Todhunter Ballard (1903–1980)
Autore di A Dollar to Die For
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: W.T. Ballard, January 1936
Serie
Opere di Todhunter Ballard
The Death Brokers 2 copie
Ride the wind south 2 copie
The Man from Yuma 2 copie
Murder picks the jury, 1 copia
Mördaren ändrar rollistan 1 copia
Les cavaliers de la nuit 1 copia
Gopher gold 1 copia
End of a Millionaire 1 copia
Age of the Junkman 1 copia
Utan nåd 1 copia
Dødem på is 1 copia
Gunlock 1 copia
West of Justice 1 copia
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Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Ballard, Willis Todhunter
- Altri nomi
- Ballard, W. T.
Bowie, Sam
Slade, Jack
Hunt, Harrison (joint pseudonym with Norbert Davis)
D'Allard, Hunter
Turner, Clay (mostra tutto 20)
Carter, Nick
MacNeil, Neil (The Tony Costaine/Bert McCall Series)
Hunter, John
Parker, Bonner
Fox, Brian
Agar, Brian
Hunter, George
Ballard, P. D.
Reno, Clint
Shepherd, John
Bruce, Walt
Danford, Logan N.
Grange, John
Kilgore, Willard - Data di nascita
- 1903
- Data di morte
- 1980-12
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Azusa, USA
- Istruzione
- Wilmington College
- Agente
- August Lenninger
- Breve biografia
- W. T. Ballard started as a detective author. Much of his later works have been pseudonymous. Todhunter Ballard was used for his westerns.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 86
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 423
- Popolarità
- #57,688
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 11
- ISBN
- 161
- Lingue
- 2
- Preferito da
- 1
I've really enjoyed my deep dive into Ballard's work. Not content with generic, soundalike crimefighters, he created a number of distinct characters: Bill Lennox, the film studio fixer and unofficial detective, was the most overtly tongue-in-cheek; Mark Foran (the PI hero of Ballard's standalone masterwork Murder Las Vegas Style) was darker, but still capable of ruefully humorous self-deprecation. Max Hunter falls somewhere in between. As a cop he's stiffer than Lennox or Foran, which is a nice touch of realism on Ballard's part, but Hunter gets to sound off in a way that Ballard's other characters never did. At one point he expresses disgust for the Ohio town bigwigs "who think their shit doesn't stink"; it's a refreshingly direct sentiment, unusual for popular literature of the time (1961) and for Ballard's work in particular. To me this book has a noticeable John D. McDonald-esque flavor, more so than Ballard's other novels.
I always say this when reviewing a W.T. Ballard book, but the guy richly deserves to be back in print. He was a very good writer, and if you're new to his work, Pretty Miss Murder is an entertaining place to start.… (altro)