Mickey Spillane's friend Dave Gerrity incorporated MIke
Hammer as a buddy of his own PI creation Peter Braid, in the
1967 paperback original Dragon Hunt.
On 11/2/07, cptpipes2000 <
cptpipes@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > > > Hasn't this meeting of different
series main characters been
> > > > done in the past?
>
> This is a great topic. Here's a few that I can think
of off the top of
> my head.
>
> Connelly has done this wonderfully multiple times,
the standout being
> when the Terry McCaleb is investigated Bosch as a
suspect in A
> Darkness More Than Night. I believe recalling that a
distant relative
> of Bosch is the Lincoln Lawyer.
>
> In my opinion, Pelacanos has created such a vivid
and real version of
> DC, that he can have characters from various series
pop in and out
> without it feeling like a gimmick. Stefanos, in
particular, is all
> over the place in the books that followed his
series, but it always
> feels natural.
>
> I have a vague memory of Jesse Stone turning up in a
Spenser book.
> (Yes, I still read them. Sue me). This was nicely
done as well,
> because it was just enough of a wink without being
overbearing.
>
> A version of Brant turned up in one of Bruen's Jack
Taylor novels
> under a different name, but I was too dim to
recognize him until it
> was point out on this list.
>
> What am I missing? Fred Otash turns up in both the
L.A. Quartet and
> American Tabloid, but he was a real guy, so I don't
think that counts.
>
>
>
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