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Ron Goulart
Full Series List in Order
A Ben Spanner & H. J. Mavity Mystery
1 - Even the Butler Was Poor (Nov-1990)2 - Now He Thinks He's Dead (Aug-1992)
Exchameleon
2 - Starpirate's Brain (Sep-1987)3 - Everybody Comes to Cosmo's (1988)
John Easy
1 - If Dying Was All (1971)2 - Too Sweet to Die (1972)
3 - The Same Lie Twice (1973)
4 - One Grave Too Many (1974)
A Mystery Featuring Groucho Marx
1 - Groucho Marx, Master Detective (Apr-1998)2 - Groucho Marx, Private Eye (Apr-1999)
3 - Elementary, My Dear Groucho (Oct-1999)
4 - Groucho Marx and the Broadway Murders (Jul-2001)
5 - Groucho Marx, Secret Agent (Jul-2002)
6 - Groucho Marx, King of the Jungle (Jul-2005)
An Odd Jobs, Inc. Novel
Hail Hibbler (Aug-1980)Big Bang (Jul-1982)
Brainz, Inc. (May-1985)
Vampirella
1 - Bloodstalk (Nov-1975)2 - On Alien Wings ()
3 - Deadwalk ()
3 - Vampirella, No. 3 (Jan-1976)
4 - Blood Wedding ()
5 - Deathgame (1969)
Book List in Order: 81 titles
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If Dying Was All
- 1971
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John Easy searches California for a screenwriter's daughter who's back from the dead In 1972, Los Angeles is the wacko capital of the world. Gurus, junkies, and wannabe actresses all wind up here, and when one goes missing, John Easy is there to...
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Too Sweet to Die
- 1972
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A vanished jungle princess forces John Easy to visit the capitol of kook: San Francisco The jungle scenery is costing Marco Killespie a cool hundred thousand dollars. A stickler for quality, this king of television advertising doesn't mind writi...
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The Same Lie Twice
- 1973
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A copywriter's wife has vanished, and only John Easy is slick enough to save her Jim Benning makes $25,000 a year writing drivel for the admen at the Arbogast & Joseph Agency, and his wife thinks he's worth a whole lot less. Joanna is a model: n...
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One Grave Too Many
- 1974
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As earthquakes shake Los Angeles, John Easy looks for a missing adman John Easy never likes to get out of bed, especially when the woman beside him is as beautiful as Jill Jeffers, but no man can argue with an earthquake. The quake subsides afte...
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How Come My Dog Don't Bark?
- 1978
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Thirteen timeless classics of mystery -- all featuring unforgettable dog heroes -- are together for the very first time in Canine Crimes II. Culled from the pages of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, these often...
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Calling Dr. Patchwork
- Apr-1978
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An all-star serial killer terrorizes Earth’s smartest detectives Raffles Tunny, a juggler in the employ of the United States government, is relaxing at his Swiss chalet when a killer comes to call. He’s found the next day, electrocuted in the ...
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Hail Hibbler
- Aug-1980
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Jake and his wife grapple with a harebrained Nazi doctor.
Jake Pace is battling a bistro’s worth of robotic mafia goons when the government comes to ask him a favor. The Department of Big Business has a particularly sensitive murder o...
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Graveyard of My Own
- Jan-1985
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Soon after moving into their new home on the Connecticut shore, commercial artist Bert Kurrie and his new wife, Jan, stumble onto the corpse of fellow artist Beau Jassminsky and find themselves potential targets of a killer...
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Suicide, Inc.
- Mar-1985
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"No one knew who, or what, Whistler was--except that ""he"" was the mastermind of the Interplanetary Investigation Agency, known as Suicide, Inc. Its orders were issued through floating terminals and executed by androids and humanoids. And one human ...
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After Things Fell Apart
- Apr-1985
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The time is a few decades in the future, the place is what used to be the United States of America, now disrupted by internal factionalism as well as a short-living foreign invasion. Out of this chaotic background, Ron Goulart has produced an imagina...
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Brainz, Inc.
- May-1985
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Sylvie Kirkyard was co-owner of Brainz, Inc., makers of the world's finest androids. So when she was murdered, she came directly to Odd Jobbs, Inc. to find out who had done it. It seems that her firm had perfected a personality chip that guaranteed i...
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Galaxy Jane
- Mar-1986
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Interplanetary journalist Jack Summer discovers that smugglers plan to secret their supply of the deadly drug Zombium aboard an immense movie studio starship, and, with the help of his boss's daughter and a robot photographer, he sets out to get ...
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The Dime Detectives
- Nov-1988
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Traces the history of detective fiction pulp magazines from their origins in the nineteenth-century dime novels to their heyday in the 1920s and 1930s, profiling many pulp writers who went on to achieve greater fame...
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The Tijuana Bible
- Dec-1989
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After a dying man appears on his back porch, Jack Deacon becomes unavoidably involved in a series of bizarre coincidences--plots against a beautiful woman and a chase up the California coast--that culminate in his pursuit of the Tijuana Bible...
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Dick Tracy Goes Hollywood
- Jun-1990
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CRIMESTOPPERS' CASEBOOK: 1944 -- Everyone knew the beautiful Hollywood starlet's death was suicide. Everyone but a hack screen- writer -- and DICK TRACY... 1955 -- A new music called rock'n'roll is sweeping the country -- but someone wants one...
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Even the Butler Was Poor
- Nov-1990
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While investigating the killing of his ex-wife's former boyfriend, Rick Dell, Ben Spanner follows a bizarre riddle that leads to a ventriloquist's dummy and its dead owner, dark secrets, blackmail, and murder...
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Groucho Marx, Master Detective
- Apr-1998
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"Hilarious." - Kirkus ReviewIn this inventive mystery set in Hollywood's golden era, Ron Goulart revives America's favorite cigar-wielding comic--Groucho Marx. Needing a project to occupy him between movie stints, Groucho agrees to act in a radio ser...
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Groucho Marx, Private Eye
- Apr-1999
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Groucho Marx made the transition from screen to paper in Ron Goulart's widely acclaimed first novel, Groucho Marx, Master Detective, where he debuted as a radio star-cum-private eye. Groucho and Frank aren't enjoying their latest costar, sing...
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Elementary, My Dear Groucho
- Oct-1999
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When a body is found in Holmes's 221B Baker Street lodgings on the set at Mammoth Studios during the shooting of The Valley of Fear, Groucho Marx and his sidekick Frank Denby begin investigating, in Ron Goulart's hilarious mystery Elementary, My Dear...
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Gadget Man
- Jul-2001
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The Republic of Southern California was in serious trouble. The casually repressive rule of the junta was threatened, not only by the growing band of guerrillas in the south, but also by the sudden, inexplicable outbreak of riots in the Republic's we...
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Groucho Marx and the Broadway Murders
- Jul-2001
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In Ron Goulart's well received series featuring comedian-cum-amateur sleuth Groucho Marx, Groucho and his writer Frank Denby have made a name for themselves as detectives. In fact, in their last case, they were able to outsmart Sherlock Holmes, or at...
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Adam and Eve on a Raft
- Nov-2001
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WRY AND WICKEDLY MURDEROUS
Ron Goulart's first collection of mystery short stories features two of his most famous characters. Five of the stories are about Scrib Merlin, a would-be comedian and disgruntled advertising copywriter, who seems always...
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Odd Job #213
- 2002
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Such masters of the Science Fiction genre as Tad Williams, Brian Aldiss, Frederik Pohl, Kate Elliot, C.J. Cherryh, and Julie E. Czerneda contribute all new, original pieces of short fiction to this commemorative volume honoring DAW Books thirtieth ye...
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Groucho Marx, Secret Agent
- Jul-2002
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It could be said that in this episode Groucho Marx operates as a Hollywood-style Scarlet Pimpernel, with a repertoire of outrageous puns covering the steely, daring life of a counterspy. But, as Groucho might retort, his cover is at the dry-cleaner, ...
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Skyrocket Steele
- Sep-2002
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Is Peter Tinsley imagining things? Or did that frail, beautiful doll, Tracy Flynn, flip the gangster Dime Gallardo to the ceiling just as Dime was about to make macaroni out of Pete's skull? Pete can't get an explanation out of Tracy, and he's got hi...
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Groucho Marx, King of the Jungle
- Jul-2005
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Frank Denby and Groucho Marx arrive on the set of the new Ty-Gor film, a Tarzan knockoff, expecting to have Groucho do his humorous walk-on. What they find is that Randy Spellman, the star of the picture, has been murdered. Frank's wife, Jane, is onl...
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The Adventurous Decade: Comic Strips in the Thirties
- Nov-2005
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- Long out of print, The Adventurous Decade is now available again, covering the background and art of such strips as Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, Tarzan, Scorchy Smith, Dick Tracy, Terry and the Pirates, Prince Valiant, The Phantom, Brick Bradf...
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Cheap Thrills
- Apr-2007
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- Hermes Press is proud to announce the release of Ron Goulart's classic history of the pulps: Cheap Thrills. This book is more than just a reprint of Goulart's ground-breaking 1972 history of the pulps though. Hermes Press' complete redesigne...
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Good Girl Art
- Feb-2008
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- Noted comics historian Ron Goulart has produced the final word on good girls in the comic books with Good Girl Art. Chronicling the history of the good girl in comics from the beginning, in the comic book sweatshops of the late 1930s, throug...
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Good Girl Art Around The World
- Oct-2008
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European good girls, unlike their North American counterparts, aren't shy about baring it all in this companion volume to Ron Goulart's Good Girl Art, providing an in-depth, historical glimpse at Good Girl Comics in Europe. Featuring artwork from the...
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Murder For Dummies
- Oct-2010
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Each year, for the past seventeen years, Otto Penzler, owner of the legendary Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, has commissioned an original story by a leading mystery writer. The requirements were that it be a mystery/ crime/suspense story, that...
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Ten Questions
- 2011
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This book employs a unique approach to introducing and examining sociological principles by posing and answering in each chapter a question such as What does it mean to be human?; Are human beings free?; and Why is there misery in the world? The book...
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Harry Challenge: Victorian Supernatural Sleuth
- Jan-2015
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Vampires, werewolves, mechanical men -- it's all in a day's work for Harry Challenge, agent of the Challenge International Detective Agency! This volume collects both Harry Challenge novels by Ron Goulart, "The Prisoner of Blackwood Castle" and "The ...
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Alex Raymond: An Artistic Journey: Adventure, Intrigue and Romance
- Mar-2016
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Alex Raymond was one of the most influential comic strip artists of the 20th Century, creating action-packed art for Secret Agent X-9, the spectacular, classic imagery for Flash Gordon, and the nuanced, brilliant artwork for the detective/film-noires...
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Subject to Change
- Apr-2016
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“I could change, you see, and take things as all sorts of odd characters. If I was spotted and followed, I’d try to duck in an alley or a doorway and change again. The clothes are extra. Sometimes I could hide clothes in a lot. Most of the time, ...
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Star Hawks, Vol. 2
- Dec-2017
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"The classic 1970s science-fiction newspaper strip predates Star Wars—and nearly 40 years after its debut, Star Hawks remains fresh and exciting for new generations of sci-fi and fantasy fans.
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International Cheesecake
- Jan-2020
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Internationally renowned comics historian Ron Goulart and publisher Hermes Press present International Cheesecake: Good Girl Comics Around the World! Goulart is known for his writings on the pulps, comics, newspaper strips as well as having writ... -
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The Phantom: President Kennedy's Mission
- Jul-2020
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The year is 1962, and the Phantom returns once again in a new adventure! There’s a possible world war with Russia looming on the horizon, and newly minted President John F. Kennedy calls upon his old friend Kit Walker for help â€" let the action be...
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