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Robert Edmond Alter is remembered chiefly for two novels, paperback originals from the 1960s: "Swamp Sister" (1961) and "Carny Kill" (1966). He also wrote children's novels and sold stories to some of the top magazines of his day, including the "Saturday Evening Post" and "Argosy".
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Robert Edmond Alter’s claim to fame may be as the writer of two classic Gold Medal crime novels, Swamp Sister and Carny Kill (both 1966), but he also made a dent in short fiction as well. Over 40 stories for the digests ( Mike Shayne, Manhunt, Man From UNCLE, Trapped) and dozens more for slicks such as Argosy and The Saturday Evening Post .
Oct 1, 2009 · The story is older—published in 1963—and the author is new to me: Robert Edmond Alter. Alter died young. He was born in 1925 and died in 1966. He wrote two Gold Medal novels that were reprinted by Black Lizard in the 1980s (Carny Kill and Swamp Sister) and a myriad of short stories. I read his short story “Killer in the Dark”—Alfred ...
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Alter, Robert Edmond. Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author. (1925-1965) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Coup de Grace" for Bizarre! Mystery Magazine in October 1965, and who wrote some stories as by Robert Retla; his only sf novel, the posthumous Path to Savagery ( 1969 ), depicts a devastating Future War ...
Feb 26, 2021 · Robert Edmond Alter is one of the great "undiscovered" mystery writers. Alter died at the age of 40 and completed only three mystery novels. Those that he finished, however, are quite good. Thieves Like Us concerns an unethical archeologist who is arrested in Egypt for conducting an excavation without a permit.
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Robert Edmond Alter. Writer: Ravagers. Robert Edmond Alter was born on 10 December 1925 in San Francisco, California, USA. Robert Edmond was a writer, known for Ravagers (1979), Tales of the Unexpected (1979) and The Magical World of Disney (1954).
