Thanks for your reply. I wish these editions were more
specific as to what stories they are reprinting. L'Amour
mentions in the intro that they were revised. He also makes
an interesting remark regarding the difference between
western and crime stories: "The detective protagonist does
not usually come to fear the land as much as the characters
in a frontier story (...) In detective stories, the
characters come to fear the people they have to associate
with in the city."
I also have a copy of The Night Flower (not to be confused
with Brand's similarly titled novel "The Nightflower") but
haven't read it yet. The University of Nebraska published
another of Brand's mysteries a few years ago: Seven Faces.
You can read more about it here:
http://maxbrand-faust.com/faces.html
-GB. sweethomealameda.blogspot.com
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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "R. & J. Clinton"
<clinton65@...> wrote:
>
> I have it, the Severn UK HC, and while it's been too
long since
I've read it
> to speak of it with any type of knowledge or
familiarity, the fact
that I
> still have it leads me to believe it must have been
a worthy
enough of a
> read to keep.
>
> I also have THE NIGHT FLOWER by Max Brand (intro. by
William F.
Nolan),
> which is more pulpish in its hardboiled themes and
(or perhaps
because of
> that very reason) not as good as the L'Amour
collection (read
FLOWER a
> cpuple years ago, much more recently than the
other).
>
> Ron C.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "GB" <mnc_fb@...>
> To: <
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 7:54 AM
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: The Hills of Homicide
>
>
> > I just bought "The Hills of Homicide," a
collection of eight
crime
> > short stories by Western writer Louis L'Amour.
Has anyone here
heard
> > of the book or read it? The stories are billed
as "hard-boiled"
> > by L'Amour himself but I'm curious as to what
the members of
this list
> > think of them.
>
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