Dead Men Running (1969) is the final novel by Australian writer D'Arcy Niland.

[1] Set during the years 1910 to 1916, the novel follows the story of Starkey Moore, a loner living in the small outback town of Hope, who discovers a young man collapsed by the side of a road in a storm.

Moore nurses the young Joey back to health and proceeds to teach him a number of life lessons.

Ian Hicks, writing in The Canberra Times, was impressed with the book: "After my first reading of Dead Men Running, I had an overwhelming feeling of disappointment that there would be nothing more from the pen of D'Arcy Niland.

Make no mistake, it is a statement of fact, not of opinion nor of sympathy, to assert that this is a great novel.