I was working on Part 21 this afternoon, the books falling into a wide range of categories. Note the cover by Robert McGinnis on one of Hard Case Crime’s most recent offerings.

KUHN, GEORGE ROBERT. Born and educated in Columbus, Ohio. Indicate that his full name is used on his collection of short stories already included in the (Revised) Crime Fiction IV. Add SC: Joe John Jameson = JJ. [A private detective based in Newark NJ, but whose cases take him all over the world.]
      Comic Tragedy. Vantage, hc, 1967. Add: Story collection, all with JJ (contents below).

         The Cat Burglar’s Friend and The Joneses
         The Gangster and the Girl
         The Haunted House
         The Invisible Man of Ohio
         Mr. Cartridge’s Deal
         One Man’s Town
         The Reform School Boy
         The Town Drunk Rebuilt

KURTZ, SYLVIE (LANGLOIS). 1960- . Add full middle name and year of birth. Author of many romance novels, many having criminous components. Add the one indicated with a (*) below. This is now the complete entry for her in the (Revised) Crime Fiction IV.
      Blackmailed Bride. Harlequin, pb, 2000. Setting: New Hampshire. “Dr. Jonas Shades needed someone to play his wife … with time running short, he had no choice but to blackmail his bride…”

      -Broken Wings. Leisure, pb, 1996. Setting: Texas. [Time-travel romance: pilot from the present returns to the past to help a woman fulfill her murdered fiancé’s dream. ]
      One Texas Night. Harlequin, US, pb, 1998; Silhouette, UK, pb, 2000. Add setting: “In the midst of a Texas thunder storm, Melinda Amery witnesses her neighbor’s murder and … wakes up in a jail cell, her memory fractured…”
      * -Silver Shadows. Leisure, pb, 1997. “… all the elements that readers of romantic suspense desire: suspense, romance, a brooding hero, a forceful heroine, and a figure of unbearable evil to be destroyed.”

KYLE, ROBERT. Pseudonym of Robert Terrall, 1914- , q.v. Under this pen name, the author of nine mystery & detective novels included in the (Revised) Crime Fiction IV, all published as Dell paperback originals between 1954 and 1964. Private eye Ben Gates appeared in five of them, including the one below.
      Kill Now, Pay Later. Dell, pb, 1960. Mayflower, UK, pb, 1965. SC: PI Ben Gates. Add: Also published as by Robert Terrall, q.v: Hard Case, pb, 2007.

TERRALL, ROBERT. 1914- . Pseudonyms: Robert Kyle, q.v., John Gonzales. Under his own name, the author of four novels included in the (Revised) Crime Fiction IV. As Kyle, nine additional; and as Gonzales, five more. When Davis Dresser stopped writing Mike Shayne novels under his “Brett Halliday” byline, Terrall took over in part and wrote another 25 of them, mostly as Dell paperback originals.
      Kill Now, Pay Later. Hard Case Crime, pb, 2007. Previously published as by Robert Kyle. SC: PI Ben Gates. “Gates takes a job guarding the presents at a ritzy upper-class wedding.”