The Hills of Homicide

by Louis L’Amour

First published 1983

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Set in twentieth-century America in a collection of crime and mystery stories, The Hills of Homicide is a collection built around the pressures of its historical setting. 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 and introduced by the author. In the dark alleys of the pulsing cities and the savage criminal wildernesses, 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 yet has more up his sleeve than sheer muscle; Joe Ragan, the dedicated career cop who fears nothing in the pursuit of justice; and women whose soft laughter covers their underlying cruelty.

The collection shows L’Amour working in hard-boiled crime rather than the traditional Western, with detectives, policemen, fighters and criminals operating in cities and rougher margins of twentieth-century America. The emphasis is on investigation, violence and the choices people make when the law is stretched by greed or fear.