Reginald Alec Martin (11 January 1908 – 27 June 1971) was a British author of a children's series and other novels.
He wrote under a series of pseudonyms, including E. C. Eliott and Rex Dixon.
He began writing full-time after the war, publishing his first novel in 1949 under the name "Hank McCoy".
He went on to write more novels, all Westerns, over the next few years under the names "Scott Martin", "Tex Bancroft", "Brett Cameron", "Buck Savage" and "Burt Merrill", and also a science fiction novel The Wheel in the Sky, published in 1954, under the name "Rafe Barnard".
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