For the first book, I matched the story lines with the titles that Gordon listed, his data coming directly from the Street and Smith files located at Syracuse University. Huber’s Chelsea House: A Bibliography (June 2001), with the relevant data sent on to me by Don Davidson. For the titles of the stories in both books, I am indebted to Gordon W. I suspect, but do not know for sure, that the second Chelsea House collection is structured the same way. It’s what’s called a fix-up novel: a collection of stories combined into what is called a novel, but is, simply speaking, a collection of stories combined into a novel, some related to each other, others not. The stories in the first of the two Chelsea House books are not identified by name. I have the first and third of the three volumes below, but not the second. Even after the Wildside book was published, I continued to hunt around to find as much information as I could come up with. Which of course obliged me to not completely fake it. UPDATE I’ve just heard from Al Hubin, who says:īut the limited knowledge that I had certainly did not prevent me from being asked to provide the introduction to the recent Wildside collection of Clackworthy adventures - nor prevent me from accepting for that matter, either. A rather complete biography can be found at IMDB, and this led me to his most recent book, The Enemy Within, which was published by Tor/Forge in 2006.
There are some interviews with Noel Hynd which you can easily find online, but they all seem to taken place in the late 1990s. Doubleday 1987ĭoing some quick Googling, this list does not include, within the proper time frame of 2000 and before, The Prodigy(1997), which appears to be a supernatural horror story only. I’m in over my head, in other words.īut checking with Allen Hubin’s Crime Fiction IV, emphasis on the “fiction,” I was mildly surprised to discover that there is an entry there for Alan Hynd: If anything, true crime is a category about which I can safely say that I know less than nothing, if it could be possible, so anyone who knows more than I do, or have been able to uncover so far, please chuck a life preserver my way. How much truth can one rely on coming from these types of stories? Believe it or not two of the TDM episodes were found in Watts’ Secret Service file.Īlso do you have any idea on a method for contacting his son Noel Hynd?
While the major facts jibe with historical data the personal story regarding the two outlaws seems quite fanciful. Hynd authored a six part series in TDM in 1937 about Lustig and Watts. Am doing research on a distant relative named William Watts who worked as an engraver in the Count Lustig counterfeiting ring circa 1930-1935. Enjoy reading your blog, thanks! Have a question you can hopefully help with concerning Alan Hynd and the supposedly true stories he wrote for True Detective Mysteries etc.
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