E. C. Eliott; Rex Dixon; Robert Martin; Scott Martin; Hank McCoy; Burt Merrill; Brett Cameron; Buck Savage; Tex Bancroft; Rafe Bernard; Simon Latter; Nicholas Marrat; Frank Denver
Reginald Alec Martin (11 January 1908 – 27 June 1971) was a British author of a children's series and other novels. He wrote under a series of pseudonyms, including E. C. Eliott and Rex Dixon.[1]
Career
Martin was born in South London in 1908. He claimed to have started work at 13, and spent time in various countries, working as a cowboy, gold prospector, and wild-horse trader, among numerous other occupations. During the Second World War he lived in Nottingham, working for the Ambulance Service.
He began writing full-time after the war, publishing his first novel in 1949 under the name "Hank McCoy". He went on to write more novels, all Westerns, over the next few years under the names "Scott Martin", "Tex Bancroft", "Brett Cameron", "Buck Savage" and "Burt Merrill", and also a science fiction novel The Wheel in the Sky, published in 1954, under the name "Rafe Barnard". In 1953 he began writing novels for children, starting with the "Pocomoto" series of westerns as "Rex Dixon", then the "Kemlo" science fiction series as "E. C. Eliott", and the "Joey" and "Dance and Co." adventure series as "Robert Martin". He also wrote spin-off novels, short stories, non-fiction books, and ghost-wrote several novels published under the names of well-known sportsmen.
"Pocomoto and the Wild Horse" in Swift Annual No.6 (Hulton Press, 1959)
Pocomoto and the Golden Herd (Nelson, 1960)
Pocomoto and the Texas Ranger (Nelson, 1960)
Pocomoto and the Warrior Braves (Nelson, 1961)
"Just Lucky" in Swift Annual No.8 (Longacre Press, 1962)
Pocomoto and the Mexican Bandits (Nelson, 1963)
"The Mustang" in Swift Annual 1963 (Longacre Press, 1963)
The Pete stories
Pete of the Wild Grass Country (Nelson, 1954)
Pete and the Prairie People (Nelson, 1954)
also
A Book of Pirates (Nelson, 1962)
A Book of Highwaymen (Nelson, 1963)
"The Wild Ones" in Boys Choice (Golden Pleasure Books, 1965)
As "Robert Martin"
The Joey stories
Joey is a boy living in the Covent Garden area of London with his dad Smitty and his Aunt Clara. He is the leader of the Jasmine Street gang and has adventures solving various crimes.
