The mysterious West
By: edited by Tony Hillerman.
Contributors: Hillerman, Tony.
Publisher: HarperPaperbacks
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Number of pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9780061092626
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, American -- West (U.S.); Western stories.
Description: A collection of short mysteries set in such locales as an Arizona trailer park, the isolated Alaska bush, a narrow-minded Texas cowtown, and glitzy Las Vegas, and includes the works of J.A. Jance, Lia Matera, and other popular writers.
Table of contents: title: "Forbidden things" by Marcia Muller; title: "New Moon and rattlesnakes" by Wendy Hornsby; title: "Coyote Peyote" by Carole Nelson Douglas; title: "Nooses give" by Dana Stabenow; title: "Who killed Cock Rogers?" by Bill Crider; title: "Caring for Uncle Henry" by Robert Campbell; title: "Death of a snowbird" by J.A. Jance; title: "With flowers in her hair" by M.D. Lake; title: "The lost boys" by William J. Reynolds; title: "Tule Fog" by Karen Kijewski; title: "The river mouth" by Lia Matera; title: "No better than her father" by Linda Grant; title: "Dust Devil" by Rex Burns; title: "A woman's place" by D.R. Meredith; title: "Postage due" by Susan Dunlap; title: "The beast in the woods" by Ed Gorman; title: "Blowout in Little Man Flats" by Stuart M. Kaminsky; title: "Small town murder" by Harold Adams; title: "Bingo" by John Lutz; title: "Engines" by Bill Pronzino.