Robert Tralins

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Sandor Robert Tralins (born April 28, 1926 in Baltimore , Maryland ; died May 20, 2010 in Clearwater , Florida ) was an American writer. He was very productive in various genres, both fiction and non-fiction. He was the author of around 250 books, which he published under numerous pseudonyms, and hundreds of magazine articles and articles. He wrote several science fiction novels, two sex pionage novel series ( Miss from SIS and Valentine Flynn ), numerous erotic novels as well as non-fiction books on marketing and above all on puzzles, inexplicable phenomena , parapsychology and the occult . His stories were the basis for several episodes of the television series X-Factor: The Unbelievable .

He also became known as the author of Pleasure Was My Business , the disclosure book of a Madam Sherry, owner of a brothel for high demands in Miami . The book was banned as obscene, but the ban was lifted by the US Supreme Court in 1964 . The Egyptian ex-King Faruq , who appears in the book as a customer of the brothel, had initiated civil proceedings against Tralins.

Life

Tralins was the son of shipbuilder Emanuel Tralins and Rose Tralins, nee Miller. He grew up in his native city of Baltimore and attended Easter College there . During the Second World War he served in the US Marines and then studied from 1946 to 1948 at Johns Hopkins University . In 1945 he married Sonya Lee Mandel and with her two sons (born in 1947 and 1951). Since 1947 he was a full-time writer.

Tralins was a keen sailor and owned a ship on which he lived with his family for a long time. When his wife developed leukemia , he settled in Clearwater in 1989. His wife died soon after. In 2010, Tralins died of prostate cancer at the age of 84 .

His science fiction novel The Cosmozoids (1966, as the invasion of the Kozmozoids ) has been translated into German .

bibliography

The series are arranged according to the year of publication of the first part.

Miss from SIS (series of novels)
  • The Miss from SIS (1966)
  • The Chic Chick Spy (1966)
  • The Ring-A-Ding UFOs (1967)
Valentine Flynn (series of novels, as Sean O'Shea)
  • 1 What a way to go! (1966)
  • 2 Operation Boudoir (1967)
  • 3 Win with Sin (1967)
  • 4 The Nymph Island Affair (1967)
  • 5 Invasion of The Nymphomaniacs (1967)
Black Brute (series of novels)
  • 1 Black Brute (1969)
  • 2 Runaway Slave (1969), also called Rampage
  • 3 Slaves Revenge (1969)
Signal (novel series)
  • Signal: Intruder (1991)
  • Signal: Blackbird (1992)
Novels
  • The Aenidians (1954)
  • Primitive Orgy (1961)
  • Five Wild Dames (1961)
  • Congo Lust (1961)
  • The Rapist (1962)
  • Hired Nymph (1962)
  • Four Nude Queens (1962)
  • The One and Only Jean (1962)
  • Naked Hills (1962)
  • Caesar's Bench (1962)
  • Law of Lust (1962)
  • Death Before Dishonor (1962)
  • Freak Lover (1962)
  • Torrid Island (1962)
  • Captain O'Six (1962)
  • They Make Her Beg (1963)
  • The Love Worshipers (1963)
  • Donna is Different (1963)
  • Artist Swinger (1963)
  • The Hillbilly (1963)
  • Devil's Hook (1963)
  • Smuggler's Mistress (1963)
  • Colossal Carnality (1964)
  • Jazzman in Nudetown (1964)
  • The Smugglers (1964)
  • The Pirates (1964)
  • Gunrunner (1964)
  • French Leave (1965, as Norman A. King)
  • Trick or Treat (1965, as Cynthia Sydney)
  • Slave King (1965)
  • Whisper (1965, as Sean O'Shea)
  • Squaresville Jag (1965)
  • Variations in Voyeurism (1965, as Sean O'Shea)
  • Variations in Exhibitionism (1965, as Sean O'Shea)
  • The Cosmozoids (1966)
    • English: Invasion of the Kozmozoiden. Moewig (Terra # 553), 1968.
  • The Nymphet Syndrome (1965, as Sean O'Shea)
  • So Cold, So Cruel (1966, as Norman A. King)
  • First Try (1966, as Dorothy Verdon)
  • Stay until Morning (1966, as Cynthia Sydney)
  • The Higher the Price (1966, as Cynthia Sydney)
  • The Love Business (1966, as Cynthia Sydney)
  • Soft Sell (1966, as Rex O'Toole)
  • Take Me Out in Trade (1966, as Cynthia Sydney)
  • Lost and Found (1966, as Cynthia Sydney)
  • Hide and Seek (1966, as Norman A. King)
  • Sin Point (1966, as Cynthia Sydney)
  • Ripe and Ready (1966, as Cynthia Sydney)
  • Office Swinger (1966, as Cynthia Sydney)
  • Sexual Fetish (1966)
  • Gomer Pyle USMC (1966)
  • Dragnet '67 (1966)
  • Psycho Kick (1966)
  • Remember to Die (1966)
  • Cairo Madam (1967)
  • Executive Wife (1967, as Cynthia Sydney)
  • The Flyers (1967, as Norman A. King)
  • Give and Take (1967, as Cynthia Sydney)
  • Soft Sell (1967, as Rex O'Toole)
  • The Ring-aDing UFOs (1967)
  • The Seduction Art (1967, as Ruy Traube)
  • Memoirs of a Beach Boy Lover (1967, as Ruy Traube)
  • Rites of Lust (1967, as Ray Z. Bixby)
  • Uninhibited (1968, as Ruy Traube)
  • Cheating and Infidelity (1968, as Rex O'Toole)
  • Yum-Yum Girl (1968, as Richard Trainor)
  • Confessions of an Exhibitionist (1968, as Rex O'Toole)
  • Song of Africa (1968, as Leland Tracy)
  • The Topless Kitties (1968, as Sean O'Shea)
  • Clairvoyant Strangers (1968)
  • Sex Cultists (1969, as Ruy Traube)
  • Gigolos (1969, as Rex O'Toole)
  • The Mind Code (1969)
  • The Hidden Specter (1970)
  • Panther John (1970)
  • Slave King (1970)
  • Supernatural Strangers (1970)
  • Black Pirate (1971)
  • Ghoul Lover (1971)
  • Homer Pickle the Greatest (1971, as Alfred D. Laurance)
  • Black Stud (1973)
  • Dragon's Teeth (1973, as Keith Miles)
  • Android Armageddon (1974)
  • Illegal Tender (1975, screenplay)
  • Black Roots (1977)
  • Buried Alive (1977).
  • Life After Death (1978)
  • Panther John (1980)
  • Chains (1981)
  • Flight Signals (1990)
  • Deadshot (1993)
Non-fiction
  • How to Be a Power Closer in Selling (1960)
  • Dynamic Selling (1961)
  • Billion Dollars at Your Fingertips (1963, ghostwriter for Frank Russell)
  • Pleasure Was My Business (1963)
  • Beyond Human Understanding, (1965)
  • Psychological Study of 21 Abnormal Sex Offenders (1965, with Michael Gilbert )
  • Supernatural Happenings (1965)
  • How to Cash in on Your Hidden Memory Power (1966, ghostwriter for William Hersey)
  • Strange Events Beyond Human Understanding (1966)
  • Clairvoyant Strangers (1968)
  • Children of the Supernatural (1969)
  • Clairvoyance in Women (1969)
  • ESP Forewarnings (1969)
  • Weird People of the Unknown (1969)
  • Supernatural Strangers (1972)
  • Clairvoyant Women (1972)
  • Supernatural Warnings (1973)
  • Buried Alive (1977)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. According to his obituary in the Tampa Bay Times , he was the author of 251 books. In the 1979 lexicon entry with Reginald, Tralins names 194 books and 1500 dependent publications.
  2. TRALINS v. GERSTEIN , 378 US 576 (1964).
  3. ↑ Merged with the University of Baltimore in the 1970s .
  4. According to Reginald 1979. Not proven.