Considering the interest in this thread, I'm surprised
nobody's mentioned Bill Pronzini's character John Quincannon.
Quincannon is a Secret Service operative in the novel
QUINCANNON, but resigns to start a detective agency with
partner/unrequited love interest Sabrina Carpenter, a former
Pinkerton, in 1890s San Francisco. Their adventures were
chronicled in a number of short stories that appeared in EQMM
and Louis L'Amour Western Magazine (and a couple other mags).
The stories were collected and published (in 98, I think) as
CARPENTER & QUINCANNON: PROFESSIONAL DETECTIVE SERVICES
by Crippen
& Landru. It may still be available.
Another novel featuring Quincannon is BEYOND THE GRAVE,
written in collaboration with Marcia Muller. It's a pip. With
Bill & Marcia writing alternate chapters, it's the story
of contemporary amateur sleuth Elena Oliverez finishing a
case begun by Quincannon a century earlier. Very nicely done.
PB
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