Peter Rabe: * 24 mystery/detective/espionage novels with series characters Manny DeWitt, Damiel Port --mostly brutal, intense, vivid, and available only in paperback; 2 of his hardboiled novels are about the inner workings of the Mafia * 2 unrelated novels (including novelization of screenplay "Tobruk") * 2 nonfiction books (maternity, psychotherapy) In the Periodic Table of the Elements, "Rb" stands for Rubidium. In the Periodic Table of the Mystery Authors, "Rb" stands for Peter Rabe! Honorable Mentions: Return to Mystery/Detective Table of Contents Return to PERIODIC TABLE OF MYSTERY AUTHORS [Grateful acknowledgment to Professor Erich Friedman for his permission for me to use the table structure and color GIFs of the Periodic Table, above, whose Mystery Author roll-over status names and correlation of Element Abbreviations with Mystery Author names are not the fault of Professor Erich Friedman but purely the work of Professor Jonathan Vos Post] Peter Rabe