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Bob's Novel "Tap Dance"
Order now from your favorite WHAT'S NEWEST ADVANCE PRAISE High adventure, low motives, and witty writing bring
the old Wild West to fire-breathing life in Tap Dance, a tour de force
by the late and truly great Robert S. Levinson. You’ll revel in
characters and towns with odd names, situations that could have happened
and maybe even did, and a crime-riddled tale that melds charm and
suspense into a memorable novelistic brew. Put out the Do Not Disturb
sign and settle in. Once you enter the wildly entertaining world of Tap
Dance, you won’t want to leave. A richly layered story teeming with memorable people
and the times and places in which they lived, TAP DANCE is a sure
winner! After penning a series of popular crime novels,
Levinson has done a surprising turnabout, crafting a brilliant
picaresque wild west adventure that reads as if Kurt Vonnegut had taken
a bold leap into Larry McMurtry territory. McDukes and Swaney, the
book’s two rompin’, stompin’ likeable antiheroes are great company on
this breezy, breathless, and at times brutally funny gallop though a
slice of almost true American history. Their reckless romances,
courageous gunfights and death defying heroics, recounted with
tongue-in-cheek by their amazingly adaptable pal Buchanan, deserve a
spot on the same favored shelf as Thomas Berger’s LITTLE BIG MAN and
Charles Portis’ TRUE GRIT. "An infectious narrative voice, vivid characters and
lively plot make this read like a Western novel from an old pro, rather
than a first Western novel. Robert Levinson has proven himself to be
equally adept at any genre he chooses to write in. Swaney and McDukes
are the best duo to come along since Larry McMurtry's Gus and Call in
LOVESOME DOVE."
Bob talked about the return after ten-plus years of L.A. newspaper columnist Neil Gulliver and his ex-wife, "Sex Queen of the Soaps" Stevie Marriner, in THE STARDOM AFFAIR on the blog conducted by award-winning author Ed Gorman in his blog Read more about Bob at OF NOTE... Bob's Derringer Award-winning short story, "The Quick Brown Fox," which first appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, is included in the new anthology, Between the Dark and The Daylight and 27 More of the Year's Finest Crime & Mystery Stories from Tyrus Books (ISBN 10: 0982520956 and ISBN 13: 978-0982520956), joining work by Joyce Carol Oates, T. Jefferson Parker, Michael Connelly, Peter Robinson, Doug Allyn, Charlaine Harris and others
Bob’s short story is the title
piece in the anthology A Prisoner of Memory and 24 of the Year’s
Finest Crime and Mystery Stories, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and
Ed Gorman; Pegasus Books
AN ELLERY QUEEN MYSTERY MAGAZINE
READERS AWARD WINNER
THREE CONSECUTIVE YEARS
"Death Conquers All"
"The Man in the Van"
and
"Take My Word for It and
You Don't Have to Answer"
MURDER TIMES TWO Comprising two one-act stage plays by Bob and nominated for an “Angie” award of the International Mystery Writers Festival was performed during the annual IMWF fest in June, 2008, at RiverPark Center in Owensboro, KY
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