Richard Martin Stern

A Johnny Ortiz Mystery

You Don't Need an Enemy (1971)
Tangled Murders (Jan-1989)
Murder in the Walls (Mar-1989)
Death in the Snow (Oct-1989)
Missing Man (Jan-1990)

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  The Bright Road to Fear
  

  • 1959
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  The Bright Road to Fear, first published in 1958, received the Edgar Award for best first novel for author Richard Martin Stern. The book describes an ambitious Italian crime syndicate and a young American who becomes involved in their shady dealings...

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  You Don't Need an Enemy
  

  • 1971
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  A Johnny Ortiz Mystery
  

  SHE WAS A PATRON OF THE ARTS -- UNTIL SOMEONE SHOT HER WITH A .357 MAGNUM Start with the dead body of New Mexico's venerable Miss Lucy Carruthers. Go to the gun that killed her, belonging to a handsome young artist with an alibi steeped in kinky s...

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  Flood
  

  • Jan-1981
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  Big Bridge
  

  • Sep-1982
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  Wildfire
  

  • Jan-1986
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  Limns a portrait of catastrophic forest fire in New Mexico's Samrio National Forest, where a prolonged drought, the homes that fringe the forest, campers, and two escaped convicts are the ingredients for disaster...

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  Tsunami
  

  • Aug-1988
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  The Californian community of Encino is physically and psychologically threatened by an impending tsunami--a tidal wave of such power and proportion that everyone and everything in its path will be destroyed...

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  Tangled Murders
  

  • Jan-1989
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  A Johnny Ortiz Mystery
  

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  Murder in the Walls
  

  • Mar-1989
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  A Johnny Ortiz Mystery
  

  Murder in the Walls is the story of a murdered prostitute and a cop determined to find the killer. Flora Hobbs owned one of New Mexico's oldest Spanish-style houses, and shared it with a bevy of beautiful working girls. When one of them turned up dea...

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  Death in the Snow
  

  • Oct-1989
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  A Johnny Ortiz Mystery
  

  MONEY. IT'S HOTTER THAN SEX, COLDER THAN A CORPSE... In a small town like Santo Cristo there are no coincidences. So when a collector for an East Coast syndicate gets ice-picked in a porn house, Detective Johnny Ortiz takes a look around. What he...

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  Missing Man
  

  • Jan-1990
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  A Johnny Ortiz Mystery
  

  Kinky photographs found in a dead man's suitcase are the only clues half-Apache detective Johnny Ortiz has as he sets out to track down the erotic star of the glossies, and the killer, in the New Mexico mountains, IN THE MOUNTAIN TOWN OF SANTO CRI...

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  Interloper
  

  • Aug-1990
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  The Tower
  

  • Jul-2012
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  This is the incredible suspense novel that inspired the famous movie The Towering Inferno staring Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway and William Holden. The World Communications Center is a glittering skyscraper that is fatally flawed in its de...

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  Brood of Eagles
  

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  Snowbound Six
  

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Award-Winning Books by Richard Martin Stern

The Bright Road to Fear
1959 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- First Novel