Bill Pronzini (born April 13, 1943) is an American writer of detective fiction. He is also an active anthologist, having compiled more than 100 collections, most of which focus on mystery, western, and science fiction short stories. Pronzini is known as the creator of the San Francisco-based Nameless Detective, who starred in over 40 books from the early 1970s into the 2000s.
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Fiction, Private investigators, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Nameless Detective (Fictitious character), Large type books, American Detective and mystery stories, Private investigators, fiction, Detective and mystery stories, San francisco (calif.), fiction, Nameless detective (fictitious character), fiction, Western stories, California, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, English Detective and mystery stories, American fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, westerns, American Science fiction, American Horror tales, American Short stories, English fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, historical, Crimes against, Fiction in English, Fiction, short stories (single author)Places
California, San Francisco, San Francisco (Calif.), Northern California, West (U.S.), Los Angeles, Nevada, India, Los Angeles (Calif.), Oregon, Virgin Islands of the United States, Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.), English-speaking countries, Italy, Jefferson, Las Vegas (Nev.), Mississippi, Montana, Padua, United States, University of Padua, West United States, Yoknapatawpha County, Alabama, ArizonaPeople
Beatrice Rappaccini, Colonel Sartoris, Emily Grierson, Giacomo Rappaccini, Giovanni Guasconti, Homer Barron, John H. Watson, Mr. Grierson, Sherlock Holmes, Tobe, 'nameless detective', Bill Pronzini, C. Auguste Dupin, Colonel Ross, Fitzroy Simpson, Grimesby Roylott, Helen Stoner, Inspector Gregory, John Quincannon, John Quincannon (Fictitious character), John Straker, Mary Maloney, Minister D—, Ned Hunter, Patrick MaloneyID Numbers
- OLID: OL30267A
- BookBrainz: e79b68fe-6475-472e-b6bd-57eb148ab1f3
- ISNI: 000000011447554X
- IMDb: nm0698679
- Library of Congress Names: n78095746
- LibraryThing: pronzinibill
- VIAF: 71396523
- Wikidata: Q862387
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q862387
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