Dallas Duane
Created by James A. Lawson (pseud. of James P. Olsen; other pseuds. include Lawton Jameson)

"Hard and fast!"
-- the motto of Dallas Duane

Western pulp writer James P. Olsen, under the name James Lawson, also wrote several hardboiled detective yarns with a decidedly western touch for the spicy line about DALLAS DUANE, a two-fisted P.I. who worked the hardscrabble oil fields of Texas and the American South.

Duane did a little of everything, hiring himself out as a trouble shooter to the oil companies, working insurance claims and even going undercover, working his way, "in and out of trouble - both with the wildcatters and with wild women - knuckling a path through a series of bank robberies and payroll heists, murder and corrupt officials, andcrooked gambling and haunted graveyards."

There were five short stories featuring Duane in all, and they've all been conveniently rounded up by Black Dog Books.

SHORT STORIES

• "Hard Guy" (March 1937, Spicy Western Stories)
• "Hard and Blind" (April 1937, Spicy Western Stories)
• "I Can Be Hard" (June 1938, Spicy Western Stories)
• "Hard Guy to Frame" (June 1938, Spicy Adventure Stories)
• "The Dead Are Millionaires" (December 1945, Fighting Western)

COLLECTIONS

• Hard Guy (2003)...Buy this book

Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.