Try Brand's The Night Flower. There's a reprint from the late '80s with an introduction by William F. Nolan. I think he even compares it to Hammett's The Glass Key.
-Gonzalo.
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> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: western vs noir, cowboy vs private eye
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> Date: Sunday, July 12, 2009, 11:09 PM
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> > Interesting topic as I'm working my way through Cowboy novels right now.
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> > I'd recommend "The Ox-Bow Incident" by Walter Van Tillburg Clark as a great Cowboy noir. Published in 1940 as an intentional deconstruction of the Western (as in Cowboy) novel.
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