Crossover Cover: Mexico is Forever

Washington, D.C.-based P.I. Leo Haggerty asks another firm, Dan Kearny and Associates, to do some legwork in an inheritance case. Dan Kearny and Associates (or DKA for short) is featured in a series of detective novels by Joe Gores. Since DKA is in the CU, so is Leo Haggerty.

Crossover Covers: Dead Skip/Plunder Squad

P.I. Dan Kearny, investigating the attempted murder of one of his agents, visits the house where professional thief Parker is planning a heist. Joe Gores’ DKA novel Dead Skip and “Richard Stark’s” (pseudonym for Donald E. Westlake) Parker novel Plunder Squad each describe Kearny and Parker’s meeting from the respective authors’ own characters’ points of view.

Crossover Cover: Lost Light

Harry Bosch sees Elvis Cole driving his yellow 1966 Corvette and salutes the P.I. Robert Crais’ detective Elvis Cole is not referred to by name, but his description is unmistakable. Prior to this book, Harry Bosch had an unnamed cameo in the Elvis Cole novel The Last Detective. Since Bosch is in the CU through Joe Gores' DKA novel Cons, Scams & Grifts, so is Cole.

Crossover Covers: 32 Cadillacs/Drowned Hopes

These two novels show the same scene from different points of view, in which members of the Dan Kearny and Associates (DKA) agency repossess a Cadillac stolen by John Dortmunder and his gang of thieves. Since DKA is in the CU through Kearny's encounter with the ghost of the Continental Op, so is Dortmunder.

Crossover Cover: Hard as Nails

In this novel, P.I. Joe Kurtz tells his ex-girlfriend Rigby King, “My mother was a whore. I didn’t see much of her even before the orphanage. Once when she was drunk, she told me that she thought my old man was a thief, some guy with just one name and that not even his own. Not a second-story guy, but a real hardcase who would set up serious jobs with a bunch of other pros and then blow town forever. She said he and she were together for just a week in the late sixties…She said that he never wanted sex except right after a successful job.” The implication is that Kurtz's father is Parker, a professional thief appearing in novels by "Richard Stark" (Donald E. Westlake.) The Parker novel Plunder Squad shares a scene with Joe Gores' DKA novel Dead Skip, with the same scene being shown from the POVs of the respective authors' characters.

Crossover Cover: Cons, Scams & Grifts

Joe Gores' DKA novels are in the CU through a story where Dan Kearney met the ghost of the Continental Op. In this DKA book, a couple of cops receive help on a case from an L.A. Homicide detective named Harry Bosch. Bosch is featured in a series of novels by Michael Connelly. All of Connelly's novels take place in the same universe. Bosch has a cameo in Robert Crais' Elvis Cole novel The Last Detective, while Cole cameos in the Bosch novel Lost Light. Like Connelly, Crais sets most of his novels in the same universe. Bosch also cameos in Paula L. Woods' Charlotte Justice novel Strange Bedfellows. Finally, in the story "Red Eye" in the all-crossover anthology FaceOff, Bosch meets Dennis Lehane's Boston P.I. Patrick Kenzie.