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Richard Hoyt
Richard Duane Hoyt (born January 28, 1941) is an American author of mystery, suspense, crime, historical fiction, and non-fiction titles. Hoyt has published 28 novels, including two under the pen name Nicholas van Pelt and one co-authored with Neil Abercrombie former Governor of Hawaii and former U.S. House Representative. Many of his titles have been translated to other languages including French, Dutch and Japanese and twelve into German.

Hoyt authored ten mysteries set in the Pacific Northwest featuring the Bohemian private-eye, John Denson with Willie Prettybird, a Native American trickster and shape-changer as a partner. He is also known for ten off-beat international thrillers featuring a soft-boiled, wok-carrying eccentric private eye James Burlane.

Other novels include, Darwin’s Secret, a utopian novel of magical realism set on the Amazon River, The Manna Enzyme, a novel in which Fidel Castro travels incognito in the United States and dances in a disco in Portland, Oregon,, and Sonja’s Run, a romantic adventure set in Russia and the Urals in 1856. In one of Burlane’s adventures (Marimba 1992), a Miami family murders coke dealers and feeds their bodies to their Doberman who becomes addicted to human flesh. In Trotsky’s Run, the American president has psychotic episodes in which he thinks he is Leon Trotsky.

Biography:

Hoyt was born in Hermiston, Oregon, and grew up on a farm near Umatilla, Oregon. As a young man, he drove truck in pea and wheat harvest and worked as a construction laborer. He earned a B.S. and M.S. in journalism from the University of Oregon and was a fellow of the Washington Journalism Center where he served as a Washington correspondent for the Oregonian and other Pacific Northwest newspapers. He later earned a PhD in American studies from the University of Hawaii. He graduated from the U.S. Army Intelligence School, Ft. Holabird, Maryland, and served as a counterintelligence agent. He was a reporter for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and the Honolulu Advertiser, Honolulu stringer for Newsweek, and taught journalism at the University of Maryland and Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon.  Personal Life:

Hoyt lives in Vancouver, Washington. His wife Tessie is originally from Cebu City, Philippines. They have a daughter, Teresa. He has a daughter, Laura, and a son, Paul, from two previous marriages.

Recognition:

The New York Times has included four of his books on its year’s end list of notable books. Mystery Scene Magazine gave Siege its American Mystery Award for best espionage novel of 1987. His novels have been published in UK, Dutch, German and Japanese editions. The French publisher Gallimard published Trotsky’s Run in its Serie Noir series.

Bibliography:

John Denson mysteries

Decoys (1980)

30 for a Harry (1981)

The Siskiyou Two-Step (1983)

Siskiyou (expanded paperback edition of The Siskiyou Two-Step (1984)

Fish Story (1985)

Whoo (1991)

Bigfoot (1993)

Snake Eyes (1995)

The Weatherman’s Daughters (2003)

Pony Girls (2004)

James Burlane Thrillers

Trotsky’s Run (1982)

Head of State (1985)

The Dragon Portfolio (1986)

Siege (1987)

Marimba (1992)

Tyger! Tyger! (1996)

Red Card (1994)

Japanese Game (1995)

Blood of Patriots (with Neil Abercrombie) (1996)

Other Novels

The Manna Enzyme (1982)

Cool Runnings (1984)

Darwin’s Secret (1988)

Vivienne (2000)

Old Soldiers Never Die (2002)

Sonja’s Run (2005)

Crow’s Mind (2013)

As Nicholas van Pelt

The Mongoose Man (1998)

Stomp! (1999)

Richard Hoyt Website