tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post6072398942874585703..comments2024-03-28T18:21:09.285-05:00Comments on Rough Edges: Forgotten Books: Wagons to California - Tom CurryJames Reasonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-28055049430498760312021-04-24T09:18:45.489-05:002021-04-24T09:18:45.489-05:00Thanks for the info, as always. Thanks for the info, as always. Spikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-25633981116650677802021-04-23T16:27:01.990-05:002021-04-23T16:27:01.990-05:00If I recall correctly, Tom Curry and Leslie Scott ...If I recall correctly, Tom Curry and Leslie Scott each wrote 55 Jim Hatfield novels, meaning that between them they accounted for just over half the series, which totaled 208 novels. Walker A. Tompkins was next, followed by Peter Germano and Roe Richmond, plus quite a few other authors who wrote 1-3 novels apiece. Curry and Scott dominated the Thirties and Forties, Tompkins' novels began to appear in the second half of the Forties, and then he and Germano dominated the rest of the run through the Fifties. It's a great series, consistently well written with only a few clunkers that I've run across.<br /><br />I read the first Spectros book many years ago and liked it, don't know why I never continued with it. The real author was Paul Lederer, who wrote a lot of house-name books (he did all but the last few Shelter books as Paul Ledd and all the Ruff Justice series as Warren T. Longtree, plus assorted Lone Stars), and wrote mostly under his own name and the pseudonym Owen G. Irons. Good solid writer.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-68988909931229158142021-04-23T14:23:40.554-05:002021-04-23T14:23:40.554-05:00I have really enjoyed the dozen or so Rio Kids I h...I have really enjoyed the dozen or so Rio Kids I have read. Did not realize (or, at my age, forgot that I knew) that Curry wrote some of Jim Hatfields, another series I like and have read quite a few more. <br /><br />By the way and off topic, stumbled on a Twitter account “pulp librarian”. Not much pulp but some interesting stuff. A series of Wil Halsey Mans Life covers are a blast. Also introduced me to the Spectros western series, I got one of the ebooks, a magician and a gunslinger teaming up in the old west for some occult adventures. Haven’t read it yet but seems weird for Piccadilly Press. Spikenoreply@blogger.com