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MasoTey
Since: Jan, 2001
30th May, 2016 07:53:10 PM
Could these be Jake Justus and Helene Brand in the books by Craig Rice?
Edited by MasoTey
A series of detective novels featuring a pair of amateur detectives I'm fairly certain were set in pre-WWII America (but after Prohibition). They're not married, since a Running Gag across the series is the man's efforts to get a marriage licence are constantly foiled. The woman Drives Like Crazy (at one point she's taken hostage and goes from highway speed to reverse in a secodn to escape) is extremely rich, but the man's sense of chivalry forbids him to live off his wife no matter how much easier it'd make his life. There's also a bumbling cop whose every appearance features him talking about his lastest get-rich-quick scheme and dream job.
I think the author's name was Rice, and I'm fairly sure it's not The Thin Man.
Edited by Chabal2