In all honesty, only one of these authors was familiar to me before this evening, but now that I’ve met them, all of their books sound interesting. Not that I’m likely to come across the work of one of them, but then again, one never knows. These all came from Part 19, by the way, working at the top of the page, or needn’t I have mentioned that?

ABDOH, SALAR. 1965- . Confirm correct date of birth. Graduate of U. of Calif. and CCNY; born in Iran and living in NYC. Author of one work of fiction included in the (Revised) Crime Fiction IV. See below.
      The Poet Game. Picador, pb, 2000. Setting: New York City. [A young agent is sent by a top-secret Iranian government agency to infiltrate a group of Islamic extremists in New York and thwart a terrorist attack.]

ABEL, JOEL S. 1938- . Confirm correct date of birth. Author of one book included in the (Revised) Crime Fiction IV. See below.
      The Jonah Game. Curtis, pb, 1973.

ABSHIRE, RICHARD K(YLE). 1945- . Add full middle name and year of birth. A former member of the Dallas Police Department; presently a reporter for The Dallas Morning News’ Garland bureau. Joint pseudonym with William R. Clair: Terry Marlow, q.v. Under his own name, the author of three cases for private eye Jack Kyle; and in collaboration with William R. Clair again, two adventures of a gent named Gants, a private eye whose cases took on supernatural overtones. Abshire also wrote one book in the men’s adventure series Talon Force under the house name Cliff Garnett. A paperback cover of one of the Jack Kyle books is shown below.

ABSINTHE, PERE. Add as a new author’s entry. Pseudonym of George C. Kelly, 1849-1895; other pseudonym: Harold Payne, qq.v.
      Who Shot Chief Hennessy? Street & Smith, 1902. Setting: New Orleans. (Novelized true crime.)

ADAMS, ERIC J. This combines two entries previously listed separately with the bylines now correctly identified. A producer, director, screenwriter, award-winner journalist, and novelist with three crime thrillers included in the (Revised) Crime Fiction IV. See below.
      Birdland [as by Eric Adams]. Hodder & Stoughton, UK, hc, 1997. Setting: California. “Katie Jacobs travels to Bodega Bay, California, where Hitchcock filmed the movie The Birds, in search of her long-lost brother … [he] has come under the spell of Madame Charay, a wealthy eccentric obsessed with the Master of Suspense.”

      Loss of Innocence. Avon, US, pb, 1991. Setting: Colorado, 1983. [Novelized true crime: Two young girls are murdered by another child, a 13-year-old neighbor boy.]
      Plot Twist [as by Eric Adams]. St. Martin’s, US, pb, 1995. Hodder & Stoughton, UK, 1995. [When the son of a true crime writer is kidnapped, the kidnappers demand the writer’s severed hands as a ransom payment.]

KELLY, GEORGE C. Add pseudonym: Pere Absinthe; other pseudonym: Harold Payne, qq.v.

PAYNE, HAROLD. Pseudonym of George C. Kelly, 1849-1895; add new pseudonym: Pere Absinthe, qq.v. Under this name, the author of one title included in the (Revised) Crime Fiction IV. See below.
      The Gilded Fly. Price-McGill Co., hc, 1892. Described as “a political satire” by Publishers Weekly, 28 Jan 1893.