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08 July 1922 – 1960

William (Thomas) Ard was an American writer of detective novels and westerns. While he went by many names, he is essentially a man of two faces. Ard was the creator of hard-hitting detective **Timothy Dane** of New York and an even harder living and loving detective, **Lou Largo**, of Florida. Under the pseudonym of Jonas Ward, Ard gave birth to the friendly and deadly western drifter **Tom Buchanan**. When Ard died, so did Dane. Largo lived on in a couple more books written by a ghost writers, one of whom who went on to become very famous in his own right.