tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post7043352675633034441..comments2024-03-27T10:50:17.270-05:00Comments on Rough Edges: Forgotten Books: Lawless Guns - Dudley DeanJames Reasonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-69973725004645217072010-06-04T16:26:37.889-05:002010-06-04T16:26:37.889-05:00Yes, he wrote about three times as many Western no...Yes, he wrote about three times as many Western novels as Dean Owen than he did as Dudley Dean, his second most prolific pen name. The other pseudonyms were used on short-run series. Plus there were dozens of stories in the Western pulps by-lined Dean Owen.<br /><br />I agree with you about the Dudley Dean name.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-54767855089602546312010-06-04T16:06:54.881-05:002010-06-04T16:06:54.881-05:00I see a lot of Dean Owen stuff. Was that his busie...I see a lot of Dean Owen stuff. Was that his busiest Western pen name? As for "Dudley Dean", that seems the opposite of a hardboiled pseudonym.Evan Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07620731784654779358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-42449607506466117862010-06-04T15:40:43.552-05:002010-06-04T15:40:43.552-05:00Read one, George? Read 'em all! I wish I had m...Read one, George? Read 'em all! I wish I had more on my own shelves. Don't forget -- late in his career McGaughey ghosted most of the Lassiter books by Loren Zane Grey. There's a helpful checklist at<br />http://www.mysteryfile.com/DOwen/Bibliography.html <br />Thanks to James, Steve Lewis, Victor Berch and Bill Pronzini.Chap O'Keefehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04404176810063857291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-67084873838586794222010-06-04T08:01:11.172-05:002010-06-04T08:01:11.172-05:00I've had a fistful of Dudley Dean books on my ...I've had a fistful of Dudley Dean books on my shelves for years. Time to read one after your excellent review!Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-45447445743428121922010-06-04T07:56:07.515-05:002010-06-04T07:56:07.515-05:00Hamilton and McGaughey were indeed contemporaries,...Hamilton and McGaughey were indeed contemporaries, Ed. McGaughey started selling to the Western pulps in the mid-Thirties, which means he broke in about a decade before Hamilton, but he continued to write well up into the Seventies.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-12344980025486386182010-06-04T07:35:26.025-05:002010-06-04T07:35:26.025-05:00I'll add this one to my Westerns TBR list. Tha...I'll add this one to my Westerns TBR list. Thank you, James. I recently read a Donald Hamilton originally published by Gold Medal, I believe. Maybe they were contemporaries. <br /><br />Ed LynskeyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-77917081625825896902010-06-04T07:00:37.333-05:002010-06-04T07:00:37.333-05:00I can easily see this plot in crime fiction if you...I can easily see this plot in crime fiction if you take away the horses and throw in a city street.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.com