Luke Allan

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  • Bibliography:
    41 Books
  • First Book:
    April 2008
  • Latest Book:
    January 2018
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Book List in Order: 41 titles

  • The Return of Blue Pete

    William Lacey Amy (1878-1962) who also wrote under the pseudonym Luke Allan, was the American author of: The Blue Wolf: A Tale of the Cypress Hills (1913), The Lone Trail (1921), The Return of Blue Pete (1922), The Westerner (1923), The Beast (1924),...

  • The Man on the Twenty-Fourth Floor

  • The Westerner

    Claude Maughan, an Englishman, finding his late uncle has been swindled in a Canadian land deal, sets out to punish the land agent, Daniel Corfield. As soon as he arrives at Medicine Hat, he gets involved in the intricacies of Canadian life, and his ...

  • The Case of the Open Drawer

    A Complicated Murder. Vance Horton was an unpleasant fellow, the kind whose name afflicts even hard-boiled men of the world with cold shudders of disgust. He had no friends, but, to counter-balance this, could count on a whole host of enemies. So muc...

  • The End of the Trail

    The story tells of a house party, which, by way of novelty, is held at a summer camping the Canadian wilds. The camp, though delightful in the summer, is a grim and desolate spot in the winter, as the party soon find out. An atmosphere of eerieness a...

  • The Traitor

    Rex Dalton is the son of a gangster. His father dies in front of him and Rex knows that it is murder and swears to catch the murderer. As he grows up, this heritage never leaves him, causing family problems. Will Rex ever free himself for the better?...

  • The Sire

    Rodney Carleton immigrates to the Canadian Rockies from England. First as a pioneer rancher then as a railway building contractor, his struggles with this new country draw a landscape and historical image of frontier life and legacy....

  • The Fourth Dagger

    Tiger Lillie, a newspaper reporter, is sent to get a story about counterfeiters, and meets Detective Gordon Muldrew. As the two are passing the Florence Hotel, a scream is heard therein. With the hotel manager, they rush to Room 322 and find there a ...

  • Murder at Midnight

    The wealthy, new bride of a playboy is murdered ruthlessly in her home. 'The Gang' is somehow involved and Detective Muldrew knows it; but there are so many suspects, and clues come and go. A great who-done-it in the Detective Muldrew series by 'Luke...



  • The Beast

    The Beast is a romantic Western story which vividly describes the Canadian Rockies before is was civilized by railways. It features two principle characters, a beast of a man and his abducted woman. The contrast in their struggles are contrasted agai...

  • The Ghost Murder

    In his new role of thriller-writer, Luke Allan threatens to eclipse the Luke Allan of 'Western' fame. Blue Pete: Half-Breed, The Blue Wolf and The Lone Trail are cow¬boy stories which remain evergreen in the public memory, but The Man on the Twe...

  • The Lone Trail

    The Lone Trail, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future gener...

  • Behind the Wire Fence

    Tom Bristow fears for his life after turning 'State's Evidence' against a criminal gang. Inspector Muldrew has reasons to believe that one source of his fears may come from a Canadian connection. He and Star reporter, Tiger Lillie, travel to Ontario ...

  • Blue Pete: Detective

    Blue Pete was not a rancher-with that Indian blood he had to have some excitement in his life. Inspector Barker makes Blue Pete and unofficial detective to do a task that the North-west Mounted Police cannot officially, lawfully, fulfill. This job ta...

  • Blue Pete to the Rescue

    Sergeant Mahon of the Mounted Police is missing; he had been sent to the foothills west of Edmonton where only Indians lived. Blue Pete is asked to search and rescue the Sergeant-if the Indians have done anything to the Mountie then they will all pay...

  • Murder at the Club

    Detective Gordon Muldrew is called to the prestigious Wanderers' Club in NYC because of a murder just inside the doors to the club. "The girl, they decided, was about twenty-four. She was beautiful, but with a beauty soiled and hardened by a make-up ...

  • Scotland Yard Takes a Holiday

    Strangway, from Scotland Yard, London, is forced to take leave as his superior suspects that a broken love affair is disturbing his work. The detective happens upon a mysterious beautiful stranger, and follows her only to find even more beautiful mys...

  • Blue Pete: Half Breed

    Blue Pete was a half-breed from Montana. He moved to the Cypress Hills, near Medicine Hat, Alberta when things got to hot for him in the States. He had been a cattle rustler but once in Alberta he was warned by a young Mountie that he would be quickl...

  • Blue Pete: Horse Thief

    Blue Pete, the half-breed that now lives near Medicine Hat with his new wife Mira, needs some police work to keep him busy-he cannot rest; it is not in his nature. Inspector Barker of the North-west Mounted Police finally assigns the 'detective' a ta...



  • Blue Pete Breaks the Rules

    A bitter enemy of Blue Pete, Bill Scarway, the murderous fast-shooting outlaw, escapes the Mounties to Medicine Hat-to ride, as Trigger Sallows, for the Diamond K outfit. Inspector Barker, determined to get the elusive Scarway, dead or alive, asks Bl...

  • Blue Pete Pays a Debt

    This exhilarating Western story describes how Blue Pete-"the most popular cowboy character in fiction"-bested Frenchy Thoreau, a cattle-thief and worse, with oddly chivalrous ideas but a killer as quick-witted as swift on the draw. On the prairies an...

  • Rebel

    WHAT THIS STORY IS ABOUT As much to serve his own ends as to help the authorities Blue Pete went to the aid of the Mounties in rounding up a mysterious cattle rustler who did not shrink even from murder. How, with his characteristic genius for findin...

  • Blue Pete and the Kid

    What this story is about The stranger in town would have been in a bad way had not Blue Pete intervened. Bruiser Salmon, who was dealing out the punishment, didn't take kindly to Pete's action but the 'forty-five' the half-breed nonchalantly fingered...

  • Blue Pete and the Pinto

    In this new Luke Allan story Blue Pete, that indomitable half-breed who works in his own fashion to uphold the law guarded by the red-coated Mounties, returns back over the Canadian border to the vast wilderness of canyon and gulch that is the Badlan...

  • Blue Pete Rides the Foothills

    Few men reckoned on staying up in the Cypress Hills unless they needed a hide-out real bad. So when Blue Pete heard one night a wolf's cry from the hills that no wolf had throated, he figured he'd go on up and see who was hollering and why. And that ...

  • Blue Pete's Dilemma

    Blue Pete, secretly chosen by the Mounted Police to capture an Indian murderer, in his characteristic way picks up the trail and follows it into the mountains. He becomes involved in a bank-robbery that earns him a new and implacable enemy who dogs h...

  • Blue Pete's Vendetta

    Blue Pete, in his role of undercover helper of the Rcmp, once more sets out to bring justice and retribution to a group of bank-robbers who had held up a bank in Red Deer. Ring-leader of the bandits is Flying Cloud, an Indian with a forked tongue, wh...

  • Outlaw

    Once again Blue Pete features in this high-speed Western. As usual, on the side of border justice, he is marked down by his enemies for vengeance; and Pete, taking the law into his own hands, is hunted by the Mounted Police. On the prairies and mount...

  • Blue Pete in the Badlands

    The half-breed Blue Pete and Rance Hewitt were old enemies and Rance was not the man to allow a debt of vengeance to go unpaid. Determined to get even with Pete, he laid a trap to take the half-breed across the border into Rance's own territory. The ...



  • Blue Pete Works Alone

    The Story: In this exhilarating, fast-moving yarn, Blue Pete, against the express wish of Inspector Barker of the Royal Mounted Police, sets out to avenge the brutal murder of a rancher and his wife. Once again, relying on his ready wit and the light...

  • The Many Coloured Thread

    This story opens in California from whence the scene is transferred to the picturesque Balearic Islands where the main drama takes place. It reveals the reactions of two young people-wage slaves-who are suddenly released from bondage by a substantial...

  • The Tenderfoot

    When he arrived at Medicine Hat, Somers Randison's initiation into cowboy ways was both disillusioning and violent, and in a very short time he had succeeded in arousing the enmity of Gringo, a cunning, sharp-shooting Mexican half-breed, who swore ve...

  • Beyond the Locked Door

    What this book is about: Luke Allan is a born story-teller, and in this novel he describes a locked room, of which the window considered as a means of escape offered little chance to a fugitive. Yet in this room murder was committed and in some manne...

  • Blue Pete

    Blue Pete, that most famous cowboy whose adventures have been recorded in a long line of thrilling novels, is here involved in a strange and dangerous mission on behalf of the Mounted Police. Alone he has to discover the secret of the insurrection wh...

  • Five for One

  • The Jungle Crime

    THE JUNGLE CRIME The Jungle Restaurant, catering with its realistic atmosphere and subdued lights for the sensation-loving city night-life, is the scene of a brutal murder. Detective Muldrew, whom readers of Murder at Midnight will remember, is put i...

  • Blue Pete at Bay

    The story: When two hard-case characters rode in from the Badlands, Blue Pete smelt trouble a mile off. Nor was his instinct at fault. Outbreaks of rustling quickly followed the arrival of these men and suspicion turned to certainty when they made fo...

  • The Vengeance of Blue Pete

    When Blue Pete intervened with the enraged ranchers to save Butch Dorman from the revenge he so richly deserved, Pete immediately became an object of suspicion himself. That suited Pete, because, although it meant hitting the lone trail in a hail of ...

  • Blue Pete, Unofficially

    Into Medicine Hat, just before the year's big beef roundup, drift four cow-punchers from across the Border. Everything about Slick Jordan, their leader, stamps him as a dude, except the way he whirls a rope and handles his steel-dust broncho. When Jo...



  • The Masked Stranger

    Guns Roar Bank robberies follow each other in a noisy procession, through Luke Allan's pages. The waste of bank-clerk life is tragic, but a mysterious masked stranger does his best to balance the ledger by killing off the bandits and returning their ...

  • The Pace

    This story forms the psychological study of a young man who is both spiritually and morally down and out. He is sick of modern frivolities and seeks refuge in the Canadian Rockies. Here he meets the girl of his heart, who infuses new hope and life in...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Luke Allan has published 41 books.

Luke Allan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Pace, was published in January 2018.

The first book by Luke Allan, The Return of Blue Pete, was published in April 2008.

No. Luke Allan does not write books in series.
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