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6/5/2010 2:32:58 PM
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stanbrown
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I know that Ed Hoch, with his legion of series characters, had Nick Velvet and Captain Leopold meet, and Rand and Marco Vladek met in another story.
Can anyone point out (particularly with story titles or issue dates, if you know them) other detective crossovers? Has Ellery Queen himself met any other detectives? I suppose it might be difficult to clear the rights for this, unless it was done as a parody piece (such as the movie, Murder by Death), but I think it would be really fun to have the 1920s/1930s Ellery meet up with Charlie Chan, and the 1950s Ellery meet up with Mr. and Mrs. North (especially them) or Captain Heimrich, or the 1960s Ellery meet up with the other Richard Lockridge New York cops or district attorneys.
Out of all of these, Ellery and Pam and Jerry North HAD to have moved in the same social circles in New York--Jerry a publisher, Ellery a novelist; the Norths pals with homicide Lt. Bill Weigand, Ellery's dad an inspector. Both of them had a lot to do with the New York theater. Has no one already written this?
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6/5/2010 4:22:32 PM
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Tog
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I have a podcast from the 40's (I think) where Holmes and Watson, near the end of their careers were called upon to chase a spy ring across Europe with the aid a of a young Belgian inspector named Poirot. I doubt it was a print story though.
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6/5/2010 7:16:58 PM
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Jon L. Breen
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There are probably more examples than you'd think. Bill Pronzini's Nameless Detective meets Colin Willcox's Lt. Frank Hastings in TWOSPOT (1978) and Marcia Muller's Sharon McCone in DOUBLE (1984). When Robert J. Randisi's Miles Jacoby needs assistance from a private eye in another city, he always calls upon other writers' fictional sleuths. Craig Rice and Stuart Palmer did a series of short stories for EQMM in which lawyer John J. Malone and schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers collaborate. Two private eyes very popular in the fifties and sixties, Richard S. Prather's Shell Scott and Stephen Marlowe's Chester Drum, appeared together in DOUBLE IN TROUBLE (1959). H.C. Bailey brought his two series characters Reggie Fortune and Joshua Clunk together in THE GREAT GAME (1939). These are just a few that come immediately to mind. As for Ellery Queen, he becomes a posthumous collaborator with Sherlock Holmes on the Jack the Ripper case in the movie novelization A STUDY IN TERROR (1966). A couple of other examples of detectives who lived at different times working on the same case are Pronzini's Quincannon and Muller's Elena Oliverez in BEYOND THE GRAVE (1986) and two of Ed Gorman's characters, Robert Payne and Anna Tolan, in HAWK MOON (1996).
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6/20/2010 12:30:34 AM
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Robert Lopresti
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Not PRECISELY a pairing of detectives, but Joe Gores' characters have twice run into characters of Donald E. Westlake.
In PLUNDER SQUAD, which Westlake wrote under the name RIchard Stark, his thief Parker is meeting with a group of fellow crooks when private eye Dan Kearney, of Gores' DKA Agency, shows up looking for information. The same scene shows up, from Kearney's point of view, in a Gores novel, but I don't recall the title.
A few years later they did it again. In 32 CADILLACS one of Kearney's repo men finds one of the missing cars and follows it to a small town in upper New York where he meets a group of people who seem surprisingly unconcerned when he repossesses their car. In Westlake's DROWNED HOPES the Dortmunder gang are surprised and bemused when someone repossesses their stolen car...
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6/21/2010 6:42:18 AM
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Tog
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More from the old radio shows.
Sam Spade called up Philip Marlowe to ask about a some facet of a case. Actually, maybe it was Marlowe that called Spade. I've listened to quite a few lately. At any rate, the implication was that they knew each other and that there was some measure of respect between them.
In another, Spade was looking for a boat and made a reference to Pat Novak. Pat Novak, for Hire was a show that starred Jack Web as a waterfront resident that rented a boat and seemed to be caught standing over a dead body or two with alarming frequency.
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6/21/2010 9:50:53 AM
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Robert Lopresti
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Again, not quite detective-to-detective, but in Barbara Paul's novel THE FOURTH WALL, her heroine liveson W. 35th St in NYC. When a crime is committed there the police tells her it was reported by two alert neighbors, a Mr. Goodwin, and a Dr. Vollmer. If anyone doesn't recognize those names, they come from Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novels.
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6/21/2010 9:00:35 PM
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Jeff Baker
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In Ed McBain's "Candyland" (I think!) some of his characters from the 87th Precinct solve a case with another of McBain's series detectives. In the 20's The Detection Club wrote at least one novel where the authors wrote about the other's famous characters. And I like to think that the recent t.v. version of Archie Goodwin (Timothy Hutton) lives not too far away from the Jim Hutton version of Ellery Queen...(They are in the same general era after all!)
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6/22/2010 2:43:33 AM
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K.J.
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Tog wrote:
More from the old radio shows.
Sam Spade called up Philip Marlowe to ask about a some facet of a case. Actually, maybe it was Marlowe that called Spade. I've listened to quite a few lately. At any rate, the implication was that they knew each other and that there was some measure of respect between them.
In another, Spade was looking for a boat and made a reference to Pat Novak. Pat Novak, for Hire was a show that starred Jack Web as a waterfront resident that rented a boat and seemed to be caught standing over a dead body or two with alarming frequency.
It's Spade who calls up Marlowe. It's a 1948 episode of Suspense called "The Kandy Tooth Caper" or maybe just "The Kandy Tooth." The only thing I liked about it was the Marlowe reference; the other Spade episode is called "The House in Cypress Canyon" and I found it considerably more awesome.
Pat Novak wins bonus points because Raymond Burr played Inspector Hellman.
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6/23/2010 4:13:57 PM
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Leigh
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Dirk Pitt bumped into James Bond in one of Clive Cussler's novels (original series).
(I'm working on a story that has a couple of those 'Easter eggs' in it.)
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8/2/2010 1:21:59 AM
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Jeff Baker
Posts 132
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Somewhere I read that Erle Stanley Gardner and Rex Stout started half-jokingly plotting out a novel where Perry Mason and Nero Wolfe would work together. The book only got as far as the idea that Wolfe and Mason would get along untill Archie Goodwin asked Della Street out on a date and Mason hit the ceiling. May have been in one of Stout's daughter's intros for the later books not written by Stout. Would have loved to see that one!
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8/3/2010 11:06:22 PM
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Robert Lopresti
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IN McAleer's biography of Stout, if I recall correctly, it says that Ian Fleming suggested they collaborate on a book. Stout refused on the grounds that Bond would have gotten all the girls.
Jeff's note reminded me that in at least one of Ed McBain's novels lawyer Matthew Hope called a cop in New York for information, and reached Det Steve Carella of the 87th Precinct.
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8/4/2010 10:00:51 PM
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Jeff Baker
Posts 132
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Beer shaken not stirred? Wouldn't have worked out!
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