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(4.5) | None | Sleuthing twosomes have long made their mark on detective fiction. From the unnamed narrator in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter" who adroitly recounts the virtuosity of the Parisian detective, C. Auguste Dupin; to Dorothy L. Sayers's beloved Lord Peter Wimsey and Mr. Bunter; to LillianJackson Braun's interspecies partnership between Phut Phat (an investigative genius who happens to be a cat) and one of its owners; detective duos have come in all guises. Indeed, there are almost as many variations of compatriot crimefighters as there are types of mystery and detective fiction.In this marvelous anthology, a real-life detective duo--married mystery novelists Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini--have brought together 25 of the best paired puzzle-solvers in short stories of remarkable range and scope. Here are traditional tandems: Sherlock and his admiring Watson, in adevilish puzzler "The Adventure of the Empty House," alongside Nero Wolfe and his (less fawning) employee, Archie Goodwin, in "Fourth of July Picnic." Husband and wife teams are well represented by Frances and Richard Lockridge's Mr. and Mrs. North, Kelley Roos's Jeff and Haila Troy, and PatrickQuentin's Peter and Iris Duluth. Amateurs work alongside professional crimesolvers in such stories as Julie Smith's never-before-published "The End of the Earth," featuring Skip Langdon and Steve Steinman, and the clue-seeking precursors to television's Quincy appear as partnered forensicpathologists Dr. Daniel Coffee and Dr. Motilal Mookerji in Lawrence G. Blochman's "The Phantom Cry-Baby." Sleuthing tandems come in different sexes, so we find Marcia Muller's Sharon McCone and Rae Kelleher alongside Fredric Brown's Ed and Am Hunter, as well as Bill Pronzini's Sabina Carpenter andJohn Quincannon, where crime solving crosses barriers of both gender and time. And here too is a treasure chest of detective fiction styles: pure deduction, the impossible crime, the cozy, the dark comedy, espionage, the procedural, and more, in locales as varied as the crimes themselves, fromEngland, to Antarctica, to fast-moving trains crossing America.Spanning more than a century of crime fiction, including both classic tales by the greats of mystery writing as well as gems from lesser-known writers, Detective Duos will captivate the sleuth in all of us.… (more) |
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None ▾Book descriptions Sleuthing twosomes have long made their mark on detective fiction. From the unnamed narrator in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter" who adroitly recounts the virtuosity of the Parisian detective, C. Auguste Dupin; to Dorothy L. Sayers's beloved Lord Peter Wimsey and Mr. Bunter; to LillianJackson Braun's interspecies partnership between Phut Phat (an investigative genius who happens to be a cat) and one of its owners; detective duos have come in all guises. Indeed, there are almost as many variations of compatriot crimefighters as there are types of mystery and detective fiction.In this marvelous anthology, a real-life detective duo--married mystery novelists Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini--have brought together 25 of the best paired puzzle-solvers in short stories of remarkable range and scope. Here are traditional tandems: Sherlock and his admiring Watson, in adevilish puzzler "The Adventure of the Empty House," alongside Nero Wolfe and his (less fawning) employee, Archie Goodwin, in "Fourth of July Picnic." Husband and wife teams are well represented by Frances and Richard Lockridge's Mr. and Mrs. North, Kelley Roos's Jeff and Haila Troy, and PatrickQuentin's Peter and Iris Duluth. Amateurs work alongside professional crimesolvers in such stories as Julie Smith's never-before-published "The End of the Earth," featuring Skip Langdon and Steve Steinman, and the clue-seeking precursors to television's Quincy appear as partnered forensicpathologists Dr. Daniel Coffee and Dr. Motilal Mookerji in Lawrence G. Blochman's "The Phantom Cry-Baby." Sleuthing tandems come in different sexes, so we find Marcia Muller's Sharon McCone and Rae Kelleher alongside Fredric Brown's Ed and Am Hunter, as well as Bill Pronzini's Sabina Carpenter andJohn Quincannon, where crime solving crosses barriers of both gender and time. And here too is a treasure chest of detective fiction styles: pure deduction, the impossible crime, the cozy, the dark comedy, espionage, the procedural, and more, in locales as varied as the crimes themselves, fromEngland, to Antarctica, to fast-moving trains crossing America.Spanning more than a century of crime fiction, including both classic tales by the greats of mystery writing as well as gems from lesser-known writers, Detective Duos will captivate the sleuth in all of us. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Contains: - Introduction / Marcia Muller, Bill Pronzini
- The Purloined Letter / Edgar Allan Poe
- The Adventure of the Empty House / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Death at the Excelsior / P.G. Wodehouse
- The Puzzle Lock / R. Austin Freeman
- The Love Detectives / Agatha Christie
- The Sealed House / Hulbert Footner
- The Footsteps That Ran / Dorothy L. Sayers
- Pattern for Murder / Frances and Richard Lockridge
- Fourth of July Picnic / Rex Stout
- Two Over Par / Kelley Roos
- One Morning They'll Hang Him / Margery Allingham
- Puzzle for Poppy / Patrick Quentin
- Once Upon a Train / Stuart Palmer and Craig Rice
- The Phantom Cry-Baby / Lawrence G. Blochman
- Phut Phat Concentrates / Lilian Jackson Braun
- Before She Kills / Fredric Brown
- And Start with a Blonde / Jack Webb
- The Road to Damascus / Michael Gilbert
- Dalziel's Ghost / Reginald Hill
- Interpol: The Case of the Modern Medusa / Edward D. Hoch
- The Holes in the System / Marcia Muller
- The Desert Limited / Brill Pronzini
- Stop, Thief! / Barbara D'Amato
- The Adventure of the Perpetual Husbands / Ellen Dearmore
- The End of the Earth / Julie Smith
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This well chosen and coherent selection contains stories that are at the least good, some quite so and some excellent including those by the editors, Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini. (