I think a mention of Donald Hamilton, who wrote the Matt Helm series (forget
those awful Dean Martin spoof spy vehicles - the books were quite hard boiled)
might be in order here. He started out writing westerns, his most famous being
'The Big Country' upon which the Gregory Peck movie was based and which
contained elements of the non-conformist, independent and quietly tough heroism
we more usually associate with the fictional private eye prototype.
Patrick
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From: sonny <sforstater@yahoo.com>
To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, 12 November, 2010 21:09:29
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: westerns
cool. thanks for the info and link to bill crider piece. i also thought of james
reasoner and joe lansdale since posting. btw, lansdale is on the mulholland
books site today talkin east texas noir.
--- On Fri, 11/12/10, cptpipes2000 <cptpipes@hotmail.com> wrote:
From: cptpipes2000 <cptpipes@hotmail.com>
Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: westerns
To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, November 12, 2010, 3:40 PM
Sonny asked:
> have westerns been talked about here much?
Thanks for the link to that article, Sonny. Interesting.
There is a lot of discussion of hardboiled westerns in the Rara Avis archives,
and I've read a number of great books from mining that source. The westerns of
Loren D. Estleman have particularly been favorites.
Another great source is this article by our own Bill Crider, which gave me a
whole new list of books to track down. Highly recommended.
http://www.januarymagazine.com/features/westernmyst.html
best,
Chris
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