RARA-AVIS: Re: Pronzini and Muller different series protags meeting

From: foxbrick ( foxbrick@yahoo.com)
Date: 02 Nov 2007


--- 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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