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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Westerns with a mysterious flair
Pronzini's Carpenter & Quincannon tales combine classic fairplay puzzling with an impeccable sense of time and place and a quirky eye toward the humor of a situation. Pronzini may be the most underrated writer around, but his followers know that he is one of the best. The book as well as the 2 C&Q colelctions through Five Star are worth obtaining, as is BEYOND THE...
Published on February 6, 2006 by D. Greene
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3 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
pronzini needs to find better ways to keep reader involved
bill pronzini's carpenter and quincannon lacks clear focus and thought. While i read the book in hopes of being entertained, the various detective stories pronzini writes about are as elementary and outdated as the very events in time that take place. While he utilizes a clear and consice writing style, one that incorporates a kind of formalistic, European-Anglo...
Published on June 2, 1999
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Westerns with a mysterious flair,
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This review is from: Carpenter and Quincannon : Professional Detective Services (Paperback)
Pronzini's Carpenter & Quincannon tales combine classic fairplay puzzling with an impeccable sense of time and place and a quirky eye toward the humor of a situation. Pronzini may be the most underrated writer around, but his followers know that he is one of the best. The book as well as the 2 C&Q colelctions through Five Star are worth obtaining, as is BEYOND THE GRAVE, a cross-time C&Q novel by Pronzini and his wife Marcia Muller.
3 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
pronzini needs to find better ways to keep reader involved,
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This review is from: Carpenter and Quincannon : Professional Detective Services (Paperback)
bill pronzini's carpenter and quincannon lacks clear focus and thought. While i read the book in hopes of being entertained, the various detective stories pronzini writes about are as elementary and outdated as the very events in time that take place. While he utilizes a clear and consice writing style, one that incorporates a kind of formalistic, European-Anglo type, the content of a suspenseful, thought-provoking narrative definitely lacks. While he writes about various detective stints that his San Francisco detective agency encounters, the stories lack a good climax and fail to keep the reader guessing as professional detective stories often do.
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Carpenter and Quincannon : Professional Detective Services by Bill Pronzini (Paperback - October 16, 1998)
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