There were at least three westerns, possibly four, published
by Davis Dresser under his own name. My memory is that they
were originally published in hardcover (Morrow?) but had
paper reprints in the early 50s. It was a series that could
be read as mysteries in a western setting. I remember three
of them carried blurbs from E.S. Gardner and were pretty
good.
I had no idea the Shayne novels were ghosted as far back as
the late 50s. Dresser started a publishing imprint about that
time called Torquil that published both science fiction (Poul
Anderson, Edmond Hamilton, Eric Frank Russell) and mysteries.
I can't recall seeing any mysteries from Torquil beyond the
Brett Halliday Shayne novels but there probably were.
Richard Moore
Richard Moore
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