Recently Marian asked:
"Anyone know something about Randisi? Maybe have a list of
his
books?"
Bob Randisi is not only an avid practitioner of the PI
novel, but one
of the PI novel's biggest fans, dating from the mid-60s when
he first
saw the movie *Harper*. He is the founder of the Private Eye
Writers
of America, and of its annual awards, the Shamus. He is
the
co-founder (with Ed Gorman) of *Mystery Scene*, the
professional
journal of detective literature (sort of to crime fiction
what
*Variety* is to show business). Under a variety of house
pseudonyms
he has also written scores of paperback westerns featuring
characters
like "The Gunsmith." I don't have a list of his books, but
his three
series PIs are Henry Po, who is the chief investigator for
the New
York State Racing Club as well as the owner of his own PI
agency and
who was introduced in *The Disappearance of Penny*; Boxer/PI
Miles
Jacoby who first appeared in *The Steinway Collection*; and
Nick
Delvechio who debuted in *No Exit from Brooklyn*. - Jim
Doherty
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