The Hills of Homicide

by Louis L'Amour

Book Overview

For the first time in book form, here is a collection of Louis L'Amour detective stories--vivid tales as memorable and exciting as his beloved frontier fiction. Each story is personally selected, with an introduction, by the author. In the dark alleys of the pulsing cities and the savage criminal wilderness, Louis L'Amour introduces a new brand of characters: men like Kip Morgan, the ex-fighter turned detective who is tough enough to bounce a bouncer,...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881840629
• ISBN13: 9780881840629
• Release Date: September 1983
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Film Noir Classics

This book is great. Anyone who loves the way Louis L'amour writes will be intrigued by this book. Everything that represents a Noir film is here, sweaty drinking detective, the woman who is always suspect, fistfights, knifefights, gunfights, if anyone of these became a movie it would be a box office hit! The way the stories are written you can see the story unfold, this is L'amour at his finest.

Louis L'Amour also writes well-written detective stories

Louis L'Amour is best known for his westerns. He has rarely been equaled, and never surpassed in his ability to tell stories of the struggles people had in the old west. What few people know is he wrote other stories also. For example his "Last of the Breed" is a modern day adventure worthy of Tom Clancy. It does have a feel of the old west."The Hills of Homicide" is a collection of detective stories from the late 1940s and early 1950s. Each of them is well written. A crime is committed, and our hero figures out who committed the crime. And like his stories of the old west, Louis L'Amour often includes a fight and a girl. These stories from a different period of our countries history and do have a different feel to them. It is interesting to see how much technology has changed over the last 50 years. At one point a hero is trying to warn a women of danger, and he gets in a car. Now he would just get on his cell phone and call her cell phone.These are fun, entertaining stories. They are the stories of the triumphant good over evil. Get the book and you'll enjoy several fun hours of reading these well-written stories.

Great stories

Not the usual westerns of course, but great tales by Louis. 2 thumbs up!

This is one of he earliest detective Noir creations

Wonderful stories. Just get it and read it. You won't be sorry until you suddenly found out that you've finished it too quickly.

Excellent collection of detective short stories.

This book provides some of the best narratives of the old detective style genre. Louis Lamour (known so well for his western stories) creates living characters in each of these stories. The stories keep you glued to them until the very end. I wasn't able to put the book down until I finished all of them. Great entertainment!