Willis Todhunter Ballard (1903-1980) was an American writer, and a cousin of Rex (Todhunter) Stout. He was born in Cleveland Ohio, graduated from Wilmington College in 1926, and married Phoebe Dwigging in 1936. He was a popular writer of Westerns as well as pulp detective fiction. His series detectives are William (Bill) Lennox, a movie troubleshooter and Lieutenant Max Hunter. He also wrote as Neil MacNeil, using the series characters Tony Costain and Bert McCall, as PD Ballard and as Nick Carter.
Many of Ballard's novels are set... in Las Vegas, and he always does a convincing job of portraying this fasinating, seldom utilized desert locale with its wide-open casinos, its moral ambiguity, and the uneasy alliance between gamblers and police. -- Stephen Mertz
Bibliography
Say Yes to Murder (1942) aka The Demise of a Louse by John Shepherd
Murder Can't Stop (1946)
Murder Picks the Jury (1947) as Harrison Hunt with Norbert Davis
Dealing Out Death (1948)
Walk in Fear (1952)
Chance Elson (1958)
Lights, Camera, Murder (1960) as John Shepherd
Pretty Miss Murder (1961)
The Seven Sisters (1962)
Three For the Money (1963)
Murder Las Vegas Style (1967)
As Neil MacNeil
Death Takes an Option (1958)
Third on a Seesaw (1959)
Two Guns For Hire (1959)
Hot Dam (1960)
The Death Ride (1960)
Mexican Slay Ride (1962)
The Spy Catchers (1966)
As PD Ballard
Brothers in Blood (1972)
Angel of Death (1973)
The Death Brokers (1973)
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