Retro Interview: Robert J. Randisi
An Interview with Robert J. Randisi from August 2008 Robert J. Randisi passed away earlier this week. He was born on August 24, 1951, in Brooklyn, New York. Randisi wrote more than 500 novels across parts of five decades. His first published novel was the mystery, The Disappearance of Penny (1980), which appeared around the same time as his ghost written, Destroyer #40, Dangerous Games , by Warren Murphy. He created the long-running Gunsmith series (and wrote nearly all its reported 466 entries), which is published under his J.R. Roberts pseudonym. Randisi was a versatile writer that wrote in the mystery, thriller, horror, adventure, and western genres. He received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly for his excellent mystery novel Alone with the Dead , and he was called the “next Louis L’Amour” by author Jake Foster. Randisi co-founded, with Ed Gorman, Mystery Scene Magazine . He founded the Private Eye Writer’s of Ame
