THE OSHAWA PROJECT

(London: Barker, 1974; Ulverscroft Large Print 2007)

(and as)

THE ALGONQUIN PROJECT

(New York: Morrow, 1975)

 

Filmed as Brass Target by MGM (1978)

starring

Sophia Loren, John Cassavetes, Robert Vaughan, George Kennedy, Edward Herrman,

Bruce Davison and Patrick McGoohan and Max von Sydow.

 

***

 

 

NO PLACE TO BE A COP.

(London: Barker, 1974; Ulverscroft Large Print 2008)

              

            

***

 

THE RITTER DOUBLECROSS

(London: Barker, 1975; New York: Morrow, 1976; Ulverscroft Large Print 2008)

***

KILL PETROSINO!

(London: Barker, 1975; Ulverscroft Large Print 2008)

 

 

***

 

THE MITTENWALD SYNDICATE

(London: Cassell, 1976; New York: Morrow, 1977)

 

***

CARVER’S KINGDOM

(London: Macmillan, 1980; New York: Warner, 1980)

 

***

 

WHITE NIGHTS, RED DAWN

(New York: Macmillan, 1980; London: Hutchinson, 1981)

 

***

WOLF TRAP

(London: Piatkus, 1983; New York: St Martins Press, 1984)

 

***

 

 The "A Call to Arms" trilogy

A PROMISE OF GLORY

(London: Arrow, 1983; New York: Bantam, 1984)

          

(London: Arrow, 1983; New York: Bantam, 1985)

 

FIELD OF HONOUR

(London: Hamlyn, 1985)

 

***

RED CENTER

(London: Grafton, 1987; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.

 

 

 

 

***

 

The Garrett Dossier:

SWEET SISTER DEATH

(New York, Lynx, 1989; London: Century, 1989; Ulverscroft Large Print, 2007)

              

ALERT STATE BLACK

(New York: Lynx, 1989; London: Century, 1990; Ulverscroft Large Print, 2008)

 

DESIGNATED ASSASSIN

(London: Century, 1990; Ulverscroft Large Print, 2008)

 

RAT RUN

(London: Century, 1991; Ulverscroft Large Print, 2008)

 

***

as “Christine McGuire”

UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY

(New York: Pocket Books; London: Heinemann, 1993)

***

UNTIL JUSTICE IS DONE

(London: Heinemann, 1994; New York: Pocket Books, 1995)

***

UNTIL DEATH DO US PART

(New York: Pocket Books, 1997)

 

***

 

 

 

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JOHN HENRY TUNSTALL

(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1965; Santa Fe: Sunstone Press,2009)

 

***

 

JAY J. ARMES: DETECTIVE

(New York: Macmillan, 1976; London: Macdonald, 1977)

 

                                                                             ***                                                                              

 

RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN: THE SOUND OF THEIR MUSIC

(London: Dent, 1978; New York: Walker, 1978)

 

***

 

THE LINCOLN COUNTY WAR: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY

(Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992; Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2009)

 

***

LORENZ HART: A POET ON BROADWAY

(New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1994)

 

***

BAD BLOOD:

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE HORRELL BROTHERS.

(Stillwater, Okla.: Barbed Wire Press, 1995).

 

***

PORTRAITS OF THE OLD WEST

(London: Salamander Books, 1997; New York: Smithmark,1997.)

 

***

THE WEST OF BILLY THE KID.

(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998)

 

***

Pat F. Garrett’s

 ***

THE SOUND OF THEIR MUSIC: THE STORY OF RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN

A Revised, Updated and Expanded Edition.
(New York: Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, 2002)

***

THE WILD WEST: HISTORY, MYTH AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA

(London: Arcturus Publishing, Ltd. 2003; Edison, NJ: Chartwell Books, Inc. 2004.)

***

TASCOSA, ITS LIFE AND GAUDY TIMES

(Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007)

 ***

THE BILLY THE KID READER

(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007).

 

***

 

THE PREMATURE BURIAL

(London: Corgi Books, 1966)

“I’ll Kiss You Goodnight” (short story)

 

***

 

100 GREAT DETECTIVES or THE DETECTIVE DIRECTORY

Edited and Introduced by Maxim Jakubowski

(London:  Xanadu, 1991)

“Frederick Nolan on Spenser”

 

***

 

LITERARY NEW MEXICO: ESSAYS FROM BOOK TALK

Edited by Dwight and Carol Myers

(Santa Fe: New Mexico Book League and Ancient City Press, 1998)

“How an Englishman Became an Expert on the Lincoln County War”

 

***

 

OUTLAWS AND LAWMEN OF THE OLD WEST: THE BEST OF NOLA

Edited by Robert K. DeArment

(Cave Creek, Arizona: NOLA, 2002)

“The Short Unhappy Life of William Seymour Douglass.”

 

***

“AMERICAN SONG LYRICISTS 1920-2000”

THE DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN LITERARY BIOGRAPHY

(Detroit: Gale Research. 2002).

Biographical Profiles:

“Johnny Burke 1908-1964.”

“Sammy Cahn (Samuel Cohen) 1913-1993.”

“Lorenz Milton Hart 1895-1943.”*

“Cole Porter 1893-1964.”

 *  Selected by the editors as “the outstanding Dictionary of Literary Biography entry of 2002.”

 

***

FANTASY ADVENTURES 10

edited by Philip Harbottle

(Holicong, PA: Cosmos Books/Wildside Press 2004)

“I’ll Kiss You Goodnight.” (short story)

 

***

 

REVENGE—AND OTHER TRUE TALES OF THE WEST

(Lafayette,IN: Scarlet Mask Books 2004).

“Foreword.”

 

***

  

(as Frederick H. Christian)

SUDDEN STRIKES BACK

(London: Corgi, 1966)

Republished in hardcover by Robert Hale in 2005 as BEYOND THE BADLANDS

***

SUDDEN - TROUBLESHOOTER
(London: Corgi, 1967)

To be republished in hardcover by Robert Hale in 2009 as HELL IN THE MESQUITES

***

SUDDEN AT BAY

(London: Corgi, 1968)

Republished in hardcover by Robert Hale in 2005 as DRIFTER FROM TEXAS

***

SUDDEN - APACHE FIGHTER

 (London: Corgi, 1969)

Republished in hardcover by Robert Hale in 2005 as RETRIBUTION AT WILDERNESS

***

SUDDEN – DEAD OR ALIVE!

(London: Corgi, 1970).

Republished in hardcover by Robert Hale in 2005 as BORDER BRAVADOS

***

FIND ANGEL!  

(London: Sphere, 1973; New York: Pinnacle, 1974)

republished by Pinnacle in 1979 as RIDE OUT TO VENGEANCE

***

SEND ANGEL! 

(London: Sphere, 1973; New York: Pinnacle, 1974)

republished by Pinnacle in 1979 as RIDE CLEAR OF DARANGA

***

KILL ANGEL! 

(London: Sphere, 1973; New York: Pinnacle, 1974)

republished by Pinnacle in 1979 as BAD DAY AT AGUA CALIENTE

***

TRAP ANGEL!

(London: Sphere, 1973; New York: Pinnacle, 1974)

republished by Pinnacle in 1979 as AMBUSH IN PURGATORY

***

FRAME ANGEL! 

(New York: Pinnacle, 1974; London: Sphere, 1975)

republished by Pinnacle in 1979 as SHOWDOWN IN TRINIDAD

***

HANG ANGEL! 

(London: Sphere, 1976; New York: Pinnacle, 1975)

republished by Pinnacle in 1979 as SHOOTOUT AT SILVER KING

***

HUNT ANGEL! 

(London: Sphere, 1975; New York: Pinnacle, 1975)

republished by Pinnacle in 1979 as MASSACRE IN MADISON

***

WARN ANGEL!

(London: Sphere, 1975; New York: Pinnacle, 1975)

republished by Pinnacle in 1980 as DUEL AT CHEYENNE

***

STOP ANGEL!

(London: Sphere, 1976; New York: Pinnacle, 1976)

republished by Pinnacle in 1980 as MANHUNT AT QUEMADO

 

***

(as Daniel Rockfern)

 

STANDOFF AT LIBERTY

(London: Robert Hale, December, 2004)

 

RIDE OUT TO VENGEANCE

(FIND ANGEL)

(London: Robert Hale, 2005)

 

AMBUSH IN PURGATORY

(TRAP ANGEL)

(London: Robert Hale, 2005)

 

LONG RIDE INTO HELL

(London: Robert Hale, 2005)

 

RIDE CLEAR OF DARANGA

(SEND ANGEL)

(London: Robert Hale, 2006)

 

BAD DAY AT AGUA CALIENTE

(KILL ANGEL)

(London: Robert Hale, 2006)

 

MASSACRE IN MADISON

(HUNT ANGEL)

(London: Robert Hale, 2006)

 

SHOWDOWN AT TRINIDAD

(FRAME ANGEL)

(London: Robert Hale, 2007)

 

SHOOTOUT AT FISCHER’S CROSSING

(HANG ANGEL)

(London: Robert Hale, 2007)

 

MANHUNT IN QUEMADO

(STOP ANGEL)

London: Robert Hale, 2007)

 

***

 

 

LONE STAR WESTERN ANNUAL

(London:  Atlas Publishing, 1966)

 

***

JESSE JAMES THE OUTLAW

(London: Macdonald, 1974)

 

***

THE WAGON TRAIN

(London: Macdonald, 1974)

 

***

COWBOYS

(London: Macdonald, 1974)

 

***

LEWIS AND CLARK

(London: Macdonald, 1974)

 

***

GERONIMO

(London: Macdonald, 1975)

 

***

THE PILGRIM FATHERS

(London: Macdonald, 1975)

 

***

THE BATTLE OF THE ALAMO

(London: Macdonald, 1978)

 

***

 

 

LUCKY LUKE: JESSE JAMES

(Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1972)

 

LUCKY LUKE: THE STAGE COACH

(Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1972)

 

LUCKY LUKE: DALTON CITY

(Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1973)

 

LUCKY LUKE: THE TENDERFOOT

(Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1974)

 

LUCKY LUKE: APACHE CANYON

(Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1974)

 

LUCKY LUKE: WESTERN CIRCUS

(Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1974)

 

LUCKY LUKE: MA DALTON

(London: Hodder, 1980)

 

LUCKY LUKE: CURING THE DALTONS

(London: Hodder, 1982)

 

LUCKY LUKE: THE DASHING WHITE COWBOY

(London: Hodder, 1982)

 

***

Benjamin Rabier:

GIDEON

GIDEON AND HIS FRIENDS

GIDEON'S HOUSE

GIDEON ON THE RIVERBANK.

(London: Knight Books, Hodder, 1979)

 

***

 

 

 

HEMINGWAY'S "FIESTA"

[THE SUN ALSO RISES]

Script and presentation.

New Horizons, BBC-TV, 1970.

 

THE RICHARD RODGERS STORY

Interviews, research and scripts for a series of six one-hour programmes with music,

introduced by Jessie Matthews.

BBC Radio 2, weekly 25 October - 30 November, 1976.

 

WESTERNS

Script, research and personal appearance

with John Harvey and J. T. Edson

A Better Read, Tyne-Tees TV, 1980

 

SPIES AND SECRET AGENTS

Script, research and personal appearance

with Ted Allbeury and Brian Freemantle

A Better Read, Tyne-Tees TV, 1980

 

THRILLERS

Script, research and personal appearance

with Ken Follett and Sarah Harrison

A Better Read, Tyne-Tees TV, 1981

 

BESTSELLERS

Script, research and personal appearance

with Stephen Pile and Nigel Rees

A Better Read, Tyne-Tees TV, 1981.

 

THE LINCOLN COUNTY WAR

Consultant.

The Real West, A&E Channel, NBC-TV. 1995.

LORENZ HART: A POET ON BROADWAY

Research and two-hour broadcast with Sheridan Morley

BBC Radio 2, May 14, 1995.

 

QUIEN ES? BILLY THE KID.

Consultant and personal appearance

Colores  KABQ-TV Albuquerque NM. 1996.

 

BUFFALO BILL AR Y STRADE
Consultant and personal appearance

Teliesyn, Cardiff, Wales,  1998.

 

THE GUNFIGHTERS OF THE WEST:

“BILLY THE KID” ~  “WILD BILL HICKOK”  ~  “THE EARP BROTHERS”

Consultant and (3) personal appearances

DVTV for The Learning Channel, USA, 1998.

 

THE RODGERS AND HART STORY: THOU SWELL, THOU WITTY

Consultant and personal appearance

WNET-PBS, USA, January 6, 1999.

BBC2-TV, London, December 28, 1999.

BILLY THE KID UNMASKED

Consultant, photographs and personal appearance

Morningstar Entertainment

for the Discovery Channel: March 2, 2004.

 

 

“The Reason Why: Notes on the Lincoln County War”

English Westerners Brand Book 1 (7) (May 1955) 1-8

 

Victory or Death: The Battle of the Alamo”

English Westerners Brand Book 1(new series) (5-6) (Mar-April, 1956) 3-6.

 

“Wyatt Earp: The Great Controversy”

English Westerners Brand Book 2 (7) (May, 1956) 1-8

 

“Billy the Kid: The Real Story”

English Westerners Brand Book 2 (9) (July, 1956) 1-6

 

“The Legend of the Gunfighter”

English Westerners Brand Book 3 (2) (December, 1956) 3-9.

 

“A Sidelight on the Tunstall Murder"

New Mexico Historical Review, 31 (3) (July 1956) 206-222.

 

“John H. Tunstall, Merchant.

A Brief Outline of the Career of an Itinerant Englishman”

English Westerners Brand Book, 4 (5) (March, 1958) 1-10.

 

“Ernest Haycox, Writer.”

The Call, Number 25 (1,2) (Fall 1963/Spring 1964) 1.

University of Oregon, Portland.

 

"The Search for Alexander McSween"

New Mexico Historical Review, 62 (2) (July, 1987), 287-301.

 

"Dirty Dave Rudabaugh"

Visions of New Mexico, No 2, 1989, 46-55.

reprinted in

The Kid, (3) (December 1989) 7-13.

 

"Dick Brewer: The Unlikely Gunfighter"

National Outlaw & Lawman Association (NOLA)  Quarterly, 15 (3) (July-Sept., 1991), 19-27.

 

"A Note on Frank Baker"

Lincoln County Historical Society Newsletter,

June 1993, 7.

 

"A Note on William Harrison Johnson"

Lincoln County Historical Society Newsletter,

October, 1993, 3-4.

 

"Bob Olinger: A Genealogy With Gaps"

Billy The Kid Outlaw Gang (BTKOG)  The Outlaw Gazette 6 (1) (December, 1993), 5.

 

"Hugh Beckwith: An Update"

Lincoln County Historical Society Newsletter,

February, 1994 [dated 1993] 5-6.

 

“The Horse Thief War"

Old West, 30 (4) (Summer, 1994) 16-23.

 

"The Men at Fort Stanton, Part One,"

NOLA Quarterly, 18 (3) (July-Sept., 1994) 5-12.

 

"A Note on Jose Chavez y Chavez"

Lincoln County Historical Society Newsletter,

August, 1994, 6-8.

and reprinted in

Los Amigos, LCHT Newsletter. (January, 1995)

 

"New Year, Lincoln County Style,"

Lincoln County Historical Society Newsletter,

October, 1994, 3-4.

 

"The Men at Fort Stanton, Part Two,"

NOLA Quarterly, 18 (4) (October-December, 1994) 29-41.

 

"Bob Olinger: Blowhard or Badman?"

True West, 42 (2) (February, 1995) 14-21.

 

“A Tribute to Lorenz Hart”

Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 1995. 255-57

Gale Research: Detroit, 1996.

 

"Lesser Lights: Notes on some of  ‘The Boys’."

Serialized in Los Amigos, LCHT Newsletter.

(July, 1995 - July 1996)

 

"The Short, Unhappy Life of Seymour Douglass."

NOLA Quarterly, 20 (1) (January - March, 1996) 16-21.

and reprinted in

West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly X (3-4).

(October, 1996, 2-4 and January, 1997, 4-8)            

and also reprinted in

Outlaws and Lawmen of the Old West: The Best of NOLA

NOLA: Cave Creek, AZ, 2002.

 

"Boss Rustler: The Life and Crimes of John Kinney."

True West, 43 (9-10)

(September, 1996, 14-21 and October,1996, 12-19.)

 

“Perchance to Dream: What About The Kid’s Grave?”

Los Amigos, LCHT Newsletter

January, 1997. 3-4.

 

“How an Englishman Became an Expert on the Lincoln County War.”

Book Talk, New Mexico Book League. 26 (1) January, 1997. 1-3.

and reprinted in

Literary New Mexico: Essays from Book Talk

NMBL and Ancient City Press: Santa Fe, 1998.

 

“John Kinney: A Postscript”

True West 44 (2) February, 1997. 12-13.

 

“Van C. Smith: `A Very Companionable Gentleman.’”

New Mexico Historical Review, 72 (2) April, 1997. 153-170.

 

“Who Killed Morris Bernstein? Murder and Mystery at Blazer’s Mill.”

Lincoln County Historical Society Newsletter 21 (2) June, 1997. 4-6.

 

“The Saga of the Kid Butcher Knife.”

BTKOG The Outlaw Gazette 10 (1) (Oct. 1997)

 

Introduction to

Gunsmoke in Lincoln County by Philip J. Rasch

Stillwater, OK: NOLA, 1997. ix-xii

 

“Billy The Kid’s Schoolteacher: The Life of Mary Richards.”

BTKOG The Outlaw Gazette 11(1) (Oct 1998) 6-8.

 

“The Saga of the San Augustine Ranch.”

True West 46 (6) (June 1999) 43-52.

and excerpted in

Lincoln County Historical Society Newsletter (Spring, 2000).

 

“Blazer’s Mill: The Gunfight Revisited”

Old West 35 (1) (Fall, 1999) 10-15.

 

“The Private Life of Billy the Kid.”

True West 47 (7) (July 2000). 32-39.

 

“Gunfighter Mythology:

Billy the Kid:“Print The Legend.”

(contributor with Daniel Buck & Anne Meadows ‘Butch & Sundance’, Leon C. Metz ‘J. W. Hardin’,

Robert De Arment ‘Bat Masterson’ and Karen Holliday Tanner ‘Doc Holliday’)

True West 47 (8) (August 2000)

 

“First Blood: Another Look at the Killing of ‘Windy’ Cahill.”

BTKOG The Outlaw Gazette 13 (1), (Nov. 2000) 2-4.

 

“Billy Hits Tascosa: A Lost Chapter in a Short Life.”

and

“Train Showdown”

True West 49 (7) (October, 2002) 22-26, 68-71.

 

“Ill Met by Moonlight: The Great Tascosa Gunfight.”

NOLA Quarterly 26 (4) (Oct-Dec 2002) 15-28.

 

“Johnny Burke” 1908-1964

“Sammy Cahn” (Samuel Cohen) 1913-1993

“Lorenz Milton Hart” 1895-1943

“Cole Porter” 1893-1964

Biographical Profiles for

“American Song Lyricists 1920-2000”

The Dictionary of American Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale Research. 2002.

 

“Billy the Kid: The Last Sighting”

BTKOG The Outlaw Gazette, 15 (1) (Winter, 2002-2003) 6-7.

 

“Shootout at Blazer’s Mill”

(research and background material)

True West 50 (3) (April 2002) 48-51

 

“The Hunting of Billy the Kid”

Wild West Magazine16  (1) (June 2003) 38-44.

 

“Here He Lies.”

Western Outlaw & Lawman Association (WOLA) The Journal 12 (1). (Spring 2003) 35-50.

“Grave Matters: The Tunstall Family Reunion.”

(as “John Tunstall’s Marker Found”)

NOLA Newsletter 29 (2) February 15, 2004.

 

 

Foreword  to

Revenge—And Other True Tales of the West

Lafayette,IN: Scarlet Mask Books 2004.

 

“Maurice Garland Fulton (1877-1955): A Small Bouquet from a Big Admirer.”

NOLA Newsletter 30 (1) January 15, 2005.

Also in

BTKOG The Outlaw Gazette, 2004/2005

 

“Way Out East.”

Western Outlaw & Lawman Association (WOLA) The Journal 14 (3) (Fall, 2005). 20-24

 

“Wild West Conquers Europe”

True West 52 (10) Nov/Dec 2005. 35-39

 

“She Taught the Kid a Lesson”: The Life of Mary Richards

True West 53 (4) May, 2006  51-53.

 

“What the Brits are Doing for the West”

True West 54 (2) Jan/Feb 2007.62-84

 

“Billy the Kid Country”

Captions for two-page map (40-41)

and photographs for a feature on White Oaks, NM

Wild West Magazine 20 (2) February, 2007.

 

“Best Reads – and They Aren’t All Westerns.”

True West 54 (8) August, 2007. 35-37.

 

“The Escape of ‘The Kid!’”

Western Outlaw-Lawman History Association Journal, XVI (4) Winter, 2007.

 

“What History Has Taught Me”

True West 55 (4) April 2008. 120.

 

“How to Get Rich Buying Books.”

True West 55 (8) August, 2008.  29-33.

 

 

“The Full Monty:

Lincoln County Agitator with a Very Suspect Background”

Wild West History Association Journal 1(6) December, 2008. 3-12.

 

 

Introduction to

Fort Stanton: An Illustrated History by Lynda A. Sanchez

Ruidoso, NM: Write Designs LTD, 2009.

 

“When Billy met Curly”

Wild West History Association Journal 2(6) December, 2009. 30-32.

 

 

***

 

 

 

Editor and publisher

The English Westerners Brand Book and Tally Sheet

(monthly)

1954-1960

 

***

 

Co-publisher and editor

The Gee Report

(fortnightly)

March, 1971 - September, 1974.

 

***

 

Columnist:

(fortnightly)

"My Week, and Welcome To It."

The Bookseller,

November, 1988 - March, 1991.

 

 

***

 

 

Newspapers:

The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Times, Sunday Times Colour Supplement, The Times. London Evening Standard, Liverpool Echo & Daily Post, Buckinghamshire Advertiser.

Magazines:

The Author, The Bookseller, Book Talk, Buchmarkt (Germany), Gerrards Cross Magazine, Miracles, Paperback Buyer, Penthouse, Publishers Weekly (US), Publishing News, Punch, Reader’s Digest, Smiths Trade News ,The Spectator, True West, WWHA Journal, Wild West.