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WAYNE D. DUNDEE

Wayne (Dean) Dundee is an American author of popular genre fiction. His writing has primarily been detective mysteries (the Joe Hannibal PI series) and Western adventures (most significantly the Lone McGantry series). To date, he has written over sixty novels and forty-plus short stories, also ranging into horror, fantasy, erotica, and several “house name” books under bylines other than his own.

Dundee was born March 24, 1948, in Freeport, Illinois. He graduated from high school in Clinton, Wisconsin, 1966. Later that same year he married Pamela Daum and they had one daughter, Michelle. For the first fifty years of his life, Dundee lived and worked in the state line area of northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. During most of that time he was employed by Arnold Engineering/Group Arnold out of Marengo, Illinois, where he worked his way up from factory laborer through several managerial positions. He was always a voracious reader. As far back as grade school, he began writing his own stories. He sold his first short story in 1982.

In 1998, Dundee relocated to Ogallala, Nebraska, where he assumed the general manager position for a small Arnold facility there. The setting and rich history of the area inspired him to turn his writing efforts more toward the Western genre. In 2009, following the passing of his wife a year earlier, Dundee retired from Arnold and began to concentrate full time on his writing.

Following is a partial bibliography of his novel-length work:

• the Joe Hannibal PI series
  • The Burning Season
  • The Skintight Shroud
  • The Brutal Ballet
  • And Flesh And Blood So Cheap
  • The Fight In The Dog
  • The Day After Yesterday
  • Goshen Hole
  • Blade of the Tiger

• the Bodie Kendrick – Bounty Hunter series
  • Hard Trail to Socorro
  • Rio Matanza
  • Diamond In The Rough
  • Gunfire Ridge
  • Wanted: Dead
  • the Lone McGantry series
  • Dismal River
  • Reckoning At Rainrock
  • The Forever Mountain
  • The Coldest Trail
  • The Gun Wolves
  • Massacre Canyon
  • Wildcat Hills
  • Devil's Tower
  • Rio Fuego
  • Ride to the Bullet
  • Ruthless Valley
  • Manhunter's Moon

• Other Work
  • West of Whitechapel
  • Manhunter’s Mountain
  • The Guns of Vedauwoo
  • The Empty Badge
  • Stay of Execution
  • The Retributioners
  • Trail Justice
  • Trail Revenge
  • Fugitive Trail
  • By Blood Bound
  • Counterpunch
  • Bitter Valley
  • Ride Hard, Shoot Fast
  • The Naked And The Undead
  • Wide Spot In The Road

Dundee was the founder and original editor of Hardboiled Magazine.

His work in the mystery field has been nominated for an Edgar, an Anthony, and six Shamus Awards from the Private Eye Writers of America.

His westerns have won three Peacemaker Awards from the Western Fictioneers organization, and have been nominated for five others.

He also served two years as vice president of Western Fictioneers.