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SUNDANCE by PETER McCURTINPeter McCurtin was a paperback writer. None of his books ever came out in a hardcover edition in the United States. He wrote fast-paced pulp fiction, Westerns, thrillers and crime novels from the late 1960s into the 1990s. Born in Ireland on October 15, 1929. He immigrated to the United States as a young man and found work as an editor and writer. His name is found as co-editor of NEW YORK REVIEW, as assistant editor of ALL-MAN, as editor of CAVALCADE. The first published book under his own name was a 1968 Midwood called ANYTHING GOES. McCurtin was soon working as an editor for Midwood publisher Harry Shorten. Shorten would lose Midwood, but he put McCurtin to work editing books for his other lines, Tower, Belmont (later Belmont Tower), and Leisure Book. And there, as an editor, McCurtin also wrote some of the books, both under his own name and house names. And he used his own name as a house name too, hiring other writers to create books under the byline "Peter McCurtin". Due to McCurtin's love of pseudonyms (and pseudonyms who wrote as other pseudonyms), and due to his use of ghost writers, we know it will probably never be complete. Piccadilly Publishing are only issuing the Sundance titles that they know to be 100% written by McCurtin. We hope you enjoy these as well as you do those written by John Benteen. You can find them here "Peter McCurtin brings real vitality to the action Western." - Ed Gorman, Spur Award-winning author. |