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Author: Bill Cunningham Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 0292717377 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 283
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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: Bill Cunningham Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 0292717377 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 283
Book Description
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: Susan McBride Publisher: ISBN: 9780739464861 Category : Dallas (Tex.) Languages : en Pages : 354
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Dallas socialite Cissy Blevins Kendricks wants her sometime-sleuthing daughter Andrea to look into the mysterious death of her friend Bebe, who died soon after moving into a swanky retirement community. Andrea wants no part of her mother's social whirl, but she has no choice when more well-heeled widows turn up dead.
Author: Kaye George Publisher: Wildside Press LLC ISBN: 1479429791 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 210
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Everything is bigger in Texas, including the crimes! Join the award-winning Austin Mystery Writers and friends as they explore the dark side of the Lone Star State. These thirteen talented authors penned fourteen tales of cowboys and criminals, girlfriends and grifters, morticians, motel clerks, and even a big, bad wolf! Lone Star Lawless includes stories by the Austin Mystery Writers: Gale Albright, V.P. Chandler, Kaye George, Laura Oles, and Kathy Waller. The friends who contributed are: Alexandra Burt, Janice Hamrick, Scott Montgomery, Mark Pryor, Terry Shames, Larry D. Sweazy, George Wier, and Manning Wolfe.
Author: Ed Ifkovic Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Inc ISBN: 1615951024 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 270
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It’s 1955, and Edna Ferber is basking in the success of her blockbuster novel Giant. Headed to Los Angeles, where director George Stevens and Warner Brothers Studio are in the final days of filming her Texas oil epic, she is looking forward to meeting Rock Hudson, Liz Taylor, and especially the young James Dean. But there is trouble brewing. Dean, the new box-office sensation and teen heartthrob, has been accused of fathering a child with an unstable (and recently fired) extra named Carisa Krausse. The studio fears the negative publicity will jeopardize the release of the movie. Then the actress is murdered, and James Dean is the prime suspect. He was seen at her apartment moments before Carisa’s death. The police are ready to arrest him. With actress Mercedes McCam-bridge as her sympathetic sidekick, Edna investigates, determined to clear Dean’s name. Soon Edna finds herself exploring the troubled lives of Dean’s circle of disparate friends. As she delves into Hollywood’s dark side she discovers a power-ful studio obsessed with a cover-up and a solution she doesn’t want to accept—a solution that she, in fact, dreads.
Author: Wesley Ellis Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101169265 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 220
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A killer goes for gold—and leaves Jessie and Ki in the dust of his deadly trail... When Jessie's old pal, Lawson Blaine, turns up dead, the Lone Star team searches for the killer, certain that it is the same person who recently robbed Wells Fargo.
Author: Wesley Ellis Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101168862 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 229
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In wide-open Frisco, Jessie and Ki take on a Chinese gang in a deadly house of pleasure... The internation crime cartel that killed Jessie's dad is out to destroy the Starbuck empire, and they're allied with the Steel Claw, the gang leader of the West's wide-open city. To stop them, Ki fights the "tong" while Jessie goes "under-covers" in Frisco's most elegant brothel.
Author: John Woodrow Storey Publisher: University of North Texas Press ISBN: 1574412450 Category : Texas Languages : en Pages : 487
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A collection of fifteen essays which cover Indians, Mexican Americans, African Americans, women, religion, war on the homefront, music, literature, film, art, sports, philanthropy, education, the environment, and science and technology in twentieth-century Texas.
Author: Sarah Trott Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi ISBN: 1496808673 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 272
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The conflation of the hard-boiled style and war experience has influenced many contemporary crime writers, particularly in the traumatic aftermath of the Vietnam War. Yet, earlier writers in the genre, such as Raymond Chandler, remain overlooked when it comes to examining how their war experience affected their writing. Sarah Trott corrects this oversight by examining Chandler alongside the World War I writers of the Lost Generation as well as highlighting a melding of very different styles in Chandler's work. Based on Chandler's experience in combat, Trott explains that the writer created detective Philip Marlowe not as the idealization of heroic individualism, as is commonly perceived, but instead as an authentic individual subjected to very real psychological frailties from trauma during the First World War. Inspecting Chandler's work and correspondence indicates that the characterization of the fictional Marlowe goes beyond the traditional chivalric readings and can instead be interpreted as a genuine representation of a traumatized veteran in American society. Substituting the horror of the trenches for the corruption of the city, Chandler formed a disillusioned protagonist in an uncaring America. Chandler did so with the sophistication necessary to straddle genre fiction and canonical literature. The sum of this work offers a new understanding of how Chandler uses his war trauma, how that experience established the traditional archetype of detective fiction, and how this reading of his fiction enables Chandler to transcend generic limitations and be recognized as a key twentieth-century literary figure.
Author: Bill Cunningham
Author: Bill Cunningham
Author: Susan McBride
Author: Kaye George
Author: Kinky Friedman
Author: Ed Ifkovic
Author: Wesley Ellis
Author: Wesley Ellis
Author: John Woodrow Storey
Author: Wesley Ellis
Author: Sarah Trott