James Moffat (27 January 1922 – 8 November 1993)[2][3] was a Canadian-born British writer who wrote at least 290 novels in several genres under at least 45 pseudonyms".
[2] Moffat produced many pot-boiler paperbacks novels for the United Kingdom publishing house New English Library during the 1970s.
Moffat's pen names included Richard Allen, Etienne Aubin (The Terror of the Seven Crypts) and Trudi Maxwell (Diary of A Female Wrestler).
In particular, Moffat wrote a series of popular and commercially successful books featuring what came to be known as his most famous protagonist, the skinhead antihero Joe Hawkins.
An interview titled The Return of Joe Hawkins with publisher George Marshall was in issue seven of Skinhead Times (1992).