Davis Dresser

Davis Dresser was an American author of fiction. He was born in 1904 and died in 1977. He has used many pen names in his time and wrote using the pseudonyms of Don Davis, Matthew Blood, Asa Baker, Anthony Scott, Kathryn Culver, Peter Field, Anderson Wayne, and Brett Halliday, as well as Hal Debrett.

The best place to start is the Powder Valley series, the earliest of Davis Dresser's multi-book series: it opens with Outlaws Three (1933) and runs to 66 books across 1933–1965, ending with Feud at Silvermine (1965). Davis Dresser's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Davis Dresser has 87 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1933 and 2020. 73 of them belong to 4 named series — the largest being the Powder Valley series with 66 books — and 14 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Davis Dresser's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Powder Valley (1933–1965, 66 books), Jerry Burke (1938–2020, 2 books) and Rio Kid Adventure (1940–2010, 3 books), plus 1 more.

This guide splits Davis Dresser's 87 books into 4 named series and 14 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Powder Valley (66 books, 1933–1965); Rio Kid Adventure (3 books, 1940–2010); Jerry Burke (2 books, 1938–2020); Morgan Wayne (2 books, 2020).