The last Days of Horse-Shy Halloran - Softcover

Pronzini, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345356896 ISBN 13: 9780345356895

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1988

Synopsis

The factors working against Horse-shy Halloran's plan to rob a Wells Fargo stagecoach are the arrival of detective Sam Quarternight, a second gang of robbers, and a series of mishaps that make Halloran an accidental hero

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About the Author

Bill Pronzini is simply one of the masters. He seems to have taken a crack at just about every genre: mysteries, noirish thrillers, historicals, locked-room mysteries, adventure novels, spy capers, men's action, westerns, and, of course, his masterful, long-running Nameless private detective series, now entering its fourth decade, with no signs of creative flagging. He's also ghosted several Brett Halliday short stories as Michael Shayne for Mike Shayne's Mystery Magazine, and has managed to collaborate with such fellow writers as John Lutz, Barry Wahlberg, Collin Wilcox and Marcia Muller. Still, if he never ventured into fiction writing, his non-fiction work, as both writer and editor, would still earn him a place in the P.I. genre's Hall of Fame. Besides his two tributes to some of the very worst in crime fiction (what he calls "alternative classics"), Gun in Cheek and Son of Gun in Cheek, and one on western fiction (entitled Six Gun in Cheek, naturally), he's the co-author (with Marcia Muller) of 1001 Midnights. The Mystery Writers of America have nominated him for Edgar Awards several times and his work has been translated into numerous languages and he's published in almost thirty countries. He was the very first president of the Private Eye Writers of America, and he's received three Shamus Awards from them, as well as its Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987.

From Library Journal

Things are heating up in Big Coulee. Unorthodox road agent Horse-shy Halloran, who got his name because horses always do him dirt, has been seen in town buying women's clothing. The gold miners' association is about to ship $70,000 of gold dust. The brutal and fearsome Burgoyne brothers are in the neighborhood. And Wells Fargo agent Samuel Quarternight has fallen in love with the banker's daughter, Faye. Halloran just wants to make off with the gold, but he gets far more deeply involved with this cast than he'd like and becomes an unwilling and thoroughly despised hero. An enjoyable tale from a mastersmall, inconsequential, and well worth it. Edwin B. Burgess, U.S. Army TRALINET Ctr., Fort Monroe, Va.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0345356896
• ISBN 13: 9780345356895
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 164