Robert Tralins

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Robert Tralins
Born28 April 1926 (1926-04-28)
Died20 May 2010 (2010-05-21) (aged 84)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationNovelist
Years active1960s - 2010

Robert Tralins (April 28, 1926 – May 20, 2010) was a prolific author/novelist whose career began in the 1960s and continued until his death. He is best known for his first-hand research and story collections featured on the television shows Miracles and Other Wonders and Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction.[1]

Biography

Tralins first became known when he wrote Pleasure Was My Business, the tell-all memoirs of Madam Sherry, an infamous, Miami, Florida, madam.[1] The book was put on trial in rem and banned in the State of Florida.[1] The ban was later reversed in a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. (See TRALINS v. GERSTEIN, 378 U.S. 576 (1964)). In an internationally publicized lawsuit filed by ex-King Farouk of Egypt claiming never to have been in Miami, Tralins produced documentary evidence that he had indeed been, and won a $750,000 libel lawsuit and judgment against him.[2]

Tralins has published 251 books under his own name and a dozen pseudonyms, including Sean O'Shea.[1] He is best known for his novels Squaresville Jag, The Cozmozoids, Android Armageddon, Black Pirate, Panther John, the Miss From S.I.S. series, the Valentine Flynn novels, a dozen mind, body, spirit books, and numerous historical novels. And for a series of papaerback novels in which a James Bond-like character, Jack Lund, defeats drug lords, terrorists, and evil-intentioned occult groups.[1]

Selected Published Works

  • How to Be a Power Closer in Selling (1960)
  • Dynamic Selling (1961)
  • Pleasure Was My Business (1963)
  • Squaresville Jag (1965)
  • The Chic Chick Spy (1966)
  • The Cosmozoids (1966)
  • What a Way to Go! (1966) Valentine Flynn No. 1 (writing as Sean O'Shea)
  • Strange Events Beyond Human Understanding (1966)
  • Operation Boudoir (1967) Valentine Flynn No. 2 (writing as Sean O'Shea)
  • Win with Sin (1967) Valentine Flynn No. 3 (writing as Sean O'Shea)
  • The Nymph Island Affair (1967) Valentine Flynn No. 4 (writing as Sean O'Shea)
  • Invasion of The Nymphomaniacs (1967) Valentine Flynn No. 5 (writing as Sean O'Shea)
  • Clairvoyant Strangers (1968)
  • The Topless Kitties (1968) Valentine Flynn No. 6 (writing as Sean O'Shea)
  • ESP forewarnings (1969)
  • Weird People of the Unknown (1969)
  • Black Brute (1969)
  • Runaway Slave (1969)
  • Children of the Supernatural (1969)
  • The Hidden Spectre (1970)
  • Slave King (1970)
  • Supernatural Strangers (1970)
  • Clairvoyance in Women (1970)
  • Black Pirate (1971)
  • Clairvoyant Women (1972)
  • Black Stud (1973)
  • Android Armageddon (1974)
  • Rampage (1974)
  • Slaves Revenge (1974)
  • Super-natural Warnings (1974)
  • Black Roots (1977)
  • Buried Alive (1977)
  • Life After Death (1977)
  • Panther John (1980)
  • Chains (1981)
  • Flight Signals (1990)
  • Signal: Intruder (1991)
  • Signal: Blackbird (1992)
  • Deadshot (1993)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Meacham, Andrew (May 25, 2010). "Robert Tralins wrote banned and bordello books, as well as stories that inspired 'Beyond Belief'". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  2. ^ "'Madam' says Farouk was prize patron". The Dispatch. UPI. June 23, 1962. Retrieved March 2, 2015.

External links and sources

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