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Bill Pronzini

The Paradise Affair: A Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery

By Bill Pronzini - Published 2021

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It is 1898 in San Francisco, and John Quincannon is on the tail of two swindlers, Lonesome Jack Vereen and Nevada Ned Nagle, who ...Read Review

The Peaceful Valley Crime Wave: A Western Mystery

By Bill Pronzini - Published 2019

Genres:

Mystery/Crime Western

In 1914, Peaceful Valley, Montana, is a calm, quiet town with little reason for Sheriff Monk to make many arrests. Then in October, a ...Read Review

The Flimflam Affair: A Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery

By Bill Pronzini - Published 2019

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is the seventh installment in the Carpenter and Quincannon series by husband and wife writers Bill Pronzini and Marcia Muller, although this ...Read Review

Give-A-Damn Jones

By Bill Pronzini - Published 2018

Genres:

Western

Artemas Jones is a traveling typographer who works with local newspapers for a few weeks, then travels on to the next town. Around 1890 ...Read Review

The Dangerous Ladies Affair: A Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery

By Bill Pronzini - By Marcia Muller - Published 2017

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Mystery/Crime

Married couple Muller and Pronzini team up again on their fifth Carpenter and Quincannon mystery, set in 1890s San Francisco. Sabina Carpenter and ...Read Review

The Plague of Thieves Affair

By Bill Pronzini - By Marcia Muller - Published 2016

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is the fourth in the Carpenter and Quincannon series written by husband-and-wife team Muller and Pronzini. It opens with John Quinncannon and ...Read Review

The Spook Lights Affair

By Bill Pronzini - By Marcia Muller - Published 2014

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In 1895 San Francisco, a debutante throws herself off a cliff during a festive party. Sabina Carpenter, a female private detective hired to watch ...Read Review