Character Naming -- any books with pun-like character names?

[Alex]

I've given one of my character's the name Gunner Sparks. He's into guns in a big way, so the name is pun-like. Have you read any suspense/thriller stories where the author has done this sort of thing? If so, I'd love to check them out. Thanks!

[Feliks]

Certainly. The character 'Fawn' springs to mind from my favorite espionage novel, .

Fawn is a horribly obsequious and sycophantic little brute who, assigned as a 'minder' to the frail and gentle spy chief George Smiley; develops a sort of obsessive mania for doing his job well; to an extreme degree of zeal. He proves --to some extent--very useful; but in every way is just 'not a gentleman,' as Smiley says.

[K.A.]

I always wondered about Mrs. Pollifax - seems awful close to polygraph.

[Marie-Jo]

Check out some of the cops' names in Chainsaw Jane.

[C.]

In "Two Thursdays" Patricia Marx gets married to police detective Terry Downe and becomes a police officer herself. She usually goes by the nickname Trish, but the other officers insist on calling her Pat Downe.

[K.A.]

I always thought Terry and Miranda would be good cop names, along those same lines...(Terry Frisk, maybe?)

[Kalena]

In Jo Nesbo's series Harry Hole's boss is named Bjarne Moller. I think of Barney Miller every time I read his name.

[Frank]

Ian Fleming was great for punny names (pun intended)and double entendres. Most famous of all: Pussy Galore.