--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Moore"
<moorich@...> wrote:
>
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Ed Lynskey
<e_lynskey@> wrote:
> >
> > --
> > >
> >
> > Okay, the Pelecanos characters, right. Did Bill
Pronzini's
> > Nameless team up with Marcia Muller's Sharon
McCrone in a book?
> > And Richard Prather's Shell Scott appeared with
Stephen
> > Marlowe's Chester Drum in DOUBLE TROUBLE.
That's a bit more than
> > a casual meeting.
> >
> Pronzini's Nameless shared the stage with other
detectives at
least
> twice. One was, as you mention, with Marcia Muller's
Sharon
McCone
> in DOUBLE (1984). Please note that the correct name
of Ms.
Muller's
> detective is McCone, not McCrone. Perhaps you
altered the name
as
> a form of commentary?
>
> The other Pronzini novel featuring another detective
was his
> collaboration with Collin Wilcox's Lt. Frank
Hastings in TWOSPOT.
And at least one time-displaced collaboration between
Muller's Oliverra and Pronzini's Quincannon...that was
shorter fiction, however, iirc.
Todd Mason
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