Download or read book The Best Western Stories of Bill Pronzini written by Bill Pronzini and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Swallow Press book. In this volume the reader can sample the author's sharp character portraits, the evocations of a vanished way of life, the crime and detective stories in Western settings, and comic or ironic vignettes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Best Western Stories of Bill Pronzini written by Bill Pronzini and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Best Western Stories of Lewis B Patten written by Lewis B. Patten and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Best Western Stories of Ryerson Johnson written by Ryerson Johnson and published by Thorndike Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All the Long Years written by Bill Pronzini and published by Amazon Encore. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than thirty years, Bill Pronzini has been writing Western stories and novels, creating some of the finest writing the West has seen. Now for the first time in paperback, fourteen of his greatest short stories are brought together in one volume. Spanning his entire career, these tales offer a rich variety of tone and setting and feature characters who run the gamut from lawmen and cowhands to saddle makers and traveling dentists. But whether the stories are mysteries or action-filled adventures, grim or farcical, you can be sure of one thing: they make the West come alive!
Download or read book The Best Western Stories of Lewis B Patten written by Lewis B. Patten and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First short story collection from the respected Western writer.
Download or read book The Best Western Stories of Wayne D Overholser written by Wayne D. Overholser and published by Swallow Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western stories. Ed. by Bill Pronzini and Martin H. Greenberg.
Download or read book The Best Western Stories of Steve Frazee written by Steve Frazee and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 11 stories collected here testify to the success of Steve Frazee, whose avowed aim, as stated in the biographical sketch on the jacket of his first major novel, Shining Mountains, was to "write honest Westerns." Honest presentation is only one characteristic of Frazee's well-crafted tales. He tells a convincing, satisfying, and unusual story even when employing stock Western situations. A major strength is his understanding of the nuances of character, of how people are motivated, of the good and bad within each person, and of the conflicts between man and his environment. Drawing upon his years in the mountains of Colorado, he can vividly and realistically depict a variety of Western settings and do so in such a way that the settings assume a character of their own. The eerie Big Ghost Basin of "The Fire Killer," the high mountain country of "My Brother Down There," and the vast northern plains of "Great Medicine" confront us through his descriptions.
Download or read book The Best Western Stories of Les Savage Jr written by Les Savage Jr. and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western. Collection of eight short stories, with locales varying from Texas and New Mexico to Montana and the Far North.
Download or read book Heading West written by Noel M. Loomis and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noel M. Loomis was a truly fine storyteller whose fiction, as Bill Pronzini observes, has "a lean, reportorial quality that provides intense realism without crossing the line into sensationalism". The nine stories collected here demonstrate his versatility, his broad range of interests, his emphasis on historical accuracy, and his objective realism, while differing widely in setting, period, character, and tone. Included are a Spur Award-winning story about an old Comanche warrior nearing his dying time, and a railroad-building tale set in Mexico featuring a John Henryesque character named Blue Buckley.
Download or read book The Best Western Stories of Loren D Estleman written by Loren D. Estleman and published by Swallow Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten stories written between 1977 and 1986 by an award winning young writer whose work exemplifies the best of his genre--and transcends it. Includes an introduction and a bibliography of Estleman's work. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Carpenter and Quincannon Professional Detective Services written by Bill Pronzini and published by Crippen & Landru Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are in 1890's San Francisco and faced with puzzles involving fraudulent rainmakers, nefarious spiritualists, coney games, a one-eyed lady gambler, a crook who vanishes from a train, and the stolen body of a Chinese Tong leader, you hire the firm of Carpenter and Quincannon. Sabina Carpenter has joined forces with John Quincannon -- in fact., Quincannon would like to join forces in other ways, but his partner continues to resist his lustful advances.
Download or read book The Snatch written by Bill Pronzini and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's second novel and the first in the Nameless Detective series.In his first chronicled adventure, the Nameless detective hires on to handle the ransom payoff in a kidnapping case. Financier Louis Martinetti doesn't trust the police to deal with the man who snatched his 9-year-old son from his military prep school, nor is it clear that he trusts the members of his own household. On the appointed evening, Nameless takes a briefcase that contains $300,000 in cash to a secluded location chosen by the kidnapper. Then all hell breaks loose.
Download or read book The Best Western Stories of Ed Gorman written by Edward Gorman and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a slightly retarded fifteen-year-old girl dies on a school trip, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and his friend psychologist Alex Delaware are stumped. There's no sign of a struggle and no evidence of sexual assault. Just an innocent young girl -- dead. Alex finds himself ensnared in one of the most menacing cases of his career.
Download or read book A Little Red Book of Murder Stories written by Bill Pronzini and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2021-04-04 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 12th offering in the Little Book series two is by Bill Pronzini. A full-time professional writer since 1969, Bill Pronzini has published more than 80 novels, including seven in collaboration with his wife, Marcia Muller, and 46 in his popular “Nameless Detective” series, the longest running PI series still being published. He is also the author of four nonfiction books, 20 collections of short stories, and scores of uncollected articles, essays, and book reviews; and he has edited or coedited numerous anthologies. His work has been translated into eighteen languages and published in nearly thirty countries. Stories included in this collection: Night Freight Flood Snap Wishful Thinking The Monster Skeleton Rattle Your Mouldy Leg Lines
Download or read book Starvation Camp eBook Biblioboard written by Bill Pronzini and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After months of a harsh Yukon winter, a man's hunger can drive him to desperation, delusion, even murder ... When Corporal Zachary McQuestion veered off his icy route in the Yukon, he was eagerly anticipating the warmth and comfort he'd always found at Molly Malone's. What he finds in her cabin, however, makes his blood boil: Intruders have murdered Molly for her meager provisions--little more than a few bags of flour. Now, the corporal vows to find Molly's murderers and bring them to justice--even if it means tracking them through a frozen wilderness and reliving his own tortured past ...
Download or read book Six Gun in Cheek written by Bill Pronzini and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilarious and informative study of "alternative Westerns" takes aim at sub-par cowboy fiction, surveying 20th-century pulp magazines and paperbacks to provide laughably awful dialogue, humorous plot summaries, anecdotes, and historical background.
