Gary Warren Niebuhr (piesbook@execpc.com)
Mon, 23 Aug 1999 06:36:53 -0700
>Didn't Robert J. Randisi write a book about a PI who
gets transported
>through time to the American Civil War? And I
remember that Ron Goulart
>has written some PI stuff in outer space. (Haven't
read those though.)
>Juri Nummelin
Randisi's book was written with Kevin D. Randle and it is
called ONCE UPON A MURDER. This is a strange little book, and
not just because it is a fantasy crossover. Miles Paladon is
a 1939 era Chicago P. I. pulled into the land of Palandrum
after he takes a bullet in a Chicago backalley. It seems that
Paladon, the heir to the throne of Palandrum, has taken an
arrow in combat against the Queen of Daman, and sorcery has
united these dopplegangers across time and space. Living as
two men in one body in Palandrum, the two men have a running
internal dialog which leads the Prince to hire the P. I. to
find out who tried to murder the Prince. Not really
hard-boiled enough to be interesing and not credible enough
as a fantasy to be mystifying. Randisi gets better.
To say Ron Goulart writes crossover is an understatement. His
P. I. crosover series include books about Jim Haley, Ben
Jolson, Hildy and Jake Pace, Jared Smith plus his regular P.
I.s Rudy Navarro, Johnny Easy, and his latest--Groucho
Marx!
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