McCone and Friends Author:Marcia Muller Creator of the modern female private eye story, Marcia Muller has been writing novels and short stories about Sharon McCone since 1977. In the process, McCone has gained a host of associates and formed her own detective agency. McCone and Friends contains three stories told by McCone herself, as well as a novella and a short story narrated by th... more »e agency?s investigator Rae Kelleher, a story from the viewpoint of its office manager Ted Smalley, an investigation conducted by McCone?s nephew Mick Savage, and one by her long-term lover Hy Ripinsky.
The settings range from small planes to a sweatshop which puts Asian women into virtual slavery, and the mysteries surround a 1950s jukebox in a rundown hotel, a sculpture welded together by a long-missing and now very-dead artist. In perhaps the most moving story of all, a teenage girl has vanished, leaving as a clue only a collage on her wall. McCone and Friends shows us why Marcia Muller is one of the greatest mystery writers of our generation.« less