Anthony F. Franco
Buckley, William F. Jr.
Saving the Queen
. Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976.
Buckley’s first novel which introduces readers to his fictional CIA agent, Blackford Oakes. The Queen of England becomes the young investigator’s foil in this superb effort.
Christie, Agatha.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
. New York: Pocket Books, 1954. (Originally published by Dodd, Mead and Company, 1926.)
A Poirot mystery in which Hastings is not the foil. A novel with an ironic twist which must be read.
Christie, Agatha.
Sleeping Murder
. New York: Bantam Books, 1977. (Originally published by Dodd, Mead and Company, 1976.)
A Jane Marple mystery that features two very inquisitive and lovable newlyweds as foils.
Guthrie, A.B. Jr.
No Second Wind
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980.
Sheriff Chick Charleston and young Jason Beard are the detective-foil tandem in a very suspenseful and entertaining modern Western by one of the best storytellers in the genre.
McClure, James.
The Steam Pig
. New York: Pantheon Books, 1982. (Originally published in 1971.)
Detectives Kramer and Zondi are the South African team which tries to solve the riddle in this tale of murder. Graphic violence and language.
Poe, Edgar Allan.
Complete Stories
. New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1966.
The father of detective fiction creates his famous C. Auguste Dupin in three memorable short stories.
Waugh, Hillary.
Last Seen Wearing . . .
. New York: Harper and Row Publishers Perennial Library, 1981. (Originally published by Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1952.)
Frank Ford and Burt Cameron try to find a missing college co-ed and then track her murderer.