There are American writers who've done wonderful noirish work
in rura
settings. James Crumley comes immediately to mind, and Donald
Hamilton
often had Matt Helm out in the woods or mountains where he
could make
good use of his woodsman and long-range sniping skills. More
recently
Daniel Woodrell has been doing what he calls "country noir"
in his
novels GIVE US A KISS and TOMATO RED. His St. Bruno novels
have a kind
of rurality to them, too. And leave us not forget one of
Dashiell
Hammett's best Continental Op stories, "Corkscrew," which
takes place in
an old west milieu.
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