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Abbott, Pat and Jean. Pat and Jean Abbott were created by Frances Crane and appeared in twenty-six novels from 1941 to 1965, beginning with The Turquoise Shop; they also appeared in the Abbott Mysteries radio show (1945-1947).

The Abbots are a husband-and-wife detective team who solve cases around the world. They meet in New Mexico when Jean Holly is working as a store manager and Pat Abbott is a handsome private detective. They team up to solve a crime and then fall in love. At the end of the third novel they marry and move to San Francisco, where Pat keeps his office, and from there travel around the world as cases require. Pat is a native of Wyoming, tall and dark; he is an expert in most areas of detective work and very well read in anything that has to do with his career. Jean is short, pretty, independent and claustrophobic, and although she tries to help her husband he does most of the work. They have a small dachshund, Pancho. 

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