The Crossover UniverseTM is a companion blog to the books Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1-2 by Win Scott Eckert, and the forthcoming Crossovers Expanded Volumes 1-2 by Sean Levin. Material excerpted from Crossovers Volumes 1 & 2 is © copyright 2010-2014 by Win Scott Eckert. All rights reserved. Material excerpted from Crossovers Expanded Volumes 1 & 2 is © copyright 2014-present by Sean Levin. All rights reserved.
Friday, January 2, 2015
Crossover Cover: Death Times Five
The Gunsmith series, written by Robert J. Randisi as "J.R. Roberts," is already in the CU. In the novel Death Times Five, Clint Adams is asked by Judge Parker to apprehend a group of young outlaws. Adams, initially unwilling to get involved, tells Parker, "So send someone to stop them. Send Bass. Or that fellow Murdoch you're so all-fired proud of." Bass is Bass Reeves, a real U.S. Marshal, but "Murdoch" is a reference to Page Murdock, a Marshal featured in books by Loren D. Estleman. Randisi refers to Murdock in two of his other Western novels, the standalone Texas Iron and Bounty on a Baron, which is part of a series featuring a bounty hunter named Decker.
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Yay, Page Murdoch is in!
ReplyDeleteBass Reeves was an interesting person. He was actually probably the best law man in the Old West, but never got his due. Largely, because he was black.