The Bughouse Affair (Carpenter and Quincannon Mysteries)

from Kathy89

Former Secret Service Agent and Pinkerton detective team up to form a detective agency in San Francisco in the 1890s. There cases are investigating thefts for an insurance company and nabbing a pick-pocket and retrieving the stolen articles. The only thing that made this book interesting was is i...

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I did enjoy this book, although strangely, I think I might have liked it better in print than I did in audio. I felt an odd disconnect between the characters and the voice narrators--they didn't seem to fit, somehow. Of course, this is a personal preference and YMMV. I liked the setting and the c...

from Twink

Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini? Each of them is an accomplished and award winning mystery author, but they also happen to be husband and wife. The Bughouse Affair is the first novel they've written together in over twenty years. 1890's San Francisco. Sabina Carpenter, a former Pinkerton Detectiv...

from EmpressReece

I really enjoyed this book. Ive read sone of Pronzini and Muller's individual books and didnt care for them that much but when they write together it really works. I hope they continue this series!

from Maydacat

This delightful historical fiction pairs up two congenial characters as partners in a detective agency. While Sabina Carpenter and John Quincannon appear to working on solving separate cases, eventually the investigations become intertwined. Adding to the intrigue is the chance meeting with anoth...