White Hats

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• ISBN13: 9780425184264
• ISBN10: 0425184269
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: Berkley

Summary

A collection of short fiction by such distinguished authors as Richard S. Wheeler, John Jakes, Louis L'Amour, Arthur Winfield Knight, Lori Van Pelt, James Reasoner, and other Western authors celebrates the exploits of legendary heroes of the Old West, inc

Author Biography

Robert J. Randisi is the author of the Miles Jacoby, Nick Delvecchio, and Joe Keough mystery series. He has been nominated four times for the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America. In 1993 he was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southwest Mystery/Suspense Convention. He is the editor of more than 25 print and audio anthologies, including the Deadly Allies, Lethal Ladies, For Crime Out Loud and First Cases series. His most recent anthologies are The Shamus Game (NAL, 2000) and Mystery Street (NAL, 2001), both PWA anthologies.

His most recent book, Blood on the Arch (St. Martin’s Press, 2000), a “Joe Keough” novel, will be published in paperback from Leisure Books this fall. The year 2001 will see the publication of the novel The Masks of Auntie Laveau, co-authored with Christine Matthews, as well as Delvecchio’s Brooklyn, a collection of his “Nick Delvecchio” short stories. He is the Founder and Permanent Executive Director of the Private Eye Writers of America, the creator of the Shamus Award, the co-founder of Mystery Scene magazine and The American Crime Writer’s League, and the former mystery reviewer for The Orlando Sentinel.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(2)
Let the Cards Decide	3	(13)
Louis L'Amour
Sojourn in Kansas	16	(16)
Lenore Carroll
On Peg Leg's Trail	32	(30)
Jon Chandler
Who Would Kill a Dead Man?	62	(25)
Stef Donev
Likker Money	87	(10)
Jerry Guin
On the Peck	97	(17)
R. C. House
The Winning of Poker Alice	114	(10)
John Jakes
Buffallo Bill's Last Dream	124	(8)
Arthur Winfield Knight
At Freedom's Edge	132	(20)
Judy Magnuson Lilly
Separating the Wheat from the Tares, Bring a True Account of the Death and Life of Orrin Porter Rockwell	152	(13)
Rod Miller
Ribbons and Gee-Strings	165	(16)
Candy Moulton
Day of Vengeance	181	(18)
James Reasoner
The Diamond Ring Fling	199	(14)
Lori Van Pelt
The Cotton Road	213	(18)
L. J. Washburn
A Commercial Proposition	231	(12)
Richard S. Wheeler
The Bull's Head	243
Sandy Whiting