Randall Parrish

Book Excerpt: ...yes," he confessed apologetically. Travers was on his feet now, gesticulating with his pipe." Damn I knew I'd seen your face somewhere. It was two years ago at Washita. Say, Dan, this is the right man for you; better than any fledgling West Pointer. Why, he is the same lad who brought in Dugan--you heard about that "The Major shook his head." No Oh, of course not. Nothing that goes on out here ever drifts east of the Missouri. Lord We might as well be serving in a foreign country. Well, listen: I was at Washita then, and had the story first-hand. Dugan was a Lieutenant in 'D' Troop, out with his first independent command scouting along the Canadian. He knew as much about Indians as a cow does of music. One morning the young idiot left camp with only one trooper along--Hamlin here--and he was a 'rookie, ' to follow up what looked like a fresh trail. Two hours later they rode slap into a war party, and the fracas was on. Dugan got a ball through the body at the first fire that par..

A story of Western mining camps and one-night stands.

Wolves of the Sea: Being a Tale of the Colonies From the Manuscript of One Geoffry Carlyle, Seaman, Narrating Certain Strange Adventures Which Befell Him Aboard the Pirate Craft "Namur" by Randall Parrish, first published in 1918. A pirate tale of the 17th century. The hero is the younger son of a house in Scotland. The heroine, Dorothy Fairfax of Virginia, the villain an English lord living as a pirate... There are decks slimy with the blood of cutlassed brutes, a lovely lady saved from a variety of horrors, and all the other appurtenances which will appeal to the large group of men and boys who like pirates. Randall Parrish (1858-1923) was an American author of dime novels, including Wolves of the Sea (Being a Tale of the Colonies from the Manuscript of One Geoffry Carlyle, Seaman, Narrating Certain Strange Adventures Which Befell Him Aboard the Pirate Craft "Namur").

This retold tale can be described as "An Erotic Western Thriller." It represents a new literary form, a hybrid book that is the posthumous collaboration between a popular western romanticist and a modern-day "book doctor." This is the story of Beth Norvell, a mysterious actress playing the Old West with an acting troupe. Stranded in a small Colorado mining town, she falls for an adventurous mining engineer posing as a stagehand ... while coming face-to-face with the husband who had abandoned her, now a gambler who owns a stake in the Gayety Opera House. Sparks (and bullets) fly as cowboys, cardsharps, miners, and a Mexican spitfire collide in this erotic tale. "Second in this innovative new series, it reteams Parrish and Osterman as they strive to outdo each other when it comes to telling a titillating yarn," says Byron Rupert McCafferty, Online Critics Corner.

- This classic novel is brought back to life with over 30 illustrations to captivate the reader. Dubbed "An Erotic Western Thriller," the posthumous collaboration between a popular western romanticist and a modern-day "book doctor" has produced a new kind of book hybrid. This retold adventure pits a spirited New York newspaperwoman against a shyster lawyer, dangerous cowboys, and Mexican banditos -- with an assist by a strike-it-rich miner, a town marshal, and a kidnapped millionaire. "A clever premise that promises to breathe new life into old tomes," notes Byron Rupert McCafferty, Online Critics Corner.