Eamon Gold
Created by Richard Helms

Now here's a real San Francisco treat.

EAMON GOLD is the real deal, a City-by-the-Bay ex-cop turned private dick with a taste for Glenlivet, Spenseresque wisecracks and tossing darts around his office. He has an office near Fisherman's Wharf (over a small art gallery owned by his sweetie, a statuesque hottie named Heidi) and an old Victorian place on Russian Hill. He also owns a small place near the beach, where he indulges in his hobby -- hand-crafting stringed instruments.

But don't let all the sawdust and the guitars and lutes fool you --Eamon's not some quirkier-than-thou shamus trying to cut himself apart from the herd by being different. If anything, his essential appeal rests in the fact that he's your basic meat-and-potatoes eye and that his creator, Richard Helms (no, not the C.I.A. guy!) is simply one helluva storyteller, a master chef who knows when to stir the pot and when to let the ingredients just speak for themselves.

Also the writer of the Pat Gallegher private eye series, Richard Helms has been an actor, a racing car driver, a college professor and a forensic psychologist. An expert on sex crimes, he's served as president of the North Carolina Association for Management and Treatment of Sex Offenders. He retired in 2002 to take a position with a small college near his home, where he works as a Student Counselor and teaches the occasional psychology course.

UNDER OATH

• "Both the initial entry and Cordite Wine (Sept. 2005) offer a return to classic "dick lit" (i.e., private eye fiction) in a classic location. 'We believe that there is a strong niche market out there for traditional, hard-hitting, knuckles-and-know-how private eye fiction,' executive editor C.E. Gaulden says, 'and Back Alley Books was originally founded to serve that niche market. Richard Helms's two consecutive Shamus Award nominations, in 2003 and 2004, testify to his understanding of and skill with this genre in his Pat Gallegher series, and we are very excited about the prospect for even more success with Grass Sandal.'
  (Publishers Weekly)

NOVELS

• Grass Sandal (2004)...Buy this book
• Cordite Wine (2005)...Buy this book

SHORT STORIES

• "The Gospel According to Gordon Black" (Fall 2007, Thrilling Detective Web Site)
  Winner, 2008, Derringer Award for Best Short Story

RELATED LINKS

• Murders in the Vieux-Carre
  The official website of Richard Helms and his Pat Gallegher mystery series.
  
  
• Richard Helms: My Journal
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Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.