Bordersnakes

Author : James Crumley
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101971529

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Bordersnakes by James Crumley Pdf

C.W. Sughrue has been gut-shot and left to die and is, for the first time in his life, actually scared—which makes him angry. Milo Milodragovitch has been robbed of his three-million dollar inheritance by a pipsqueak banker and a butch lady poet; he’s not scared at all, just pissed. In a spiffy suit and a red Cadillac, Milo trails his thieves to the Mexican border, where the community consists of “three kinds of drug smugglers, six different breeds of law dogs, and every kind of criminal ever dreamed up”—that is, bordersnakes. When Milo and Sughrue cross paths, they head off together on a dope-smoking, trash-talking, hard-drinking, blood-spattering roadtrip across the West.

Author : Peter Brandvold
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101171394

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Rogue Lawman #5: Border Snakes by Peter Brandvold Pdf

Guided only by the barrel of his pistol, former deputy marshal Gideon Hawk no longer abides by conventional laws. Known as the Rogue Lawman, he serves his own brand of justice by carving his way through the West, leaving fallen criminals in his wake… This time it’s Hawk who’s been tracked down. The same governors who had a death warrant on Hawk’s head now desperately need his help to end the bloody carnage sweeping the Southwest… A gang of merciless Apaches, along with their leader, a turncoat called Wilbur “Knife-Hand” Monjosa, are on the loose. Losing his hand to a Mojave axe, Monjosa replaced his bloody stump with a razor-sharp knife. He’s a savage who’ll cut down anything in his way… Knife-Hand can only be matched with the kind of ruthlessness that burns within the Rogue Lawman. Monjosa’s killer instinct is as sharp as his hand, but Hawk’s fighting with something mightier than anything in Knife-Hand’s artillery—a personal vendetta…

Author : LeRoy Panek
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0879728205

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New Hard-boiled Writers, 1970s-1990s by LeRoy Panek Pdf

"With an eye toward the origins and development of the hard-boiled story, LeRoy Lad Panek comments both on the way it has changed over the past three decades and examines the work of ten significant contemporary hardboiled writers. Chapters show how the new writers have used the hard-boiled story and the hard-boiled hero to make powerful statements about reality in the last quarter of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Bill Cunningham,Steven L. Davis,Rollo K. Newsom
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780292717374

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Lone Star Sleuths by Bill Cunningham,Steven L. Davis,Rollo K. Newsom Pdf

A collection of thirty short crime stories set in Texas by a variety of writers, including Kinky Friedman, Mary Willis Walker, and Carolyn Hart.

Author : Nick Rennison,Richard Shephard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Crime in literature
ISBN : 0952740567

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Waterstone's Guide to Crime Fiction by Nick Rennison,Richard Shephard Pdf

Author : Stephen McVeigh,Nicola Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415825658

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Men After War by Stephen McVeigh,Nicola Cooper Pdf

This book is an innovative collection of original research which analyzes the many varieties of post-conflict masculinity. Exploring topics such as physical disability and psychological trauma, and masculinity and sexuality in relation to the "feminizing" contexts of wounding and desertion, this volume draws together leading academics in the fields of gender, history, literature, and disability studies, in an inter- and multi-disciplinary exploration of the conditions and circumstances that men face in the aftermath of war.

Author : Barry Forshaw
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405383875

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The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction by Barry Forshaw Pdf

The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction takes the reader on a guided tour of the mean streets and blind corners that make up the world’s most popular literary genre. The insider’s book recommends over 200 classic crime novels from masterminds Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith to modern hotshots James Elroy and Patricia Cornwall. You’ll investigate gumshoes, spies, spooks, serial killers, forensic females, prying priests and patsies from the past, present, and future. Complete with extra information on what to read next, all movie adaptions, and illustrated throughout with photos and diagrams ...all the evidence that counts

Author : Joel Myerson,George Parker Anderson,Julie B. Anderson
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025166708

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Walt Whitman by Joel Myerson,George Parker Anderson,Julie B. Anderson Pdf

Essays on American writers whose lives and careers span the history of hard-boiled writing, from its birth in American pulp magazines of the 1920s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Characteristic of this writing is an objective viewpoint, impersonal tone, violent action, colloquial speech, tough characters and understated style, usually but not limited to detective or crime fiction.

Author : Edward Joseph Beverly
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Western stories
ISBN : 9780865346031

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Chasing the Sun by Edward Joseph Beverly Pdf

"Chasing the Sun" is a guide to Western fiction with more than 1,350 entries, including 59 reviews of the author's personal favorites, organized around theme.

Author : James Crumley
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101973554

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The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley Pdf

One of the most influential crime novels ever written, by a legend of the genre. Tough, hard-boiled, and brilliantly suspenseful, The Last Good Kiss is an unforgettable detective story starring C. W. Sughrue, a Montana investigator who kills time by working at a topless bar. Hired to track down a derelict author, he ends up on the trail of a girl missing in Haight-Ashbury for a decade. The tense hunt becomes obsessive as Sughrue takes a haunting journey through the underbelly of America's sleaziest nightmares.

Author : James Crumley
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101971482

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The Mexican Tree Duck by James Crumley Pdf

WINNER OF THE DASHIELL HAMMETT AWARD One night up in Montana, C.W. Sughrue sets his seedy bar’s pricey jukebox in front of an oncoming freight train. When predictable results ensue, he needs to find a way to make some money and pay back the jukebox company. So even though Sughrue’s officially retired from P.I. work, he picks up one small-time case involving some kidnapped fish. That fishy trail leads to a much bigger case involving a Texas politician's kidnapped wife, a valuable piece of pre-Columbian pottery, and a single mother who packs guns and stolen goods in her infant son's diaper bag.

Author : James Crumley
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101973578

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The Wrong Case by James Crumley Pdf

An extraordinary detective story from one of the great American crime fiction authors. Milo once had a thriving divorce-case business in the small town of in the Pacific Northwest, but because of liberal new divorce laws he has taken to drinking and staring out the window. He's up to his third drink of the morning when an attractive young woman walks into his office and asks him to find her brother. He takes on what seems a routine missing-person case in hopes of getting to know her better, but finds himself involved in what is most definitely the wrong case. Everyone is a victim, one way or another, of a crime that took place long before the novel begins.

Author : James Crumley
Publisher : Random House
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473540705

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The Final Country by James Crumley Pdf

‘This complex thriller is so hardboiled it makes Ellroy and Connelly read like Simon and Garfunkel... it’s good. Very good’ Time Out Settling – and calming – down is never easy. Especially not for Milo Milodragovitch. He’s set up a bar, and found a woman he thinks he may love, but he can’t leave his work as a private investigator behind entirely. When he crosses paths with ex-con Enos Walker, and as the bullets fly, he’s launched on to a cocaine- and alcohol-fuelled quest to solve a 20-year-old mystery. It’s a journey that will take him racing across Texas, Montana and Mexico, with barely a moment for him – or you – to catch breath... ‘A brilliant achievement, with Crumley returned to his full powers, seeming to say with each assured sentence, “Yeah, I’m an old dog, but I still wag the baddest bone”’ Publishers Weekly

Author : Teal Triggs,Roger Sabin
Publisher : Codex
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : UOM:39015061857234

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Below Critical Radar by Teal Triggs,Roger Sabin Pdf

The move from the underground to the mainstream by many fanzines and underground comics has been largely ignored by the mainstream media. These writings consider how and why this has occurred and the relationship between reader and producer.

Author : Michael Ashley
Publisher : Constable
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106011224422

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The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction by Michael Ashley Pdf

A reference and overview of the genre of crime fiction, primarily covering the 1950s onwards, although major earlier writers, such as Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, also have entries.