Crossover Cover: Black and White Ball

 

Are you a fan of Loren D. Estleman's novels about private eye Amos Walker?

Then you'll love this novel, in which Walker meets another of Estleman's series characters, hitman Peter Macklin!

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Crossover Cover: Texas Iron

Brothers Evan, Sam, and Jubal McCall return to their hometown of Vengeance Creek, Texas seeking justice for the murder of their parents. Sam asks his friend, federal marshal Page Murdock, to recommend another marshal who can investigate. Page Murdock, the protagonist of a series of books by Loren D. Estleman, was brought into the CU by a reference in Randisi’s Gunsmith novel Death Times Five. Bat Masterson is described as not yet thirty years old. Masterson was born in 1853, so I have placed this novel in 1882.

Crossover Covers: No Exit from Brooklyn

I've done several posts here in the past about Robert J. Randisi's novels featuring P.I. Miles Jacoby, which have appearances by and references to several other authors' P.I. characters. The Jacoby books also frequently mention two other P.I. characters of Randisi's, Henry Po and Nick Delvecchio. I've not read any of the Po stories yet, but all the Delvecchio books have Jacoby and Po in them. Furthermore, in the first Delvecchio novel, No Exit from Brooklyn, Delvecchio, needing to enlist the services of a Boston P.I., contacts John Francis Cuddy at Jacoby's recommendation. Cuddy is featured in a series of novels by Jeremiah Healy. I just got Delvecchio's Brooklyn, a collection of nine short stories featuring Delvecchio. One of the stories, "The Vanishing Virgin," has an appearance by Ed Gorman's P.I. Jack Dwyer. Randisi obviously loves doing shout-outs like this, since his Gunsmith novels contain frequent references to Clint Adams' friend, Secret Service Agent James West (from The Wild Wild West) and a couple of his non-Gunsmith western novels have references to Loren D. Estleman's character Page Murdock.