by Richard S. Prather and Stephern Marlowe
Two of Fawcett Gold Medal's best-selling eyes, Prather's Shell Scott and Marlowe's Chester Drum, team up to crack a case.
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by G.G. Fickling
Fickling (actually the husband-wife writing team of Gloria and Forrester Fickling) paired up their two sex-crazed P.I.s, Erik March and Honey West, in this 1971 caper.
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by Bill Pronzini and Collin Wilcox
Pronzini's Nameless and San Francisco Police Department Lieutenant Frank Hastings work to solve a murder involving an old California winemaking family.
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By Bill Pronzini and Marcia Muller
Pronzini's Nameless and Muller's Sharon McCone team up to crack a case together after running into each other at a private eye convention in San Diego, McCone's hometown. There are also walk-ons by Brock "The Rock" Callahan, Kinsey Millhone and Miles Jacoby.
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By William Campbell Gault
Ex-LA Rams guard turned South California private eye Brock Callahan tries to help out another Gault PI, the troubled Joe Puma, who had his own series back in the fifties and sixties.
Caribbean Blues (1988) ...Buy this bookEdited by Mary higgins Clark, with chapters by Mary Higgins Clark, Molly Cochran, Max Allan Collins, Gregory McDonald, Richard Meyers, Warren Murphy, and Robert J. Randisi
A group of P.I.s, including Collins' Nate Heller and, anachronistically, Murphy's Trace, solve a crime on the highseas during a Caribbean cruise, circa 1938.
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By Loren D. Estleman, Ed Gorman, W.R. Philbrick, Robert J. Randisi and L.J. Washburn
Edited by Robert J. Randisi and Ruth Ashby
Salvatore Carlucci, part-time peeper and owner of The Black Moon bar, enlists the aid of "America's toughest detectives" to track down some paintings stolen forty years previously during WWII.
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by James Crumley
Not really by multiple authors, although it does bring together Crumley's two series eyes, Milo Milodragovitch and C.W. Sughrue.
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By Carl Hiassen, Elmore Leonard, Dave Barry, Edna Buchanan and nine others
Florida crime writers all have a whack at a crime novel that includes a 102-year-old environmentalist, former President Jimmy Carter and cryogenically-preserved human heads.
By Robert B. Parker
The Sunny Randall series has always been full of sly winks and nudge-nudges, as supporting characters from Parker's other series regularly pop up, drop by or pass through, but this time out, the perpetually troubled Sunny, she of the screwy love life, goes off the deep end when she learns her ex is getting remarried and decides to seek out professional help from a Cambridge therapist. The shrink, of course, turns out to be Susan Silverman, main squeeze of you-know-who.
By Robert B. Parker
Sunny Randall rides again. This time not only is Susan Silverman aboard, but Jesse Stone, chief of police of Paradise, Massachusetts and Parker's other non-Spenser series detective, hooks up (in the Biblical sense of the phrase) with Sunny. At this point, I'm still not sure what it means in terms of either the Sunny or Jesse series, but the next Jesse Stone should be very interesting...
