Clay Nash 17

Moss Dooley’s gang hit the stage just within the shadows of Hangman’s Spur. Men died, the coach crashed … and its cargo of fifty thousand dollars vanished. Only trouble was, no one knew just where it had gone!

The job of tracking it down – and trying to prove the innocence of the prime suspect – went to Clay Nash, Wells Fargo’s top troubleshooter. But every lead he followed ended up going nowhere.

The only fact that remained constant throughout the whole investigation was Hangman’s Spur, a towering mountain range with a bad reputation.

Clay decided the secret would be found somewhere up on those rocky slopes … but that was when the killing really began in earnest!

Keith Hetherington

aka Kirk Hamilton, Brett Waring and Hank J. Kirby

Australian writer Keith has worked as television scriptwriter on such Australian TV shows as Homicide, Matlock Police, Division 4, Solo One, The Box, The Spoiler and Chopper Squad.

“I always liked writing little vignettes, trying to describe the action sequences I saw in a film or the Saturday Afternoon Serial at local cinemas,” remembers Keith Hetherington, better known to Piccadilly Publishing readers as Hank J. Kirby, author of the Bronco Madigan series.

Keith went on to pen hundreds of westerns (the figure varies between 600 and 1000) under the names Kirk Hamilton (including the legendary Bannerman the Enforcer series) and Clay Nash as Brett Waring. Keith also worked as a journalist for the Queensland Health Education Council, writing weekly articles for newspapers on health subjects and radio plays dramatizing same.