed hammer and shortened "Banana" grips and Sparks Summer Special........

Still have that 65........ but it took a back seat to a 3" 66 with Spegel Boot grips in 1988/89