Mystery and Crime Ballard, Willis Todhunter: W. T. Ballard Sampler. V1. 19 May 2012

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Willis Todhunter Ballard was born in Cleveland in 1903. His career as a professional writer began in 1927 and since then he has produced 95 novels, about fifty movie and TV scripts and more than one thousand short stories and novelettes which have appeared in the pulps as well as such "slicks" as The Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, This Week and McCall's. His most recent work has been primarily in the western field. He is past vice-president of the Western Writers of America and his novel, Gold in California, won that organization's award as Best Historical Novel for 1965.
The Armchair Detective, Winter 1979

THERE'S THAT CORPSE AGAIN

Happy Valley, with its winter sports, became a suicide playground for Jimmy Doane. For he was haunted by a corpse on skis that was determined to dog Jimmy’s snow trail until he reached the brink of hell’s jump-off.

MODELS FOR MURDER

What grim motive was behind the terroristic frightening of those beautiful New York models, and behind the murder that accompanied it? I, Austin Gardner, had two dangerous reasons for wanting to find out . . . .

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