Research Catalog

Title

Crucifixion River : western stories / Marcia Muller, Bill Pronzini.

Author

Muller, Marcia

Publication

Waterville, Me. : Five Star, 2007.

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Additional Authors

Pronzini, Bill

Description

230 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

• ""Crucifixion River" is a short novel that marks the first time Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini have collaborated on a Western story. It is set at a stage station in the river delta area of California, fifty miles inland from San Francisco where the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers merge. It is a drama that is finally played out in the ghostly remains of the town once built by the Crucifixion River religious cult that was driven out from the area years before" -- publisher website (December 2007).
• "In "The Carville Ghost," Quincannon investigates the nocturnal appearances of a mysterious apparition. Sabina Carpenter, in her first solo case, investigates a series of pickpocket robberies occurring at crowded amusement parks and market places" -- publisher website (December 2007).
• "Bill Pronzini's "Nameless Detective" makes an appearance in the story "Wrong Place, Wrong Time," as does Marcia Muller's popular female operative, Sharon McCone" -- publisher website (December 2007).
• "In "Irrefutable Evidence," McCone is challenged by the almost impossible task of exonerating a man imprisoned for the murder of his mistress near a secluded cabin in the mountains in which all the evidence clearly points to his guilt" -- publisher website (December 2007).

Alternative Title

Western stories

Subject

• Quincannon, John > Fiction
• Carpenter, Sabina > Fiction
• Western stories
• California > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Western stories.
• Western fiction.
• Detective and mystery stories.
• Detective and mystery fiction.
• Western stories
• Short stories.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Crucifixion River / by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini -- Free durt / by Bill Pronzini -- He said-- she said / by Marcia Muller -- Wrong place, wrong time (a "Nameless Detective" story) / by Bill Pronzini -- Irrefutable evidence (a Sharon McCone story) / by Marcia Muller -- The Carville ghost (a John Quincannon story) / by Bill Pronzini -- Pickpocket (a Sabina Carpenter story) / by Marcia Muller -- The dying time / by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini.

ISBN

• 1594145563 (alk. paper)
• 9781594145568 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007020545

OCLC

• 137244652
• SCSB-11462081

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library