J. Allan Dunn

[1] At the request of Adventure editor Arthur Sullivant Hoffman, Dunn wrote Barehanded Castaways, a novel about people trapped on a desert island which was intended to avoid the usual cliches of such stories.

[2][3] Well over half of his output appeared in Street & Smith pulps, including People's, Complete Story Magazine, and Wild West Weekly.

A number of his novel-length stories were reprinted in hardbound, some under the pen name "Joseph Montague" for Street & Smith's Chelsea House imprint; many of his books were issued in the United Kingdom.

His stories were frequently syndicated in newspapers, both in America and around the world, making him, for a time, a very widely known author.

While living in San Francisco, he worked for the Southern Pacific Company, which published Sunset magazine.

Dunn died, according to friends, of complications from chronic malaria; he had contracted the disease in Honolulu.

Dunn's "The Greenstone Mask" was the cover story for the October 1914 issue of Adventure
Dunn's "The Gold Lust" was cover-featured on the November 1915 issue of Adventure
Dunn's "The Hidden Hand" was the lead short novel in the August 1934 issue of Black Book Detective
Dunn's "Blue Shroud" was the cover story for the June 1934 issue of All Detective