His novel Bones was nominated for the "Best Private Eye Novel" Shamus in 1986. The next year, 1984, Pronzini won his first award for a short-story, winning the "Best Private Eye Short Story" Shamus Award for "Cat's Paw". The following year, he was nominated for his second Edgar Award, this time in the "Best Critical or Biographical" listings for Gun in Cheek. Pronzini won the inaugural Shamus Award for "Best Private Eye Novel" in 1982 for his novel Hoodwink.
His début novel The Stalker was nominated for the 1972 Edgar Award in the "Best First Mystery Novel" category. Pronzini has received numerous awards and award nominations for achievement in the mystery genre. His short story collection Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services (1998) is based in the 1890s and centers on Sabina Carpenter, a Pinkerton detective widow who is working in her late husband's profession.
Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, and Alfred Hitchcock's Anthology. Pronzini's work has also appeared in Charlie Chan Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Man from U.N.C.L.E. They have been published in a variety of markets, including some of the last issues of both Adventure and Argosy magazines, generally considered the first American pulp magazines.
Pronzini has written and published more than three hundred short stories. Otto Penzler, of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, has published a vodcast review of Bill Pronzini's work and career While the stories involve the usual range of crimes typical to mysteries, they depict relatively little violence. As of 2017, there are 46 books in the series, including a number of short stories. However, his best known works are the Nameless Detective series, which he began in 1971. He published his first novel, The Stalker, in 1971. They have collaborated on several novels: Double (1984), a Nameless Detective novel, The Lighthouse (1987), Beyond the Grave (1986), several books in the Carpenter and Quincannon mystery series, and numerous anthologies. He married mystery writer Marcia Muller in 1992. The first marriage was to Laura Patricia Adolphson (1965, divorced 1966) the second was to Brunhilde Schier (July 28, 1972, separated December 1985, divorced a couple of years later). William John Pronzini was born in Petaluma, California in 1943. 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. He is also an active anthologist, having compiled more than 100 collections, most of which focus on mystery, western, and science fiction short stories. William Hart Davis, Jack Foxx, William Jeffrey & Alex Saxonīill Pronzini (born April 13, 1943) is an American writer of detective fiction.
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