The light side includes the sentimental poems and ballads of Irish Literature; the legendary singalongs in taverns In this short story, Randisi tells a tale of the way a sudden gambling windfall can affect the lives of more than just the big winner. His venue shifts from Midwest Mississippi riverboats cross country to Reno, Nevada, and gambling points in between In this short story, Nick Delvecchio, the Brooklyn p. When Nick confronts the In this short story, a con Delvecchio put away years ago hires him to spy on his wife. A week after Nick sees her at their high school reunion, beautiful Mary Ann Grosso apparently takes her own life The Rat Pack - After Dean Martin saves Eddie G.
Randisi introduces readers to a retired captain of the NYPD who now spends his time housesitting wherever Heat has always sizzled between private investigators and the femme fatales who walk through their doors. But in this startling, original anthology, these 17 authors—many of them winners of the prestigious Shamus Award—from sizzle to steamy, illu Husband and wife gunfighters Kate and J. Blaze are hired to track down a gang of rustlers, but what they don't know is that they're going to find themselves in the middle of a three-cornered war, playing each side against the others.
When ex-sheriff Ken Burke is attacked and winds up in an unusual coma, the former hitman Sangster finds himself pulled into the world of Voodoo in order to save his friend. After the death of his estranged father, middle-aged insurance investigator Lazarus McKenna leaves Chicago and moves into his father's house—the house he grew up in—and establishes his business in Omaha, NE.
Eventually, his lonely life is invaded The Rat Pack - 9. Frank Sinatra puts him in touch with Eddie G. But rumour has it th Legendary western writer and noted anthologist Robert J. Randisi offers up a winning hand with fourteen never-before-published tales of the Old West, each revolving around the central theme of gambling.
Among the stories you can expect to be dealt he Three years ago, Sangster, a hitman, woke up and discovered he had a soul and decided to retire to New Orleans. Now, his former life has finally caught up with him. And they want him back or the alternative is his death. To truly escape his past, San After a spell of setting traps and livin' off the rough mountain country, Jack Pike got hungry for the fleshpots most men call home.
Meetin' up with hi Holed up at a trappers' camp when the winter snow hits, Jack Pike and his ornery trail pard Skins McConnell found good shelter for their hides, and enou Bob Randisi at his absolute best. He was so careful and clever that at first the cops had bodies but no reason to link the murders, nothing to indicate that they were the work of one man. That was at first.
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The Rat Pack - 8. Liz Archer-defying her nickname-is a devil of a shot. La Isla Bonita, a Mexican town of only women. Montalva, a ruthless bandit leader who wants to set up his revolutionary headquarters in that town. All fired up from trapping a load of fresh beaver, Mountain Jack Pike and his ornery sidekick Skins O'Connell pushed through some virgin bush into Fort Ha A brawling, broad-shouldered, bear of a man, he's the best d A Talbot Roper Novel - 2.
When Allen Pinkerton dies, and his sons send for Roper to attend the funeral, he has no choice but to oblige them. Randisi, creator of The Gunsmith series. As one of the most prolific Western writers of all time, Randisi brings his trademark fast pa Men fell prey to her angel eyes… and killing ways.
Angel Eyes lights a Mexican fire in the name of American justice! When she ties her orange banda He's the biggest hunk of man-flesh in the Rockies; he's mountain man Jack P When the abused wife of a brutal -- but popular -- man finally kills him, his friends in town want to try her for murder. A steel-fisted, bear of a man.
Jack Pike is the toughest hunk of man-fles When she puts on her orange bandana she threatens danger, when she removes it she promises incredible pleasure Robbed of her money and It was the biggest bank job the territory had ever seen: Angel Eyes - 6. There are two men after Liz Archer. One wants her as his lover, the other wants her stone-cold dead. Mountain Jack Pike - 5. Strapping and sandy-haired, he was made of the stuff men feared and women Angel Eyes - 5. Liz Archer turns guardian angel to help a woman saloon owner fight against town boss Ed Logan.
Liz Archer arrives in Loganville, Wyoming, for some peace and quiet. The Rat Pack - 7. Angel Eyes - 4. Innocent of the crime, she escapes from jail desperate to uncover the truth. With help from an oriental "lady of the evening," Liz learns A mysterious telegram from his favorite wildcat sends Tracker packin' for Oklahoma territory.
His wayward partner, the lascivious Dierdre Long, has cooked up a jewel scam and Mountain Jack Pike - 3. A rock-hard, brawling bear of a man, Jack Pike is the best bang-up beaver trapper in the Rockies—one of the last in a rapidly vanishing breed of h A Talbot Roper Novel - 1. A Mission for Dignity When former Pinkerton Talbot Roper receives a job offer from an ailing Civil War veteran whose Medal of Honor is about to be revoked, he agrees to help his fellow serviceman.
A Music City Mystery -. San Francisco's pleasure dens offered not only gambling, but opium, beautiful women, and a nefarious assortment of other vices. In fact, anything was available in Chinatown. New York private eye Miles Jacoby is hired to find a stolen collection of pulp magazines, but before long he's tangling with mobsters, hungry women and a sly killer.
He didn't count on much trouble Until he ran into Pat Garrett wearing a brand new sheriffs badge Mountain Jack Pike - 2.
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Rough and rugged as the mountains that bred him, when Jack Pike blew into town—raunchy, randy, and ready for action—all the men stepped aside Angel Eyes - 2. A notorious gunslinger challenges Liz Archer to the showdown of her life… or death. Liz Archer steps in to protect innocent ranchers from a crooked banker in Wyoming who is grabbing up all their land. Liz falls hard for widowed Andrew Carter after s Now, in this eclectic and electrifying collection, twenty acclaimed mystery writers take readers into the Mountain Jack Pike - 1. Ya'll know the story of Aces and Eights dead man's hand.
Part law man, part thief and murderer, Wild Bill was all that and more, and Randisi's story Angel Eyes - 1. An ache only revenge could heal. She got help from Tate Gilmore who taught her how to shoot like a man and make love like a woman. He called her Ang There's also a good deal of wit, and more than a few sly winks and pokes at other writers' work.
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Even more amazingly, the bulk of Randisi's work isn't even in private eye fiction--he claims to have written over novels in various genres, under a slew of pseudonyms. I don't think I've forgotten any. Most of those were used during the 80's, when I was writing twenty books a year--twenty-seven in ! This is probably the major difference between publishing today and then. It would be very difficult for an author to write that many books a year these days, although I'm still doing about fifteen or so.
In fact, Randisi's biggest claim to literary immortality may not even lay in the mystery genre -- it just may be the or so western novels he's pumped out, under a dozen or so different names, including at least nine or so different series, the longest running of which is The Gunsmith series over books, and counting , which he writes as J. Mind you, many of Randisi's westerns owe as much to private eye fiction as they do to the standard horse opera fare. Many feature hired guns, lone lawmen and Pinkerton agents, current or retired, as their protagonists, investigating crimes and tracking down the bad guys.
Hell, he's even written porn featuring a rather well-endowed private dick, with at least four short stories relating the adventures of Max Nolan, Erotic P. But fear not -- Bob does have scruples. He draws the line at romances. Although he has claimed he'd "write chick-lit if someone would pay me. He's also served as uncredited but not unacknowledged collaborator with Warren Murphy on the Destroyer and Trace series. Louis department's "number-one homicide man," and even more recently, a series of "Rat Pack Mysteries" wherein Frankie, Sammy, Dino et al get to ogle babes and make like dicks, with the help of Sands pit boss Eddie G.
Randisi was born in Brooklyn, New York, and although he has occasionally claimed to never have made a living other than as a writer, earlier bios mentioned his stints as a mailroom manager and a collection clerk, before nabbing a job as an administrative aide to the NYPD in He began writing at fifteen, and made his first professional submission at the tender age of eighteen, landing his first sale at twenty three.
At the age of thirty, he quit the police department to write full time.
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Like his Joe Keough character, he now lives in St. Louis with his wife -- and occasional writing partner, Marthayn Pelegrimas, a well-respected writer of horror and speculative short fiction.
Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith. But that's just one slice of the Randisi pie. But in my opinion -- not humble, but in this case, informed -- what's really special about Bob, and the reason he deserves every honor we can give him, is how much he's done for the rest of us. Only one valid passport allowed, Hong Kong says after Huawei arrest. Police investigating bus handbrake after fatal North Point crash. China slams United States over bill seeking easier access to Tibet.
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