Created by Robert S. Levinson
(1936-2018)
Los Angeles newspaper columnist NEIL GULLIVER was once a hotshot crime reporter, but now he earns his daily bread dishing out the dirt on the denizens of Hollywood. He lives with (but is divorced from) TV actress STEVIE MARRINER, the “sex queen of the soaps,” who serves as his sparring partner, a pistol-packing Nora to his Nick, swapping wisecracks and solving crimes wherever they go. They appeared in five sassy–and frequently star-studded–capers by Robert S. Levinson.
Private eyes? Not really. But both Neil and Stevie are full-time shit magnets, and while they may not be looking to make trouble their business, they sure seem to step into it with alarming frequency.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Robert S. Levinson (1936-2018) was the best-selling author of the Neil and Stevie series, as well as several other thrillers (including ones featuring private security agent Josh Wainwright and 1930s Hollywood fixer Chris Blanchard), while his short stories appeared regularly in Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock mystery magazines. He was a Derringer Award winner, won the Ellery Queen Readers Award recognition three times, a frequent Shamus finalist (and one-time winner), and was regularly included in “Year’s Best” anthologies. He resided in Los Angeles with his wife, Sandra, and Rosie, a “loving Besenji mix.”
He was a tireless promoter of the Southern California chapter of the Mystery Writers of America, a ray of sunshine at many a mystery convention and just a fun and generous guy. I’ll miss him.
UNDER OATH
- “… funny, inventive, and hard to put down… Levinson’s debut should leave many ardently hoping that it just begins what ought to be a most entertaining series.”
— Booklist on The Elvis and Marilyn Affair (starred review) - “One of the funniest, sexiest, and best-written novels to come along in years; the words dance and sing on the page, the dialogue is often sidesplitting.”
— Nelson DeMille on The Elvis and Marilyn Affair
NOVELS
- The Elvis and Marilyn Affair (1999) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- The James Dean Affair (2000) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- The John Lennon Affair (2001) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Hot Paint (2002) | Buy this book
- The Stardom Affair (2016) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
SHORT STORIES
- “A Prisoner of Memory” (July/August 2007, AHMM)
Report respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.
