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Sharon McCone
Created by Marcia Muller
"Marcia Muller is the founding mother of the contemporary female hard boiled private eye."
--.Sue Grafton
Generally credited with being the first liberated female private detective of the modern era, Marcia Muller's SHARON McCONE certainly helped pave the way for the later success of Sue Grafton's KINSEY MILLHONE and Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski. But I think it should be pointed that by the time people were starting to notice Sharon, P.D. James' Cordelia Gray and Liza Cody's Anna Lee had already started making their own mark across the big pond.
But who cares? Regardless of her historical significance, the McCone series is worth checking out. She's a likable enough character, and refreshingly down-to-earth, especially in this day of sociological and psychological misfit P.I.s. She's the staff investigator for All Souls, a San Francisco legal co-op. The Co-op was founded back in the late sixties/early seventies by Sharon's boss, and good pal, Hank Zahn, a lawyer full of ideals left over from the sixties. Sharon grew up in San Diego, one of several rowdy, trouble-prone "Scottish-Irish brats." To escape the familial turmoil, Sharon, the white sheep of the family, lit out for Berkeley, arriving just as the radicalism of the sixties was petering out. She worked her way through college, doing security work in department stores. She discovered she had a knack for the work and gave up her dreams of being a social worker when she landed the gig at All Souls.
In the last few novels, though, Sharon's undergone a few major shake-ups in her life. The loner PI seems to have found an apprentice, Rae Kelleher, and a permanent significant other, the mysterious Hy Ripinsky. She's also acquired a pilot's license, and, even more recently, she's left All Souls to open her own agency, aided and sometimes unwillingly abetted by her nephew Mick Savage. The changes seemed to have sparked Muller on, and the series -- which was growing a mite predictable -- has benefitted. And Sharon, still wearing her compassion on her sleeve, remains a compelling and intriguing hero.
She's now appeared in more than a dozen novels and numerous short stories, occasionally running into Bill Pronzini's Nameless, another San Francisco P.I., whom she calls "Lone Wolf." Like Nameless, Sharon's a pretty level-headed investigator who sometimes gets a bit too involved in her cases. And, like Nameless, she's been constantly evolving throughout the series, making each book in the series another chapter in a much larger story. By the way, in case you're wondering why Sharon and Nameless are so chummy, well, maybe the fact that their creators are married has something to do with it.
Her latest appearance in a Pronzini book is a cameo in his 2001 stand-alone novel In an Evil Time (2001).
In 1993, Muller received "The Eye," the Private Eye Writers of America's Lifetime Achievemnet Award, which is given for excellence and contribution to the genre for a body of work. It was about time.
UNDER OATH
"Does anyone read the McCone series anymore for the mysteries? I gave up a few books ago, because I found the emphasis had switched from crime to domestic issues. And I didn't like most of the new characters, especially her hokey, sucky boyfriend. OOOH! A government agent/pilot with a shadowy and possibly tragic past. Did she pick him up at a used character sale at Harlequin or something? I kept hoping for a plane crash."
(Nathalie Bumpeau)
NOVELS
Edwin of the Iron Shoes (1977)...Buy this book
Ask the Cards a Question (1982)...Buy this book
The Chesire Cat's Eye (1983)...Buy this book
Games to Keep the Dark Away (1984)...Buy this book
Leave a Message for Willie (1984)...Buy this book
Double (1984)...Buy this book
There's Nothing to Be Afraid Of (1985)...Buy this book
Eye of the Storm (1988)...Buy this book
There's Something in a Sunday (1989)...Buy this book
The Shape of Dread (1989)...Buy this book
Trophies and Dead Things (1990)...Buy this book
Where Echoes Live (1991)...Buy this book
Pennies on a Dead Woman's Eyes (1992)...Buy this book
Wolf in the Shadows (1993)...Buy this book
Till the Butchers Cut Him Down (1994)...Buy this book
A Wild and Lonely Place (1995)...Buy this book
The Broken Promise Land (1996)...Buy this book
Both Ends of the Night (1997)...Buy this book
While Other People Sleep (1998)...Buy this book
A Walk Through Fire (1999)...Buy this book
Listen to the Silence (2000)...Buy this book
Dead Midnight (2002) ..Buy this book
The Dangerous Hour (2004). Buy this book
SHORT STORIES
"Merrill-Go-Round" (1981, Arbor House of Mystery and Suspense; also The Black Lizard Anthology #2)
"Wild Mustard" (1984, The Eyes Have It)
"The Broken Men" (1985, Vol. 1, Academy Mystery Novellas)
"Deceptions" (1987, A Matter of Crime #1)
"Cache and Carry" (1988, Small Felonies)(with Bill Pronzini)
"Deadly Fantasies" (April 1989, AHMM)
"All the Lonely People" (1989, Sisters in Crime)
"Silent Night" (1989, Mistletoe Mysteries)
"The Place that Time Forgot" (1990, Sisters in Crime #2)
"Somewhere in the City" (1990, Vol. 23, No. 2, The Armchair Detective)
"Final Resting Place" (1990)
"Benny's Place" (1991, A Woman's Eye)
"The Lost Coast" (1994, Deadly Allies #2)
"File Closed" (1995, The McCone Files)
"Knives at Midnight" (1996, Guilty As Charged)
"If You Can't Take the Heat" (1996, MHCMM; 1998, Lethal Ladies II)
"The Last Open File" (February 1997, EQMM)
"Solo" (April 1997, EQMM)
"One Final Arrangement" (Summer 1998, MHCMM)
"Recycle" (Summer 1999, MHCMM)
"The Imposter" (2001, The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology)
COLLECTIONS
The McCone Files (1995)...Buy this book
McCone and Friends (1999)
TELEVISION
In 1993, a series of "movies of the week" for U.S. television were supposedly in production by the Canadian film company Telescene, based on the short stories and novels. I don't know what happened. As far as I know, they never surfaced...but in 2000, it was announced that Sharon McCone was being developed for CBS by Spring Creek Productions. The announcement was made by Charles Champlin at the Los Angeles premiere screening of Women of Mystery, a documentary featuring interviews with McCone, as well as Sue Grafton, and Sara Paretsky.
RELATED LINKS
Partners in Crime
An interesting interview with Marcia Muller and her husband, Bill Pronzini , on how they've found the write stuff in one another and in their 15-year relationship. Written by David Templeton.
Report respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith. Thanks to Bluefox808 for the tip.
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