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“Pronzini is a pro at PI fiction: he never cheats on the reader, respecting the conventions of the hard-boiled detective stories and puzzle mysteries he employs so well.” —Library Journal
“Pronzini’s crisp and wry style gives the latest installment of the Nameless series page-turning flair.” —RT Book Reviews
“Can doing first-rate work as consistently as Pronzini really be as effortless as he makes it seem?” —Kirkus Reviews
“Pronzini’s Nameless Detective series gets more attention, but his stand-alones are every bit as essential to most library crime-fiction collections.” —Booklist
“Pronzini is one of the best contemporary mystery writers.” —Library Journal
“One of the best in the mystery-suspense field is Bill Pronzini...He has been holding up the California hard-boiled PI tradition for thirty years.” —Washington Post World
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Biography
Bill Pronzini is the award-winning author of ninety novels, including forty-six in his Nameless Detective series, two others series, four nonfiction books, and numerous short stories. He has won three Shamus Awards and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for the best crime novel published in France. He earned the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of American and the Bouchercon Lifetime Achievement Award. He was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, making him and his wife, Marcia Muller, the second pair of married mystery writers to be so honored, with Ross Macdonald and Margaret Millar being the first.
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