The Hills of Homicide is a special collection that I have put together of my detective and crime stories. They were written in the so-called "hard-boiled" style for magazines that also featured the work of writers like Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Cornell Woolrich. Although I am best known for my fiction about the American frontier, there's no reason why a person who is known for stories about one area cannot write successful stories in another. Good storytelling can be applied to any area at any time.
(from the Foreword to The Hills of Homicide, by Louis L'Amour)
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