Ed,
Re your question below:
"Did Bill Pronzini's Nameless team up with Marcia Muller's
Sharon McCrone in a book?"
Nameless and Sharon McCone teamed in a book called DOUBLE,
set at a private eye's convention in, IIRC, San Diego. They
work together to solve the murder of Sharon's mentor in the
PI business ("When a gal's former partner is killed, she's
supposed to do somethin about it").
In addition to Nameless and Sharon McCone sharing
ball-carrier (and narrating) duties, cameo appearances are
made by William Campbell Gault's Brock Callahan, Sue
Grafton's Kinsey Milhone, and our own Bob Randisi's Miles
Jacoby.
Nameless and Sharon also turn up in a Pronzini/Muller
collaborative short-short called "Cache and Carry," in which
Sharon asks Nameless for advice on a burglary she's
investigating. Since, in a short story, it's difficult to
divide first-person narrator assignments the way one can in a
novel, the story is told entirely in dialog.
Pronzini's Old West detective, John Quincannon, and Marcia
Muller's crime-solving museum curator, Elena Oliverez, teamed
up (despite the distance of a near-century) on a book called
BEYOND THE GRAVE.
The novel in which Nameless teamed with Collin Wilcox's SFPD
Homicide Lieutenant Frank Hastings (and Pronzini, of course,
teamed with Wilcox) was called TWOSPOT. According to some
sources, it was originally going to be called THREESPOT, and
Joe Gores was going the be the third collaborator, using
characters from his DKA series, but dropped out of the
project.
Perhaps the first authors who crossed their series characters
were Stuart Palmer and Craig Rice, whose respective series
character, crime-solving schoolteacher Hildegard Withers and
hard-drinking attorney John J. Malone, teamed up in a series
of short stories collected in THE PEOPLE VS. WITHERS AND
MALONE.
One author who crossed his own series in a short story is
Edward D. Hoch, whose professional cop, Captain Leopold, and
professional thief, Nick Velvet, met in one tale the title of
which escapes me.
While the Dortmunder crowd and Parker have never met f2f in a
Westlake book (not counting the aforementioned JIMMY THE KID,
in which Parker appears as a fictional character), they do
have a point of contact in Joe Gores DKA series. Parker and
Dan Kearney share a scene that appears in both a DKA book and
a Parker book, each scene depicted from the other character's
POV (I forget which books off-hand), and the Dortmunder crowd
crosses paths with DKA operative Ken Warren in DROWNED HOPES,
and the same scene, from Warren's perspective, later appears
in 32 CADILLACS.
JIM DOHERTY
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