Patrick Quentin was the pseudonym of two popular mystery writers, Richard Wilson Webb (1901–1969) and Hugh Callingham Wheeler (1912–1987), who first met at Harvard in the early 1920s. Their writing partnership began in the 1930s while living in New York, and ended when Webb died. Some books were written by one or the other of the pair alone, and there is some debate about the authorship of some of their earliest novels. Quentin's best known character is Peter Duluth, a wealthy playboy and amateur detective. Duluth was one of the earliest gay detectives in fiction.
Works written by Patrick Quentin
* The Puzzle of the Blue Banderilla (1933)
* The Red Widow Murders (1935)
* Murder at the Opera (1936)
* Puzzle for Fools (1936)
* The Death of Mr. Gant (1938)
* Puzzle for Wantons (1940)
* Puzzle for Players (1942)
* Puzzle for Fiends (1944)
* Puzzle for Pilgrims (1947)
* Puzzle for Puppets (1949)
* The Follower (1951)
* Puzzle for Prophets (1952)
* Puzzle for Princes (1954)
* Puzzle for Parents (1956)
* Puzzle for Pranksters (1958)
* Puzzle for Poets (1960)
* Puzzle for Politicians (1962)
* Puzzle for the Queen (1965)
* Puzzle for the Proud (1967)
* Puzzle for Pilgrims: the Further Adventures of Peter Duluth (1974)
* The Green-Eyed Monster (1979)
Works written as Q. Patrick
* S*S*S* Murder (1941)
* The Scarlet Clue (1943)
* Death and the Maiden (1945)
* Black Market Body (1945)
* The Woman in Red (1947)
* Death for Dear Clara (1948)
* The File on Claudia Cragge (1961)