Robert S. Levinson Books In Order

The Elvis and Marilyn Affair

When actress Stevie Marriner, reigning ‘sex star of the soaps,’ becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a once famous movie director from the Golden Age of Hollywood, she calls on her ex but still besotted husband for help. Neil Gulliver, a Los Angeles newspaper crime reporter, thinks he can prove Stevie innocent and expose the real killer by untangling the truth surrounding the rumor that Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe had a torrid love affair in the mid fifties and that someone has the love letters to prove it!

The John Lennon Affair

Imagine This Manhattan. December 8, 1980. 10:50 P.M. A crazed fan steps out of the shadows of the Dakota apartment building and shoots dead his idol, John Lennon. Young Niel Gulliver, an aggressive reporter, races to New York. He falls in with two of John Lennon’s dearest mates and begins relationships that will tie him to the secret world inside rock and roll for life. Imagine This Los Angeles. The present. When Neil Gulliver, now a newspaper columnist in L.A., and his ex wife, actress Stevie Marriner, agree to appear at the Imagine That! Music festival honoring John Lennon, they suddenly find themselves dodging one murder attempt after another. Why? And why are so many other people once associated with Lennon dying violent deaths?

Hot Paint

This non stop, pulse jangling thrill ride has more heart pounding twists and turns than an out of control roller coaster, as L.A. newspaper columnist Neil Gulliver and his ex wife, Stevie Marriner, chase after priceless art masterpieces stolen almost seventy years ago and believed lost forever. In fact, these treasures have never been lost, only hidden in the secret galleries and vaults of greedy art dealers and wealthy private collectors. They are an ugly breed prepared to pay any sum to acquire more great works by the masters. When power and wealth fail them, violence is readily available. The gift of a suite of Andy Warhol silkscreens plunges Neil and Stevie into this nasty, dangerous underworld. They escape more than one brush with death as they decipher the secret of each print and try to keep one step ahead of paid killers, among them Clegg, a terrifying, tormented man who has his private reasons for the murders he commits.

Ask a Dead Man

A 1 L.A. Times Bestselling Author

The cold blooded murder of KC McClory’s husband draws her into a plan for revenge by assassinating one of the world’s great leaders. The past quickly becomes the present, and takes KC from the strife torn back alleys of Falls Road in Northern Ireland to the posh streets of Pasadena, California, where KC grew up among the wealthy inhabitants and where vengeance will be carried out in the shadow of the annual Rose Bowl.

Orange County Noir

Orange County, California, brings to mind the endless summer of sand and surf, McMansion housing tracts, a conservative stronghold, and tony shopping centers. It’s a place where pilates clas*ses are run like boot camps, real estate values are discussed at your weekly colonic, and ice cream parlors on Main Street, USA, exist side by side with pho shops and taquerias. Orange County Noir pulls back the veil to reveal what lurks behind the curtain. Features brand new stories by: Susan Straight, Robert S. Levinson, Rob Roberge, Nathan Walpow, Barbara DeMarco Barrett, Dan Duling, Mary Castillo, Lawrence Maddox, Dick Lochte, Robert Ward, Gary Phillips, Gordon McAlpine, Martin J. Smith, and Patricia McFall. Editor Gary Phillips is the author of many novels and short stories. He lives in Southern California.