With Valentine's Day right around the corner, I'm posting a list of Sweetheart Sleuths compiled by Ruth Greiner. I've added a few 'couples', and I'm sure you have more. Make a comment, and I'll update the list. In the meantime, have a wonderful Valentine's Day!
SWEETHEART SLEUTHS compiled by Ruth Greiner
Alexander, Tasha: Lady Emily and Colin Hargreaves
Allen, Conrad:   Genevieve Masefield and George Dillman Porter
Allingham, Margery:  Albert Campion and Amanda Pontisbright
Arnold, Margot:   Tobias Glendower and Penelope Spring
Bell, Albert:   Michael Harrington and Corie Foster
Billheimer, John: Owen Allison and ex-wife Judith
Borthwick, J. S.:  Sarah Dean and Alex McKenzie
Bowen, Michael: Rep and Melissa Pennyworth 
Burke, Jan:  Irene Kelly and Frank Harriman
Carlson, P. M.  Maggie and Nick Ryan
Chappell, Helen  Holly and Sam Westcott
Charles, Kate  Lucy Kingsley and David Middleton-Brown
Christie, Agatha Tommy and Tuppence Beresford
Cockey, Tim  Hitchcock Sewell and ex-wife Julia Finney
Craig, Alisa  Dittany Henbit and Osbert Monk, Madoc and Jane Rhys
Crombie, Deborah Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James
Curzon, Claire  Mike Yeadings and Rosemary Zyczynski
Davis, Krista  Sophie Winston, domestic diva, and Detective Wolf
Evanovich, Janet Stephanie Plum and Joe Morelli—or Ranger—or Diesel—or not
Finch, Charles: Charles Lennox and Lady Jane Grey
Gordon, Alan  Jester Feste and wife Viola, late of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”
Greenwood, Kerry: Corinna Chapman and Daniel Cohen 
Granger, Ann  Alan Markby and Meredith Mitchell
Haddam, Jane  Gregor Demarkian and Bennis Hannaford (this one’s a stretch)
Ham, Lorie  Alexandra Waters and Stephen Carlucci
Hammett, Dashiell Nick and Nora Charles
Handler, David  Mitch Berger and state policewoman Desiree Mitry
Harrington, Jonathan C. J. and Bridge
Hart, Carolyn  Max and Annie Darling
Iakovou, Takis and Judy   Nick and Julia Lambro
Kellerman, Faye Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus
Kelly, Susan B.  Alison Hope and Nick Trevelyan
Kelner, Toni L. P. Laurie Ann and Richard Fleming
Kenney, Susan  Roz Howard and Alan Stewart
King, Laurie R.  Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
Levinson, R. S.  Neil Gulliver and Stevie Marriner
Lindquist, N. J.  Paul Manziuk and Jacqueline Ryan
Lockridge, Frances and Richard  Pam and Jerry North
Lupoff, Richard Hobart Lindsay and Marvia Plum
MacLeod, Charlotte Max and Sarah Kelling Bittersohn, Peter and Helen Shandy
McBride, Susan Maggie Ryan and John Phillips
McCafferty, Barbara Taylor & Herald, Beverly: Bert & Nan Tatum
McDermid, Val: Tony Hill and Carol Jordan
McGown, Jill  Chief Inspector Danny Lloyd, Inspector Judy Hill
Marsh, Ngaio: Roderick Alleyn and Agatha Troy 
Matthews, Alex Cassidy McCabe, Zack
Maxwell, A. & E. Fiora and Fiddler
Moyes, Patricia  Emmie and Henry Tibbetts
Newman, Sharan Catherine Levendeur and husband Edgar
Paige, Robin  Charles and Kate Sheridan
Palmer, Stuart  Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper
Pears, Iain  Flavia Di Stefano and Jonathan Argyle
Perry, Anne  Thomas and Charlotte Pitt
Peters, Elizabeth Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe Emerson, Ramses and Nefret,Vicky Bliss and John Smith
Pickard, Nancy  Jenny Cain and Geoffrey Bushfield
Pomidor, Bill  Drs. Calista and Plato Marley
Raybourn,  Deanna: Nichloas Brisbane and Lady Julia Grey
Rozan, S. J.  Bill Smith and Lydia Chin
Rubino, Jane  Cat Austen and Victor Cardenas
Sale, Medora  John Sanders and Harriet Jeffries
Saulnier, Beth  Alex Bernier and Brian Cody
Sayers, Dorothy L. Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane
Schumacher, Aileen Tory Peters and David Alvarez
Smith, Charles Merrill Reverend Con Randollph and Samantha Stack
Thompson, Victoria: Sarah Brandt and Detective Frank Molloy 
Whitney, Polly  Ike and Abby
Wilhelm, Kate  Charlie Meiklejohn and Constance Leidl
Wright, L. R.  Karl Alberg, RCMP, and Cassandra Mitchell

 
10 comments:
Craig Rice - Jake and Helene Justis
Dani and Dickie are ex-sweethearts who haven't quite broken free of each others' orbits and who do get into the middle of murder together. (MURDER IN THE ABSTRACT)
Wow
Wonderful list (lol on the Evanovich entry). I'd like to offer my own sleuthing sweethearts for consideration: Penelope Thornton McClure and Jack Shepard, ghost PI, from The Haunted Bookshop Mysteries, which I write with my husband under the name Alice Kimberly. Happy Valentine's Day!
Don't forget Cleo Coyle's wonderful Coffeehouse Mystery series - with Clare Cosi and Detective Mike Quinn plus the ex-hub, Matt Allegro.
This is a great reference list. Thanks for posting it!
Lydia Chin and Bill Smith are romantic? I've read nearly all of that series, and I thought they danced around romantic involvement, but never got too involved.
Can someone fill me in?
Thanks for the couples list. re: my own agenda: Manny Aguilar, the hero of my first crime novel (Devil's Kitchen, out on the Oak Tree Press label later this year), definitely needs compassionate female supervision and his girlfriend, Reina, provides it. I love the Nick and Nora model and I need to read more couples crime fiction.
It would also be fun to see a list of real-life, crime-writing couples, such as Tasha Alexander & Andrew Grant, and Jonathan & Faye Kellerman, etc.
What about J. D. Robb's Roarke & Eve Dallas? Don't they count??
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