William Ard
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William (Thomas) Ard was an American writer of detective novels and westerns. While he went by many names, he is essentially a man of two faces. Ard was the creator of hard-hitting detective Timothy Dane of New York and an even harder living and loving detective, Lou Largo, of Florida. Under the pseudonym of Jonas Ward, Ard gave birth to the friendly and deadly western drifter Tom Buchanan. When Ard died, so did Dane. Largo lived on in a couple more books written by a ghost writers, one of whom who went on to become very famous in his own right.
Books
Buchanan's Revenge
"They said in Texas that Tom Buchanan ate raw wildcat for breakfast and that he was slow to anger--like a rattler dozing in the desert sun. But now every saloon and dance hall had heard the news: Buchanan was cleaning his guns. The genial giant of a man had sworn to kill the outlaws who had shot his best friend in the back. Old timers shook their heads. it wasn't going to be a fair fight, they said. The Odds were only three to one."
Don't come crying to me
Composed, in part, of reproductions and translations of the work known variously as Instruction of Akhthoy, Enseignements d'Akhtoés, and The praise of learning, and sometimes attributed to Duauf. The most nearly complete version of the text, that of Papyrus Sallier II, in the British Museum, is compared with other known extant versions.