Hitched! Married Eyes and Their Spouses…
A few of these are true detecting duos with both spouses working as actual private eyes, but many have the wife reduced to the role of amateur sleuth, and even more disappointedly, many of them are further reduced to the role of “the little woman,” there simply as someone to occasionally be kidnapped, make breakfast or stamp her pretty little foot when hubby rushes out of the house to confront some femme fatale — even though(at least in a few of them) she may be the better sleuth.
I’d like to say that that the more modern couples split the detecting a little more evenly, but sadly, even now, that’s not always the case…
Paul Beck & Dora Myrl by M. McDonnell Bodkin, K.C.- Richard & Grace Duvall by Arnold Fredericks
- Tommy & “Tuppence” Beresford by Agatha Christie
- Nick & Nora Charles by Dashiell Hammett
- Michael & Phyllis Shayne by Brett Halliday
- Carney & Ellen Wilde by Bart Spicer
- Brock Callahan & Jan Bonnett by William C. Gault (Well, almost in this case)
- Ben Helm & Greta Murdock by Bruno Fischer
- Jim & Sandy Bennett by Robert Martin
- Gail and Dwight Berke by Carl G. Hodges
- Nick and Sue Burney by Edward Churchill
- Paul & Maureeen Shaw by Mark Sadler
- Quin St. James & Mike McCleary by T.J. MacGregor
- Zoë Boehm & Joe Silvermann by Mick Herron
- Sally & Kingslet Toplitt by Gail Stockwell
- Sammy & Ethel Abbott by James R. Langham
- Gwen & Garamond Gray by Atanielle Annyn
- Clive “Dormouse” Conrad & Alice Faverden by Frank King
- Dominique & Ambrose Frayne by J.T. McIntosh
- Andy & Sue MacVeigh by Sue MacBeugh
- Nora & Alexander Gold by Herbert Resnicow
- Paul & Steve Temple by Francis Durbridge
- Hattie & Fergus O’Hara by Jack Foxx
- Jake & Hildy Pace by Ron Goulart
- Johnny & Suzy Marshall by James M. Fox
- Pete & Jeanie Schoefield by Thomas B. Dewey
- Spenser & Susan Silverman by Robert B. Parker (Might as well be…)
- David Addison & Maddie Hayes (Moonlighting) by Glenn Caron (Well, they might as well have been married…)
- Jennifer Mays & Gabriel Webb (The Maze Agency) by Mike W. Barr
- Greg & Jill McKenzie by Chester D. Campbell
- Roger & Suzanne Bowman by Jerold Last
