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Pete Huntley

Pete Huntley is recorded in 7 distinct storys.

The texts identify Pete as Bill Hodges’s former police partner and later Holly’s partner at Finders Keepers, eventually retired in Never Flinch. The text explicitly gives Peter as the full name of Bill’s former police partner and Holly’s current Finders Keepers partner. Detective Huntley is Bill Hodges’s police colleague in the same Mercedes case and its continuing investigation.

Also recorded as Detective Huntley, Peter Huntley.

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Stories and supporting passages

End of Watch

Mentioned in the story

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In the course of their investigation, Detectives K. William Hodges and Peter Huntley interviewed a great many of those who had been present on that foggy morning, including all the wounded survivors.

The case history names Detectives Hodges and Huntley interviewing the survivors.

End of Watch ↗By Stephen King
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Detective Huntley is Bill Hodges’s police colleague in the same Mercedes case and its continuing investigation.

End of Watch ↗By Stephen King

Finders Keepers

Appears in the story

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When Madden turns off toward the main terminals, Hodges flashes a so-long with his lights. Half a mile farther up, he pulls into the lot of Midwest Airmotive and calls Pete Huntley, his old partner. He gets a civil enough “Hey, Billy, how you doin,” but nothing you’d call effusive.

Reviewed narrative excerpt depicts this character in the story.

Finders Keepers ↗By Stephen King

Holly

Appears in the story

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“Finders Keepers. My name is Penelope Dahl. I need to speak to one of the partners. His name is Peter Huntley. It could be urgent.” She decides that isn’t strong enough. “I mean it is. It is urgent.”

Penelope asks specifically for Peter at Finders Keepers.

Holly ↗By Stephen King
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Holly can’t sit still anymore. She gets out of her car, calls Pete Huntley, and begins pacing around the library parking lot, sticking to the shady areas as much as she can. That sun is still like a hammer—oough. The first thing Pete says is, “You took the case after all.

Reviewed narrative excerpt depicts this character in the story.

Holly ↗By Stephen King

If It Bleeds

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Since she’s the boss—a thing she still finds hard to believe—that isn’t difficult. Today Pete Huntley, her partner in the business since Bill Hodges died, is out trying to track down a runaway at the city’s various homeless shelters.

Reviewed narrative excerpt refers to this character; this evidence establishes a mention.

If It Bleeds ↗By Stephen KingCollected in If It Bleeds

Mr. Mercedes

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1st Grade Peter Huntley) described you as “a combination of by-the-book and intuitively brilliant.” A nice compliment!

The retirement article identifies Peter as Hodges’ longtime partner.

Mr. Mercedes ↗By Stephen King
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Detective Huntley too, of course, but if the papers and Internet reports of your respective careers are right, you were Major League and he was and always will be Triple A. I’m sure the case is still in the Active File, and that he takes those old reports out every now and then to study them, but he won’t get anywhere.

Detective Huntley is Bill Hodges’s police colleague in the same Mercedes case and its continuing investigation.

Mr. Mercedes ↗By Stephen King

Never Flinch

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Nor had Holly entirely given up the idea of luring Izzy over to the dark side, especially since her partner, Pete Huntley, had retired and left Holly to run Finders Keepers singlehanded (with occasional help from Jerome and Barbara Robinson). She was at pains to tell Izzy that Finders didn’t do divorce work.

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Never Flinch ↗By Stephen King

The Outsider

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‘Cancer. Pancreatic. Now I run the company with Peter Huntley. He was Bill’s partner when they were on the force.’ ‘Well, good for you.’ ‘No,’ she said. ‘Not good for me.

Holly names Peter as her business partner and Bill’s former police partner.

The Outsider ↗By Stephen King
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Except that wasn’t exactly right. The truth was she hadn’t been really excited about anything since Bill had died. Pete Huntley was fine, but he was – here in the silence of her nice apartment, she could admit it – a bit of a plodder.

Reviewed narrative excerpt refers to this character; this evidence establishes a mention.

The Outsider ↗By Stephen King