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liberrydude's review
2.0
Written with his wife, each takes a chapter for their character and they alternate. Muller's P.I., McCone, meets Nameless at a PI Convention in San Diego near the Hotel Del Coronado. The back and forth switching was annoying and frequently I found myself attributing action to the wrong PI. Couldn't keep track of who was detecting what. Started out slow and then got pretty good as many seemingly related events went off on independent tracks but a growing death count gave the appearance of a grand conspiracy.
amalyndb's review against another edition
4.0
One of the earlier books in the Sharon McCone series, Double is a cross-over with Bill Pronzini's Nameless Detective. Both are at an investigator’s conference in San Diego, when a friend of Sharon's - and organizer of the conference - falls to her death.
This was neat, as the writing styles and descriptions interleave - alternating chapters feature McCone and Wolf (the Nameless Detective). Seeing the two styles juxtaposed was interesting, especially with a few chapters covering the same scene from the two detective’s perspectives.
(Interesting aside: this 1995 Mysterious Press edition has Charlene's husband as Nicky, rather than Ricky. Threw me for a bit, as I was realizing the name wasn't right, but couldn't recall Ricky’s name off the top of my head while I was reading. Unsure if he was mentioned in any earlier books.)
This was neat, as the writing styles and descriptions interleave - alternating chapters feature McCone and Wolf (the Nameless Detective). Seeing the two styles juxtaposed was interesting, especially with a few chapters covering the same scene from the two detective’s perspectives.
(Interesting aside: this 1995 Mysterious Press edition has Charlene's husband as Nicky, rather than Ricky. Threw me for a bit, as I was realizing the name wasn't right, but couldn't recall Ricky’s name off the top of my head while I was reading. Unsure if he was mentioned in any earlier books.)
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