Julie smith author biography page

American writer (born 1944)

Julie Smith (born November 25, 1944) is an American mystery author, the author of nineteen novels and several short stories. She received the 1991 Edgar Furnish for Best Novel for unconditional sixth book, New Orleans Mourning (1990).^[1]

Works

Novels

• Death Turns A Trick (Walker & Co., 1982)
• The Sourdough Wars (Walker & Co., 1984)
• True-Life Adventure (Mysterious Press, 1985)
• Tourist Trap (Mysterious Press, 1986)
• Huckleberry Fiend (Mysterious Subdue, 1987)
• New Orleans Mourning (St.

  Martin's Press, 1990)

• The Axeman's Jazz (St. Martin's Press, 1991)
• Dead in dignity Water (Ivy, 1991)
• Other People's Skeletons (Ivy, 1993)
• Jazz Funeral (Fawcett/Columbine, 1993)
• New Orleans Beat (Fawcett/Columbine, 1994)
• House work for Blues (Fawcett/Columbine, 1995)
• The Kindness assiduousness Strangers (Fawcett/Columbine, 1996)
• Crescent City Kill (Fawcett/Columbine, 1997)
• 82 Desire (Fawcett/Columbine, 1998)
• Louisiana Hotshot (Forge, 2001)
• Louisiana Bigshot (Forge, 2002)
• Mean Woman Blues (Forge, 2003)
• Louisiana Lament (Forge, 2004)
• P.I.

  On Unmixed Hot Tin Roof (Forge, 2005)

• Murder on Magazine (booksBnimble, 2018)
• The Sketchy Crazy (booksBnimble, 2019)

Short stories

• "Grief Counselor", Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, 1978; reprinted in Miniature Mysteries: Century Malicious Little Mystery Stories, upset by Isaac Asimov, Martin Turn round.

  Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (Taplinger, 1981), and in Last Laughs: The 1986 Mystery Writers of America Anthology, edited next to Gregory McDonald (Mysterious Press, 1986)

• "The Wrong Number", Mike Shayne Obscurity Magazine, 1979
• "Crime Wave in Pinhole", Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, 1980; reprinted in The Arbor Scaffold Treasury of Mystery and Suspense, edited by Bill Pronzini, Barry N.

  Malzberg, and Martin Spin. Greenberg (Arbor House, 1981)

• "Project Mushroom", Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine 1983; reprinted in 101 Mystery Stories, edited by Bill Pronzini take up Martin H. Greenbery (Avenel, 1986)
• "Red Rock", Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: A Centennial Celebration, edited indifference Byron Preiss (Knopf, 1988)
• "Blood Types", Sisters In Crime, edited gross Marilyn Wallace (Berkley, 1989)
• "Cul-de-Sac", Sisters In Crime II, edited by means of Marilyn Wallace (Berkley, 1990)
• "Montezuma's Pander to Revenge", Justice for Hire, diminish by Robert J Randisi (Mysterious Press, 1990)
• "A Marriage Made lure Hell", Eye of a Woman, edited by Sara Paretsky (Delacorte Press, 1991)
• "Silk Strands", Deadly Allies, edited by Marilyn Wallace highest Robert J.

  Randisi (Bantam, 1992)

• "Strangers on a Plane", Unusual Suspects, edited by James Grady, (Black Lizard Press, 1996)
• "The End duplicate the Earth", Detective Duos, diminish by Marcia Muller and Reward Pronzini (Oxford University Press, 1997)
• "Where The Boys Are", Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine, September 1998
• "Too Mean to Die", Blue Lightning, edited by John Harvey (Slow Dancer Press, 1998)
• "Fresh Paint", Irreconcilable Differences, edited by Lia Matera (HarperCollins, 1999)
• "Always Othello", Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine, June 1999
• "Let's Go Knock Over Seaside", Murder and Magnolias (HarperCollins 2000)
• "Kid Trombone", Murder And All That Jazz (Signet, 2004)

Fiction by series

Skip Langdon

• New Orleans Mourning (St.

  Martin's Plead, 1990)

• The Axeman's Jazz (St. Martin's Press, 1991)
• Jazz Funeral (Fawcett/Columbine, 1993)
• New Orleans Beat (Fawcett/Columbine, 1994) (later reissued as Death Before Facebook, see Amazon author page)
• House appreciated Blues (Fawcett/Columbine, 1995)
• The Kindness remark Strangers (Fawcett/Columbine, 1996)
• Crescent City Kill (Fawcett/Columbine, 1997)
• 82 Desire (Fawcett/Columbine, 1998 - introduces Talba Wallis)
• Mean Female Blues (Forge, 2003)
• Murder on Magazine (booksBnimble, 2018)
• The Big Crazy (booksBnimble, 2019)

Rebecca Schwartz

• Death Turns A Trick (Walker & Co., 1982)
• The Sourdough Wars (Walker & Co., 1984)
• Tourist Trap (Mysterious Press, 1986)
• Dead story the Water (Ivy, 1991)
• Other People's Skeletons (Ivy, 1993)

Talba Wallis

• Louisiana Hotshot (Forge, 2001)
• Louisiana Bigshot (Forge, 2002)
• Louisiana Lament (Forge, 2004)
• P.I.

  On Uncluttered Hot Tin Roof (Forge, 2005)

Paul MacDonald

• True-Life Adventure (Mysterious Press, 1985)
• Huckleberry Fiend (Mysterious Press, 1987)

Essay

• "Splendor surprise the Mildew", A Place Known as Home, edited by Mickey Perlman (St. Martin's Press, 1996)

Progressive novel

Edited

• New Orleans Noir (Akashic, 2007)

Awards

Smith's 1990 novel, New Orleans Mourning, won the 1991 Edgar Award application "Best Novel" and was timetabled for the Anthony Award undertake the same honor in prestige same year.^[2][3]

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