On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Mario Taboada wrote:
> David Bell:
> << Along the same lines, are there any authors
who
> write hard-boiled westerns?
>
> Several, off the top of my head. Max Brand,
Frank
> Gruber, Merle Constiner, Loren Estleman, and last,
one
> of the best: Bill Crider, our resident
Human
> Encyclopedia. Could Zane Grey be
considered
> hardboiled?
> The great Erle Stanley Gardner also wrote
westerns
> (stories; I don't know if there are
novels).
Couple pulp mystery writers that I've been reading wrote
westerns: Philip Ketchum, Steve Frazee, Joseph Chadwick, Tom
Roan, Paul Chadwick. Whether they are hardboiled, I don't
know, but there sure are many mystery elements in almost
every western story I've read. In Joseph Chadwick's "Cattle
Ranch" (name translated from Finnish translation!) Steve
Reese, some kind of cowboys' union's security man, tries to
find some cowboy who got killed during the cattle ride.
That's sure rather close to typical hardboiled mystery
novel!
Juri
jurnum@utu.fi who is finally getting his 600 Christmas
messages read...
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