Twospot, by Bill Pronzini
Sep. 11th, 2008 10:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aI just finished Twospot, the fifth Nameless Detective book by Bill Pronzini. It was a fun book because it was a crossover with Colin Wilson's Frank Hastings novels. I hadn't been aware of Wilcox's books before, but they're yet another mystery series set in San Francisco, but whereas Pronzini writes detective, Wilcox writes police procedural.
Though the book fit together fine as a whole, the differences in style were notable. Pronzini writes a much more casual book, and one much more focused on characters and their internal lives, while Wilcox is extremely careful with his forensic details and his case work. They both write pretty authentic feeling novels, unlike a lot of the pulp.
Early this year, I was looking for some mysteries set in San Francisco. I'm now glad to have a whole set of them, between Muller, Pronzini, and Wilcox. (And I've just found a listing of California mysteries by happenstance).
I've got one more Nameless Detective novel out from the library, Labyrinth. I expect to read that soon, which will get me 6 books into the Nameless Detective series.
Next, I'd like to find something more modern, since the three SF series I've got are likely to all remain stuck in the 1970s and 1980s (though maybe not; some authors are more casual about time passage than others).
Though the book fit together fine as a whole, the differences in style were notable. Pronzini writes a much more casual book, and one much more focused on characters and their internal lives, while Wilcox is extremely careful with his forensic details and his case work. They both write pretty authentic feeling novels, unlike a lot of the pulp.
Early this year, I was looking for some mysteries set in San Francisco. I'm now glad to have a whole set of them, between Muller, Pronzini, and Wilcox. (And I've just found a listing of California mysteries by happenstance).
I've got one more Nameless Detective novel out from the library, Labyrinth. I expect to read that soon, which will get me 6 books into the Nameless Detective series.
Next, I'd like to find something more modern, since the three SF series I've got are likely to all remain stuck in the 1970s and 1980s (though maybe not; some authors are more casual about time passage than others).