The body snatchers affair : a carpenter and quincannon mystery

Format:

Book (large print)

Title:

The body snatchers affair : a carpenter and quincannon mystery

Author:

Muller, Marcia author

ISBN:

9781410476746

Edition:

Large print edition.

Publication:

Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.

Physical Description:

325 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.

Series title(s):

Carpenter and Quincannon mystery.

Thorndike Press large print mystery series.

Summary:

Conducting a dual investigation in the opium dens of San Francisco's Chinatown, Sabina Carpenter and John Quincannon search for missing millionaires against a backdrop of a brewing Tong war.

Subject(s):

Private investigators -- California -- San Francisco -- Fiction.

Women detectives -- California -- San Francisco -- Fiction.

Large type books.

San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.

California -- San Francisco.

Genre:

Large type books.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Detective and mystery stories.

Added Author:

Pronzini, Bill

Holds:

Available:*

Library	Call Number	Status
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A New York Times Bestselling AuthorJohn Quincannon searches a Chinatown opium den for his client's missing husband in the middle of a brewing tong war set to ignite over the stolen corpse of Bing Ah Kee. Meanwhile, his partner Sabina Carpenter searches for the stolen corpse of a millionaire being held for ransom. With the threat of a tong war hanging over San Francisco, they have no time to lose. Is there a connection? And why is Sherlock Holmes watching from the shadows?

Author Notes

Marcia Muller, novelist, short-story writer and anthologist, was born in Detroit in 1944. She attended the University of Michigan, where she studied writing.

Edwin of the Iron Shoes (1977) was her first book featuring Sharon McCone, a female private eye strong enough to compete in the male-dominated crime genre. In 1993, Muller was given the Private Eye Writers of America Life Achievement Award, and the following year her novel Wolf in the Shadows won the Anthony Boucher Award and was nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Crime Novel.

Muller is the co-author of the Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery series with Bill Pronzini.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (3)

Publisher's Weekly Review

MWA grand masters Muller and Pronzini's solid third mystery set in 1890s San Francisco (after 2013's The Spook Lights Affair) finds the relationship between PIs Sabina Carpenter and John Quincannon at a delicate juncture. Carson Montgomery, a metallurgist, is seriously wooing Sabrina, forcing her to deal with John's unrequited crush on her. Much to Sabina's dismay, a man posing as Sherlock Holmes is investigating Carson. Meanwhile, John goes in search of a missing attorney who works for the Chinese tongs, and almost gets shot during a visit to an opium den in Chinatown. Both investigators end up dealing with cases involving snatched corpses, though these plot lines aren't as strong as the authors' best. Fans of Shirley Tallman's Sarah Woolson books (Murder on Nob Hill, etc.) will enjoy this different perspective on the series' shared setting. Agent: Dominick Abel, Dominick Abel Literary Agency. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

Muller and Pronzini, crime fiction's First Couple, return with new cases for San Francisco PIs John Quincannon and Sabina Carpenter. Nineteenth-century San Francisco is a growing city with a colorful population. The wife of a missing lawyer asks Quincannon to find her husband, who represents the leader of a Chinese tong. The lawyer is also fond of smoking opium and enjoying the ladies of the evening in Chinatown. Quincannon finds him, but someone takes a shot at them, killing the lawyer and narrowly missing him He then finds himself drawn into a conflict that could lead to a tong war over the stolen corpse of Bing Ah Kee, head of one of the tongs. Meanwhile, the widow of a millionaire asks Sabina to locate her late husband's body, which has disappeared from the family crypt. Sabina also has a new suitor who is quite charming, but her detective instinct tells her that he may be hiding something. Readers will enjoy the historical details as they ponder the cases and wonder about the Carpenter-Quincannon relationship.--Bibel, Barbara Copyright 2010 Booklist

Library Journal Review

The third Sabina Carpenter and John Quincannon historical mystery (The Spook Lights Affair) has the detecting duo in San Francisco's Chinatown searching for a missing husband and a corpse while a tong war brews. There's also an ambiguous Englishman who calls himself Sherlock Holmes lurking in the shadows. (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.