Ron Goulart
1933-
Pseudonyms: Ian R. Jamieson, Josephine Kains and Kenneth Robeson (house name)
 

Ronald Joseph Goulart was born in Berkeley, California. He is an author and cultural historian. He also wrote several novels featuring the famous movie star Groucho Marx as a private detective. He is the creator of:
1. 'Jack Conger', an operative of the Wild Talents Division of the U.S. Remedial Functions Agency.
2. 'John Easy', a private investigator in Southern California.
3. 'Star Hawks', agents working for Interplan Law Service.
4. 'Ben Jolson', a special agent of the Political Espionage Office of the planet Barnum.
5. 'Cleopatra Jones', a special agent of an unnamed secret agency (novelizations of movies).
6. 'Jack and Hildy Pace', private investigators who run Odd Jobs, Inc., one of the top private inquiry agencies in the galaxy.
7. 'Terry Spring', a reporter for a Boston television station (under the pseudonym ‘Josephine Kains’).
8. 'Jack Summer', a reporter for Muckrake magazine on the planet Barnum.
 

Titles and year of publication:  

 'Jack Conger' Novels
 1) A Talent for the Invisible  1973
 2) The Panchronicon Plot  1977
 3) Hello, Lemuria, Hello  1979
 'John Easy' Novels
 1) If Dying Was All  1971
 2) Too Sweet to Die  1972
 3) The Same Lie Twice  1973
 4) One Grave Too Many  1974
 'Star Hawks' Novels
 1) Empire 99  1980
 2) The Cyborg King  1981
 'Ben Jolson' Novels
 1) The Sword Swallower  1968
 2) Flux  1974
 3) Daredevils  1987
 4) Starpirate's Brain  1987
 5) Everybody Comes to Cosmo's  1988
 'Cleopatra Jones' Novels
 1) Cleopatra Jones  1973
 2) Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold  1975
 'Jack and Hildy Pace' Novels
 1) Odd Job No. 101, and Other Future Crimes and Intrigues (short stories)  1975
 2) Calling Dr. Patchwork  1978
 3) Hail Hibbler  1980
 4) Big Bang  1982
 5) Brainz, Inc.  1985
 'Terry Spring' Novels (as Josephine Kains)
 1) The Curse of the Golden Skull  1978
 2) The Devil Mask Mystery  1978
 3) The Green Lama Mystery  1979
 4) The Whispering Cat Mystery  1979
 5) The Witch's Tower Mystery  1979
 6) The Laughing Dragon Mystery  1980
 'Jack Summer' Novels
 1) Death Cell  1971
 2) Plunder  1972
 3) A Whiff of Madness  1976
 4) Galaxy Jane  1986
 'Groucho Marx' Novels
 1) Groucho Marx, Master Detective  1998
 2) Groucho Marx, Private Eye  1999
 3) Elementary, My Dear Groucho  1999
 4) Groucho Marx and the Broadway Murders  2001
 5) Groucho Marx, Secret Agent  2002
 6) Groucho Marx, King of the Jungle  2005
 Other Novels
 1) After Things Fell Apart  1970
 2) Ghost Breaker (short stories)  1971
 3) What's Become of Screwloose? and Other Inquiries (short stories)  1971
 4) The Chameleon Corps (short stories)  1972
 5) Hawkshaw  1972
 6) Shaggy Planet  1973
 7) Spacehawk, Inc.  1974
 8) The Enormous Hour Glass  1975
 9) Capricorn One (novelization of film)  1978
10) Ghosting  1980
11) Skyrocket Steele  1980
12) Upside Downside  1982
13) A Graveyard of My Own  1985
14) Suicide, Inc.  1985
15) The Curse of the Obelisk  1987
16) The Wisemann Originals  1989
17) Even the Butler Was Poor  1990
18) Skyrocket Steele Conquers the Universe and Other Media Tales (short stories)  1990
19) Tijuana Bible  1990
20) Now He Thinks He's Dead  1992
21) Adam and Eve on a Raft (short stories)  2001
 As 'Ian R. Jamieson'
 1) Triple "O" Seven  1990
 As 'Kenneth Robeson'
 1) The Man from Atlantis  1974
 2) Red Moon  1974
 3) The Purple Zombie  1974
 4) Dr. Time  1974
 5) The Nightwitch Devil  1974
 6) Black Chariots  1974
 7) The Cartoon Crimes  1974
 8) The Death Machine  1975
 9) The Blood Countess  1975
10) The Glass Man  1975
11) The Iron Skull  1975
12) Demon Island  1975

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