Robert Tralins
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Robert Tralins 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?
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When Madam Sherry, an infamous Miami, Florida, madam, dictated Pleasure Was My Business, her tell-all memoirs, Tralins transcribed her dictations. The book was put on trial in rem and banned in the State of Florida
. 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.
Tralins has published 251 books under his own name and a dozen pseudonyms, including Sean O'Shea. 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.
Author
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/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?
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction is an American television anthology series created by Lynn Lehmann, presented by Dick Clark Productions, and produced and aired by the Fox network from 1997 to 2002. Each episode featured five stories, all of which appeared to defy logic, and some of which were...
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When Madam Sherry, an infamous Miami, Florida, madam, dictated Pleasure Was My Business, her tell-all memoirs, Tralins transcribed her dictations. The book was put on trial in rem and banned in the State of Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
. 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.
Tralins has published 251 books under his own name and a dozen pseudonyms, including Sean O'Shea. 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.
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 #1 (writing as Sean O'Shea)
- Strange Events Beyond Human Understanding (1966)
- Operation Boudoir (1967) Valentine Flynn #2 (writing as Sean O'Shea)
- Win with Sin (1967) Valentine Flynn #3 (writing as Sean O'Shea)
- The Nymph Island Affair (1967) Valentine Flynn #4 (writing as Sean O'Shea)
- Invasion of The Nymphomaniacs (1967) Valentine Flynn #5 (writing as Sean O'Shea)
- Clairvoyant Strangers (1968)
- The Topless Kitties (1968) Valentine Flynn #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)