Slim Jim Bannerman
Created by Jay Flynn (1927 ­ 1986)

SLIM JIM BANNERMAN is a Denver based operative for the San Francisco based Gallows Detective Agency, supposedly founded by a former Pinkerton agent named Vernon Gallowes back in 1916. The two novels in this series are set during the waning years of the Wild West and do a pretty good job of avoiding Western clichés (although a few slip through). The tag line was the suitably ominous: "His real name is a secret revealed only to men he is about to kill."

Flynn also penned a 1959 novel about a likeable PI named Burl Stannard, and novelized television's Surfside 6 in the 60's.

NOVELS

• Bannerman (1976)
• Border Incident (1976)

Respectfully submitted by Dale Stoyer.