 Richard Martin Stern was born in Fresno, California. His novel The Tower in combination with the novel The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson was the basis for the movie The Towering Inferno. He is the creator of 'Johnny Ortiz', a half-Apache police lieutenant in New Mexico. |
Titles and year of publication:
| 'Johnny Ortiz' Novels | |
| 1) Murder in the Walls | 1971 |
| 2) You Don't Need an Enemy | 1972 |
| 3) Death in the Snow | 1973 |
| 4) Tsunami | 1988 |
| 5) Tangled Murders | 1989 |
| 6) Missing Man | 1990 |
| 7) Interloper | 1990 |
| Other Novels | |
| 1) The Bright Road to Fear (Edgar Award) | 1958 |
| 2) Suspense (novelets) | 1959 |
| 3) The Search for Tabitha Carr | 1960 |
| 4) These Unlucky Deeds (UK Title: Quidnuc County [1961]) | 1961 |
| 5) High Hazard | 1962 |
| 6) Cry Havoc | 1963 |
| 7) Right Hand Opposite | 1964 |
| 8) I Hide, We Seek | 1965 |
| 9) The Kessler Legacy | 1967 |
| 10) Merry Go Round | 1969 |
| 11) Manuscript for Murder | 1970 |
| 12) The Tower | 1973 |
| 13) Power | 1974 |
| 14) The Will | 1976 |
| 15) The Big Bridge | 1982 |
| 16) Wildfire | 1985 |