> 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? I knew L'Amour had written
numerous stories
> outside the genre that made him famous, but I wasn't
aware that these
> in particular had been anthologized. The Bantam
edition does not
> provide any information about the publication dates
but L'Amour says
> in the intro that he used to publish in the same
magazines that
> Hammett, Chandler and Woolrich did, so I assume he's
referring to
> Black Mask and similar titles. 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.
>
I've read just one L'Amour, a contemporary cold war thriller.
I finished it because I was being paid to adapt it to the
screen. he has by far one of the most unreadable prose styles
I have ever encountered in modern fiction. and he hits
whatever meager points he wants to make again and again as if
with a hammer
Louis L'Amour? Louis L'Haine
John Lau
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