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A Love to Die For: Mysteries featuring Husband and Wife Teams

Husband and wife detective teams have been popular for a long time, in fact one of the first successful duos was Dashiell Hammett's Nick and Nora Charles of The Thin Man which later became a series of movies based on that one mystery.

Often one member of the marriage, the husband, is in law enforcement or a private eye and his wife is an amateur who just happens to be clever, relentlessly curious, and brave. This fashionable characterization takes the place of the commonplace Dr. Watson figure.

The more modern duos reside in grittier pages like Faye Kellerman's Rina Lazurus and Peter Decker, but most husband and wife teams fit easily into the cozy genre.

The following is a list of authors who fit into this category. One or more of the titles in each series is given.

AUTHOR	PROTAGONIST	TITLES
Steve Allen	Steven Allen & Jayne Meadows	Murder Game
Agatha Christie	Tuppence & Tommy	Secret Adversary Partners in Crime N or M? By the Pricking of My Thumbs Postern of Fate
Mary Higgins Clark	Henry Parker & Sandra Brien Britland	My Gal Sunday
Natasha Cooper	Wilhelmina "Willow" King & Tom Worth	A Common Death Poison Flowers Bloody Roses Bitter Herbs Rotton Apples The Drowning Pool Sour Grapes Creeping Ivy
Alisa Craig	Murdoc & Janet Rhys	Pint of Murder Murder Goes Mumming A Dismal Thing to Do Trouble in the Brasses The Wrong Rite
Gloria Dank	Bernard & Snooky Woodruff	Friends Till the End, NOT IN NOBLE Out of Print Going Out in Style NOT IN NOBLE Out of Print As the Sparks Fly Upward The Misfortunes of Others
E.X. Ferrars	Virginia & Felix Freer	Last Will and Testament Last Will and Testament Frog in the Throat Thinner Than Water Death of a Minor Character I Met Murder Woman Slaughter Sleep of the Unjust Beware of the Dog
Ron Goulart	Ben Spanner & H.J. Mavity	Even the Butler Was Poor
Dashiell Hammett	Nick & Nora Charles	The Thin Man
Carolyn G. Hart	Annie Laurence & Max Darling	Death on Demand Design for Murder Something Wicked Honeymoon with Murder A Little Class on Murder Deadly Valentine The Christie Caper Southern Ghost Mint Julep Murder Yankee Doodle Dead White Elephant Dead Sugarplum Dead April Fool Dead
Faye Kellerman	Peter & Rina Lazarus Decker William Shakespeare & Rebecca Lopez	The Ritual Bath Sacred and Profane Milk and Honey Day of Atonement False Prophet Grievous Sin Sanctuary Justice Prayers for the Dead Serpent's Tooth Jupiter's Bones Stalker Forgotten Stone Kiss Quality of Mercy
Richard & Frances Lockridge	Mr. & Mrs. North	Mr and Mrs. North (1936) NOT IN NOBLE OUT OF PRINT Murder Out of Turn (1941) NOT IN NOBLE LIMITED EDITIONS Pinch of poison (1941) Hanged for a Sheep (1942) NOT IN NOBLE OUT OF PRINT Death on the Aisle (1942) Death Takes a Bow (1943) Killing the Goose (1944) Payoff From the Banker (1945) NOT IN NOBLE OUT OF PRINT Murder Within Murder (1946) Death of a Tall Man (1946) Untidy Murder (1947) Murder is Served (1948) Dishonest Murderer (1949) Murder in a Hurry (1950) Murder Comes First (1951) Dead as a Dinosaur (1952) Death Has a Small Voice (1953) Curtain for a Jester (1953) Key to Death (1954) Death of an Angel (1955) Voyage into Violence (1956) NOT IN NOBLE OUT OF PRINT The Long Skeleton (1958) Murder is Suggested (1959) Judge is Reversed (1960) Murder Has Its Point (1961) Murder By the Book (1963)
Charlotte MacLeod	Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn Peter & Helen Shandy	Family Vault Withdrawing Room Palace Guard Bilbao Looking Glass Convivial Codfish Recycled Citizen Silver Ghost Gladstone Bag Resurrection Man Odd Job Balloon Man Rest You Merry: Peter Shandy. Luck Runs Out. Wrack and Rune. Something the Cat Dragged In. Curse of the Giant Hogweed. Corpse in Oozak's Pond. Vane Pursuit. Owl Too Many. Something in the Water. Exit the Milkman.
T.J. MacGregor	Quin St. James & Mike McCleary	Storm Surge Blue Pearl Mistress of the Bones
Haughton Murray (James Henry Duffy)	Reuben & Cynthia Frost	Murder for Lunch Murder Takes a Partner Murders and Acquisitions Murder Keeps a Secret Murder Takes Two Murder Saves Face Very Venetian Murder. NOT IN NOBLE Out of Print
Janet Neel	John McLeish & Francesca Wilson	Death's Bright Angel Death On Site Death of a Partner Death Among the Dons Timely Death To Die For O Gentle Death
Anne Perry	Charlotte & Thomas Pitt	Cater Street Hangman Callander Square Paragon Walk Resurrection Row Rutland Place Bluegate Fields Death in the Devil's Ace Cardington Crescent Silence in Hanover Close Bethlehem Road Highgate Rise Belgrave Square Farriers' Lane Hyde Park Headsman Traitor's Gate Pentecost Alley Ashworth Hall Brunswick Gardens Bedford Square Half Moon Street Whitechapel Conspiracy Southampton Row Seven Dials
Elizabeth Peters	Amelia Peabody & Radcliffe Emerson	Crocodile on the Sandbank Curse of the Pharaohs Mummy Case Lion in the Valley Deeds of the Disturber Last Camel Died at Noon The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog Hippopoamus Pool Seeing a Large Cat Ape Who Guards the Balance Falcon at the Portal He Shall Thunder in the Sky Lord of the Silent Golden One
Eve K. Sandstrom	San & Nicky Titus	Death Down Home Down Home Heifer Heist Devil Down Home
Dorothy L. Sayers	Lord Peter Wimsey & Harriet Vane	Whose Body? Clouds of Witness Unnatural Death Lord Peter Views the Body Unpleasantness at the Bellona Cbub Strong Poison. First with Harriet Vane. Suspicious Characters Have His Carcase Hangman's Holiday Murder Must Advertise Nine Tailors Gaudy Night Busman's Honeymoon: A Love Story with Detective Interruptions Lord Peter: A Collection of All the Lord Peter Wimsey Stories
Margaret Truman	Annabel Reed & Mac Smith	Murder at the Kennedy Center Murder at the National Cathedral Murder on the Potomac Murder at the National Gallery Murder at the Watergate Murder at the Library of Congress Murder at Ford's Theatre
Kate Wilhelm	Constance Leidl & Charlie Meiklejohn	Hamlet Trap Smart House Sweet, Sweet Poison Seven Kinds of Death Flush of Shadows

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