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Robert J. Randisiis the author of theMiles Jacoby,Nick Delvecchio, andJoe Keoughmystery series. He has been nominated four times for the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America. In 1993 he was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southwest Mystery/Suspense Convention. He is the editor of more than 25 print and audio anthologies, including theDeadly Allies, Lethal Ladies, For Crime Out LoudandFirst Casesseries. His most recent anthologies areThe Shamus Game(NAL, 2000) andMystery Street(NAL, 2001), both PWA anthologies.His most recent book,Blood on the Arch(St. Martin’s Press, 2000), a “Joe Keough” novel, will be published in paperback from Leisure Books this fall. The year 2001 will see the publication of the novelThe Masks of Auntie Laveau, co-authored with Christine Matthews, as well asDelvecchio’s Brooklyn, a collection of his “Nick Delvecchio” short stories. He is the Founder and Permanent Executive Director of the Private Eye Writers of America, the creator of the Shamus Award, the co-founder ofMystery Scene magazine and The American Crime Writer’s League, and the former mystery reviewer forThe Orlando Sentinel.