Keith Robertson (1914-1991)

Popular and fairly prolific American author of children's books and murder mysteries. Born in Iowa in 1914. He served in the Navy during the second world war. Afterwards he began to write, with his first book being a horse story about the pony express, TickTock and Jim. He went on to write a number of children's novels, a handful being horse stories, but in the main adevntures/mysteries. His most well-known were the Henry Reed series about an enterprising young entrepreneur and solver of mysteries. Two books in the series won awards. The author also wrote adult murder mysteries under the name of Carlton Keith

Pony Books:

TICKTOCK AND JIM
aka TICKTOCK AND JIM: DEPUTY SHERRIFS
(WINSTON [USA] 1948)
ILLUSTRATED BY WESLEY DENNIS
Reprinted by Winston in 1949 with the expanded name of TICKTOCK AND JIM: DEPUTY SHERRIFS and illustrated by Everett Stahl
Reprinted in hardback by Grosset & Dunlap as part of their Famous Horse Stories series, with the original title and original illustrations by Wesley Dennis
SUMMARY: Historical pony story. Pony Express rider Jim and his horse Ticktock are drawn into a mystery...

LONESOME SORREL
(WINSTON [USA] 1952)
ILLUSTRATED BY TAYLOR OUGHTON
SUMMARY: Cliff and the horse Cinnamon form a surprising bond.

IF WISHES WERE HORSES
(HARPER [USA] 1958)
ILLUSTRATED BY PAUL KENNEDY
Reprinted in paperback by Harper Trophy

PHANTOM RIDER
(VIKING [USA] 1955)
ILLUSTRATED BY JACK WEAVER
Reprinted in hardback by original publishers
There was also a German edition
SUMMARY: Is the phantom rider who races at night the ghost of a girl from the American Revolution?

Collector's Info:
All fairly easy to find in the USA. No British editions and on the whole they are quite hard to find here, and indeed anywhere else other than America. There was however a German edition of Phantom Rider published.