Ron Goulart, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $22.95 (213p) ISBN 978-0-312-32216-8
Groucho Marx and his sidekick, screenwriter Frank Denby, investigate the murder of Randy Spellman, a libidinous actor who plays a Tarzan-like character called Ty-Gor, in Goulart's amusing if routine sixth outing featuring the fabled comedian as...
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Ron Goulart, Author Crippen & Landru Publishers $17 (214p) ISBN 978-1-885941-58-9
Michael Z. Lewin (Family Planning) presents 21 criminal plots, including the Edgar-nominated title story, in The Reluctant Detective and Other Stories. ""Danny"" Quayle, the Lunghi family (Brits of Italian background), Rover the canine detective...
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Ron Goulart, Author Mysterious Press $17.45 (248p) ISBN 978-0-89296-191-7
Known to mystery and SF buffs as a novelist and prolific short-story writer, Goulart's natural interest in the genre led him to do comprehensive research on the history of the pulps from 1882 through their demise in the 1950s. The granddaddy of the...
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Ron Goulart, Author Walker & Company $16.95 (153p) ISBN 978-0-8027-5722-7
Missing drawings by a German artist of the '20s and '30s and art masterpieces hidden by the Nazis provide the motive for two murders in this absorbing mystery. Rudy Navarro, an operative with a detective agency whimsically named the Ajax Novelty...
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Ron Goulart, Author Walker & Company $18.95 (152p) ISBN 978-0-8027-5772-2
Wisecracks and repartee are the only distinctive elements of this otherwise quotidian yarn. As an ambushed Rick Dell lies dying in a Connecticut shopping mall, he utters ``ninety nine clop clop'' to former girlfriend H. J. Mavity, a painter of...
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Ron Goulart, Author Walker & Company $18.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3220-0
The breezy team of commercial artist H. J. Mavity and her ex-husband, professional ``voice'' Ben Spanner, follow their debut in Even the Butler Was Poor , with this slim, sometimes slow, tale of murder and blackmail. Shortly before his death in a...
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Ron Goulart, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-20892-9
Puns abound as Goulart teams garrulous Groucho with the comedian's writing partner, Frank Denby, for another Hollywood caper (Groucho Marx, Private Eye, etc.). When the two go to the set of a Sherlock Holmes movie, they find German director Felix...
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Ron Goulart, Author St. Martin's Press $12.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-312-34557-0
SF-novelist Goulart, author of more than 125 books, has written for both comic strips (Star Hawks and comic books, in addition to extensively documenting comics history (The Adventurous Decade. Here he offers alphabetical essays on the lives,...
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Ron Goulart, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (185p) ISBN 978-0-312-03440-5
A ``Tijuana bible'' is both a pornographic comic book and the key to hidden treasure in this lighthearted story of greed. Cartoonist Jack Deacon is astonished when a colleague he had not seen in years, Mutt Shermer, dies in his yard from gunshots....
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Ron Goulart, Author, Goulart, Author Thomas Dunne Books $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-19895-4
When a young singer offers him a fee for his services, Groucho Marx, PI, turns her down. ""So far we run our detective agency on a completely altruistic basis--somewhat in the manner of Robin Hood. If you can envision a middle-aged Yiddish Robin...
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