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Donald McGibeny

Known today mainly for the 1920 mystery novel 32 Caliber, this early pulp-era writer left behind a small body of fiction with a brisk, plot-driven style. His work mixes crime, suspense, and the energy of popular American storytelling from the early 20th century.

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32 Caliber

32 Caliber

by Donald McGibeny

About the author

Donald McGibeny is a little-documented author whose surviving public record is slim. LibriVox lists him as fl. 1920, indicating that he is known to have been active around that year rather than through confirmed birth and death dates.

The book most clearly associated with him is 32 Caliber, published in 1920 by Bobbs-Merrill and later preserved through projects such as Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, and LibriVox. The novel has endured as a public-domain mystery with a lawyer-amateur-detective narrator, helping McGibeny remain visible to modern readers of vintage crime and pulp fiction.

Another work linked to him is Slag: A Story of Steel and Stocks, published in 1922. Beyond those titles, reliable biographical details are scarce, so McGibeny is best understood through the novels themselves: fast-moving, period pieces that capture the flavor of popular fiction in the early 1920s.