Kevin Smith (kvnsmith@colba.net)
Wed, 21 Jul 1999 10:11:02 -0400
jane asked:
>Just a thought apropos of a throwaway line in my last
message about costume
>dramas,which started one of those 3am train of
thoughts, is there any truly
>hardboiled historical fiction, by which I mean
written contemporarily, about
>pre 20th century.
I'm sure a lot of others will jump in with suggestions, but
much of Elmore Leonad's early work, both novels and short
stories, set in the last century in the American West, is
about as hardboiled as they come. The recent collection of
short stories, THE TONTO WOMAN, and the novel, HOMBRE, are
both worth checking out.
In fact, I bet Elmore could rewrite one of his old "cowboy"
books as a modern crime thing with minimal effort. All that
really changed was the setting.
Kevin Burton Smith
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