Ron Goulart

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I waltzed with a Zombie

Great American Comic Books

To stay busy between movies, Groucho Marx agrees to act in a radio serial, but before the first episode can even be aired, his beautiful co-star is found dead, and he becomes determined to find her killer.

Groucho Marx, Master Detective

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 and his sidekick Frank Denby begin investigating. The victim is the German emigre director of the movie who was found in the great detective's favorite armchair, stabbed in the chest with Holmes's pearl-handled letter opener. There is another murder but it takes more than murder to stifle Groucho's quips or to quiet the laughter this surprising reincarnation inspires.

A Mystery Featuring Groucho Marx

Elementary, My Dear Groucho

Presents a history of the popular entertainment form from The Yellow Kid to Dilbert

100 Years of American Comic Strips

The Funnies

A history of comic books and strips, from the creation of Katzenjammer Kids in 1897 to today's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, offers insight into the characters, artists, and syndicates

The Encyclopedia of American Comics

His brain scrambled, Jake tries to clear himself of a murder charge Jake Pace comes to on the floor of a dungeon, where a robot jailer is killing rats. The last twenty-four hours are a blank; he doesn’t remember anything since he stepped into his skycar, chasing a tip on the Big Bang murders. For weeks the killings have stumped every officer in the government—costing six of them their lives—but a soprano named Palsy Hatchbacker told Jake she knew something that could break open the case. Before he met Miss Hatchbacker, a carnation-wearing goon spritzed Jake with a memory-wiping spray. When the police found him, he was sleeping peacefully next to Palsy’s corpse, a laser pistol in his hand. While he rots in jail, the Big Bang killer continues his rampage. Only Jake can bring him to justice, but first he must break out of an inescapable jail.

Big Bang

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, singing child prodigy Polly Pilgrim, a spoiled ingenue. When a prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon is found dead in his palatial home, and Polly's mother, the faded actress Frances London, is accused of his murder, Polly's request for Groucho and Frank to help prove her mother's innocence surprises them. She is convinced that Frances has been framed, and despite the mounting evidence against the washed-up perfromer, the pair takes on the case.

A Mystery Featuring Private Eye Groucho Marx

Groucho Marx, Private Eye

Robert E. Howard

H.P. Lovecraft

Jack Dann

Seabury Quinn

Resurrected corpses, voodoo conjuring, black magic (and blacker science)...these are all well known to cause zombie breakouts. Here are classic and modern tales, full of thrills and chills and the living dead...tales of zombies! These stories don't (well, mostly don't!) go for the gross-out. Great writing, lots of atmosphere and suspense (and the occasional laugh) -- if you want more than just extreme horror and gross-out scares, this is the zombie collection for you! Included are: SYMPATHY FOR ZOMBIES, by John Gregory Betancourt LARGER THAN LIFE, by Lawrence Watt-Evans PLAGUE PIT, by Sydney J. Bounds COOL AIR, by H.P. Lovecraft THE LAST BEST FRIEND, by C.J. Henderson UNDER THE SHADOW OF JONAH, by Jack Dann ZOMBIES ON BROADWAY, by Jack Dolphin SOME NOTES ON THE "ZOMBI," by Lafcadio Hearn THE HOLLOW MAN, by Thomas Burke OUTSIDE THE BOX, by John Haggerty WHILE ZOMBIES WALKED, by Thorp McClusky THE CORPSE MASTER, by Seabury Quinn WHAT THE MOON BRINGS, by George T. Wetzel NIGHTFALL ON THE DEAD SEA, by Ray Faraday Nelson BUB AND THE ZOMB BOYS, by A. R. Morlan THE MENTAL GANGSTER, by John Russell Fearn THE DIGGING AT PISTOL KEY, by Carl Jacobi CRIME AND AUTHORITY, by C.J. Henderson DEAD MEN WORKING IN THE CANE FIELDS, by William Seabrook HERBERT WEST: REANIMATOR, by H.P. Lovecraft I WALTZED WITH A ZOMBIE, by Ron Goulart BLACK CANAAN, by Robert E. Howard If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 260+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

The Zombie MEGAPACK ®

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: nervous, beautiful, and prone to meltdowns. In a last-ditch attempt to save their marriage, she agrees to a few sessions with a psychiatrist in San Ignacio -- a quack whose psychobabble is more sinister than it appears. But when Joanna disappears, Jim's only hope is John Easy, the hippest P.I. in Hollywood. Jim gives John a matchbook found in his wife's purse for a club called Maybe -- a swinger's hideout where morality is not in style -- and John plunges into the seedy side of sunny San Ignacio, where the copywriter's wife led an entirely different sort of existence. To save Joanna from her shadow self, John Easy will have to swing harder than ever before.

The Same Lie Twice

"Hilarious." - Kirkus Review In 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 serial. But when a beautiful starlet is found dead before production even begins, Groucho is determined to find out who killed her.

A Mystery featuring Groucho Marx

After Things Fell Apart

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, through the war years, the 1950s, to the present. Not only is Good Girl Art informative and fun to read, it is truly a pleasure to look at with over 200 illustrations from such legendary comic artists as Matt Baker, Lee Elias, Frank Cho, Adam Hughes, Joe Chiodo, and Dave Stevens.

Good Girl Art

Hello, Lemuria, Hello

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 wealthiest suburbs. Then word reached the Social Wing of the Police Corps that the daughter of the guerrillas' leader had information about the cause of the riots, and Sergeant James Xavier Hecker was sent to investigate. Hecker was an unlikely policeman: not only did he lack any overwhelming personal ambition, but he also retained a vestigial faith in the good will of the men and women around him. And his odyssey through the rubble of our consumption-oriented, gadget-filled, anything-for-kicks society-by turns surprising, appalling, and devilishly funny-makes an unusually entertaining and perceptive novel.

Gadget Man

Arthur Conan Doyle

Darrell Schweitzer

Gary Lovisi

Marc Bilgrey

David Waxman

Jean Paiva

M.J. Elliott

The second issue of SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY MAGAZINE includes contributions from Darrell Schweitzer ("The Adventure of the Hanoverian Vampires"), Marc Bilgrey ("You See, But You Forget"), David Waxman ("Tough as Diamonds?), Ron Goulart ("The Mystery of the Flying Man"), Gary Lovisi ("A Study in Evil"), Jean Paiva ("Max's Cap"), M.J. Elliott ("A Reputation for Murder"), and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ("The Musgrave Ritual"). Plus the usual features and columns!

Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #2

The Sword Swallower

John Gregory Betancourt

Meredith Nicholson

Lillian Stewart Carl

Christmas is a time for giving, for receiving. . . and for murder. We've collected ten Christmas stories, old and new, that will spike your eggnog, trim your tree, and hopefully add a dash of spice to your Christmas cheer. Included are: "A Christmas Pit," by John Gregory Betancourt "A Reversible Santa Claus," by Meredith Nicholson "A Stake of Holly," by Lillian Stewart Carl "Believing in Santa," by Ron Goulart "Death Will Trim Your Tree," by Liz Zelvin "Ho Ho Homicide," by Sue Ann Jaffarian "Mr. Wray's Cash Box," by Wilkie Collins "Murder on Santa Claus Lane," by William G. Bogart 2 tales by Johnston McCulley: "Thubway Tham's Chrithtmath" and "Death Play Santa Claus." If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 250+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

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