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John Frederick Quincannon, a former United States Secret Service agent, and Sabina Carpenter, one of the first female Pinkerton operatives, joined forces to form the firm of Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services. Their various cases take them all over the American West in the 1890s. Now they're back in four new adventures. In "The Bughouse Caper," Quincannon matches wits with Sherlock Holmes to solve a series of burglaries and a baffling locked-room murder. "The Cloud Cracker" finds Quincannon called to a small California town to expose an itinerant rainmaker as a charlatan and confidence man, only to run into an unexpected murder. In "Medium Rare" Quincannon and Sabina attend a seance, but more is involved than exposing psychic phenomena as fakery, since they are witnesses to a murder that seems to have been supernatural. "Quincannon in Paradise" is set in the Hawaiian Islands, with the detective on the trail of a pair of swindlers.
Bill Pronzini and his wife, Marcia Muller, make their home in Petaluma, California.
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Pronzini brings back his nineteenth-century sleuth, John Quincannon, in this collection of four short stories. The first, "The Bughouse Caper," is the best: Quincannon, the former Secret Service agent who now runs his own detective agency, is hot on the trail of a serial burglar, but another detective, Holmes by name, is threatening to break the case first. Other stories involve a fraudulent rainmaker, a bogus psychic, and a couple of con artists. Combining two genres--detective story and western, in this case--is always tricky (too much of one can overwhelm the other), but Pronzini, a veteran of both genres, blends the two seamlessly. A real treat from a master at multiple genres. David Pitt
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"Combining to genres - Detective story and western, in this case - always tricky (too much of one can overwhelm the other), but Pronzini, a veteran of both genres, blends the two seamlessly. A real treat from a master at multiple genres."
--Booklist, September 2005 (Booklist 20050901)
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- PublisherFive Star
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1594141673
- ISBN 13 9781594141676
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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