The Fatal Frontier - Softcover

Gorman, Edward; Greenberg, Martin Harry

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ISBN 10: 0786005971 ISBN 13: 9780786005970

Publisher: Pinnacle Books, 1998

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Four stories detailing the wild and untamed western frontier include Elmore Leonard's tale of revenge in "The Boy Who Smiled," as well as other action-packed tales by John Jakes, Marcia Muller, Loren D. Estleman, Bill Crider, Bill Pronzini, and Brian Garfield. Reprint.

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About the Author:

Ed Gorman, winner of numerous awards, including the Shamus, the Spur, and the International Fiction Writer’s Award, is the author of many novels, including Cold Blue Midnight and the first two Sam McCain mysteries, The Day the Music Died and Wake Up Little Susie. He has also been nominated for the Edgar, the Anthony, the Golden Dagger, and the Bram Stoker Awards. He lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

From Publishers Weekly:

Readers might be surprised to see stories by Loren Estleman, Marcia Muller and Joe Gores set in the old West. They shouldn't be. Bill Pronzini's introduction notes that the heroic figures of crime fiction can be traced to rugged American frontiersmen, an idea put forward by Dashiell Hammett (also the premise of Robert B. Parker's doctoral dissertation). Gorman and Greenberg have collected western crime stories by some of the best contemporary mystery and crime writers. Elmore Leonard's "The Boy Who Smiled" tells a classic tale of long-delayed frontier revenge. Gores scores with "Gunman in Town," a story of a smitten young man framed for a rape that never happened. Far from his usual upscale Boston precincts, Jeremiah Healy stages a western showdown with a twist in "To Tally the Dead." Livia Washburn literally combines old westerns with 20th-century detective stories in "Hollywood Guns," which features Lucas Hallam, a part-time PI who also works as a movie stuntman. Getting his gun repaired for a William S. Hart epic, Hallam is led by his knowledge of western lore into a real shoot-out. John Jakes, Brian Garfield and Jon L. Breen are among the 23 excellent writers heading down these mean trails.
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