Re: RARA-AVIS: Dresser's westerns

From: James Reasoner ( james53@flash.net)
Date: 03 Oct 2000


----- Original Message ----- From: < Moorich2@aol.com> To: < rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 4:03 AM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Dresser's westerns

> 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.

Richard is right. I checked 20th Century Western Writers and found that Dresser published five Westerns under his own name, four of them featuring a character named Twister Malone. Dresser also published two romances in 1937 under his own name.

Best, James

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