>Richard Moore wrote:
>I also enjoyed Neil McNeil's series but not
as
>much as his work under his own name W.T. Ballard.
Back then I wasn't aware
>of his Black Mask history but discovered him by
reading the paperbacks based
>in Vegas.
After WWII Ballard said that you couldn't give detective
stories away, so he turned to writing westerns as Todhunter
(the T. in W.T.) Ballard. The novel GOLD IN CALIFORNIA which
won a Spur award is quite good, but his others are pretty
padded and uninteresting. His western short stories however
are great. He particularly had a knack for romantic comedy.
Unfortunately, those stories are mostly buried in the pulps
-- he really deserves a short story collection.
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