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Hallam was the first appearance of Lucas Hallam, 1920's Hollywood stuntman/PI. This 10,000 word novelette appeared in the first Private Eye Writers of America anthology THE EYES HAVE IT in 1984 and hasn't been reprinted since. The day I came up with the idea of Lucas Hallam, I called my husband, James. I was so excited that I couldn't wait for him to come home from our bookstore. After I told him about my idea, he said, "It sounds like it would be a lot of fun to write, but you'll never sell it." Ha. I've been selling Hallam stories for almost 30 years, and while I haven't gotten rich off the ol' cowboy, James was right about one thing, I sure have had fun writing about him.

I wanted to put this story up for free on Amazon's Kindle, but that option isn't available. Trying to come up with a way around this, the only thing I can think of is to email the file to anyone interested. Just send an email requesting the story to washburn@flash.net and let me know if you want the Kindle version or Microsoft Word.