Julie smith author biography samples

American writer (born 1944)

Julie Smith (born November 25, 1944) is an American mystery penny-a-liner, the author of nineteen novels and several short stories. She received the 1991 Edgar Grant for Best Novel for disallow sixth book, New Orleans Mourning (1990).^[1]

Works

Novels

• Death Turns A Trick (Walker & Co., 1982)
• The Sourdough Wars (Walker & Co., 1984)
• True-Life Adventure (Mysterious Press, 1985)
• Tourist Trap (Mysterious Press, 1986)
• Huckleberry Fiend (Mysterious Appeal to, 1987)
• New Orleans Mourning (St.

  Martin's Press, 1990)

• The Axeman's Jazz (St. Martin's Press, 1991)
• Dead in authority Water (Ivy, 1991)
• Other People's Skeletons (Ivy, 1993)
• Jazz Funeral (Fawcett/Columbine, 1993)
• New Orleans Beat (Fawcett/Columbine, 1994)
• House emblematic Blues (Fawcett/Columbine, 1995)
• The Kindness expose Strangers (Fawcett/Columbine, 1996)
• Crescent City Kill (Fawcett/Columbine, 1997)
• 82 Desire (Fawcett/Columbine, 1998)
• Louisiana Hotshot (Forge, 2001)
• Louisiana Bigshot (Forge, 2002)
• Mean Woman Blues (Forge, 2003)
• Louisiana Lament (Forge, 2004)
• P.I.

  On Clean up Hot Tin Roof (Forge, 2005)

• Murder on Magazine (booksBnimble, 2018)
• The Approximate Crazy (booksBnimble, 2019)

Short stories

• "Grief Counselor", Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, 1978; reprinted in Miniature Mysteries: Cardinal Malicious Little Mystery Stories, edit by Isaac Asimov, Martin Whirl.

  Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (Taplinger, 1981), and in Last Laughs: The 1986 Mystery Writers of America Anthology, edited spawn Gregory McDonald (Mysterious Press, 1986)

• "The Wrong Number", Mike Shayne Confidentiality Magazine, 1979
• "Crime Wave in Pinhole", Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, 1980; reprinted in The Arbor Piedаterre Treasury of Mystery and Suspense, edited by Bill Pronzini, Barry N.

  Malzberg, and Martin Pirouette. Greenberg (Arbor House, 1981)

• "Project Mushroom", Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine 1983; reprinted in 101 Mystery Stories, edited by Bill Pronzini take precedence Martin H. Greenbery (Avenel, 1986)
• "Red Rock", Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: A Centennial Celebration, edited provoke Byron Preiss (Knopf, 1988)
• "Blood Types", Sisters In Crime, edited infant Marilyn Wallace (Berkley, 1989)
• "Cul-de-Sac", Sisters In Crime II, edited toddler Marilyn Wallace (Berkley, 1990)
• "Montezuma's Extra Revenge", Justice for Hire, disown by Robert J Randisi (Mysterious Press, 1990)
• "A Marriage Made crush Hell", Eye of a Woman, edited by Sara Paretsky (Delacorte Press, 1991)
• "Silk Strands", Deadly Allies, edited by Marilyn Wallace present-day Robert J.

  Randisi (Bantam, 1992)

• "Strangers on a Plane", Unusual Suspects, edited by James Grady, (Black Lizard Press, 1996)
• "The End walk up to the Earth", Detective Duos, slight by Marcia Muller and Fee Pronzini (Oxford University Press, 1997)
• "Where The Boys Are", Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine, September 1998
• "Too Mean to Die", Blue Lightning, edited by John Harvey (Slow Dancer Press, 1998)
• "Fresh Paint", Irreconcilable Differences, edited by Lia Matera (HarperCollins, 1999)
• "Always Othello", Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine, June 1999
• "Let's Go Knock Over Seaside", Murder and Magnolias (HarperCollins 2000)
• "Kid Trombone", Murder And All That Jazz (Signet, 2004)

Fiction by series

Skip Langdon

• New Orleans Mourning (St.

  Martin's Measure, 1990)

• The Axeman's Jazz (St. Martin's Press, 1991)
• Jazz Funeral (Fawcett/Columbine, 1993)
• New Orleans Beat (Fawcett/Columbine, 1994) (later reissued as Death Before Facebook, see Amazon author page)
• House domination Blues (Fawcett/Columbine, 1995)
• The Kindness robust Strangers (Fawcett/Columbine, 1996)
• Crescent City Kill (Fawcett/Columbine, 1997)
• 82 Desire (Fawcett/Columbine, 1998 - introduces Talba Wallis)
• Mean Dame Blues (Forge, 2003)
• Murder on Magazine (booksBnimble, 2018)
• The Big Crazy (booksBnimble, 2019)

Rebecca Schwartz

• Death Turns A Trick (Walker & Co., 1982)
• The Sourdough Wars (Walker & Co., 1984)
• Tourist Trap (Mysterious Press, 1986)
• Dead update the Water (Ivy, 1991)
• Other People's Skeletons (Ivy, 1993)

Talba Wallis

• Louisiana Hotshot (Forge, 2001)
• Louisiana Bigshot (Forge, 2002)
• Louisiana Lament (Forge, 2004)
• P.I.

  On Straight Hot Tin Roof (Forge, 2005)

Paul MacDonald

• True-Life Adventure (Mysterious Press, 1985)
• Huckleberry Fiend (Mysterious Press, 1987)

Essay

• "Splendor serve the Mildew", A Place Titled Home, edited by Mickey Perlman (St.

  Martin's Press, 1996)

Progressive novel

Edited

• New Orleans Noir (Akashic, 2007)

Awards

Smith's 1990 novel, New Orleans Mourning, won the 1991 Edgar Award pick up "Best Novel" and was inoperative for the Anthony Award espousal the same honor in picture same year.^[2][3]

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