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Peter Heck

{{Short description|American writer (born 1941)}}

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|birth_name=Peter Jewell Heck

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|birth_place=Chestertown, Maryland, U.S.

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|nationality=American

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Peter Jewell Heck (born September 4, 1941, in Chestertown, Maryland) is an American science fiction and mystery author. His books include the "Mark Twain Mysteries"—historical whodunits featuring the famous author as a detective—and four books in the "Phule's Company" series, in collaboration with Robert Asprin, best described as "F-Troop in space". He also wrote the 36th chapter of Atlanta Nights, a book meant to ruin PublishAmerica's reputation.

Heck has also been an editor at Ace Books (where he edited Lynn S. Hightower and Robert J. Sawyer, among others), and created the SF newsletter Xignals and its mystery equivalent Crime Times for the Waldenbooks chain. He is also a regular reviewer for Asimov's Science Fiction and Kirkus Reviews.

In 2007, Heck began working as a reporter at the Kent County News in Chestertown, Maryland, where he and his wife moved after a number of years in Brooklyn, NY. His work for the paper includes articles on local government and history, health, environment, and the arts; it has won several awards from the MDDC Press Association. He also plays guitar and banjo in a local band, Col. Leonard's Irregulars. In 2017, Heck and his wife became editors of The Chestertown Spy, an online newspaper.

Bibliography

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=Novels=

;The Mark Twain Mysteries

  1. {{cite book |title=Death on the Mississippi |location=New York |publisher=Berkley Prime Crime |date=1995 }}
  2. {{cite book |title=A Connecticut Yankee in criminal court |location=New York |publisher=Berkley Prime Crime |date=1996 }}
  3. {{cite book |title=The prince and the prosecutor |location=New York |publisher=Berkley Prime Crime |date=1997 }}
  4. {{cite book |title=The guilty abroad |publisher=Berkley Prime Crime |location=New York |date=1999 }}
  5. {{cite book |date=2000 |title=The mysterious strangler |url=https://archive.org/details/mysteriousstrang00heck |url-access=registration |publisher=Berkley Prime Crime |location=New York }}
  6. {{cite book |date=2001 |title=Tom's lawyer |url=https://archive.org/details/tomslawyermarktw00heck |url-access=registration |publisher=Berkley Prime Crime |location=New York }}

;Phule's Company with Robert Asprin

  1. {{cite book |date=1999 |title=A Phule and His Money |publisher=Ace Books |location=New York }}
  2. {{cite book |date=2001 |title=Phule Me Twice |publisher=Ace Books |location=New York }}
  3. {{cite book |date=2004 |title=No Phule Like an Old Phule |publisher=Ace Books |location=New York }}
  4. {{cite book |date=2006 |title=Phule's Errand |publisher=Ace Books |location=New York }}

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Category:1941 births

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Category:20th-century American novelists

Category:21st-century American novelists

Category:American male novelists

Category:American mystery writers

Category:American science fiction writers

Category:Asimov's Science Fiction people

Category:20th-century American male writers

Category:21st-century American male writers

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