By Louis L'Amour
FROM AMERICA’S STORYTELLER: A TREASURY OF HIS nice DETECTIVE STORIES
here's a selection of Louis L’Amour detective stories—vivid stories as memorable and intriguing as his liked frontier fiction. every one tale is in my view chosen and brought by means of the author.
in the dead of night alleys of the pulsing towns and the savage legal wildernesses, Louis L’Amour introduces a brand new model of characters: males like Kip Morgan, the ex-fighter became detective who's difficult sufficient to bop a bouncer but has extra up his sleeve than sheer muscle; Joe Ragan, the committed occupation cop who fears not anything within the pursuit of justice; and ladies whose smooth laughter covers their underlying cruelty.
those are fast-moving tales of brawls the place if a guy is going down and doesn’t wake up quick adequate he’s via, of flashing knives that whisper loss of life, of weapons that blaze their deadly fireplace throughout the blackest nights.
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He said. “You damned fool! If I had, you couldn’t prove it. ” That, of course, was the crux of the problem. I had to have evidence, and I had so little. I knew now how the crime had been done. This day had provided that information, but I needed proof, and my best bet was to push him into some foolish action, into taking some step that would give me further evidence. He was, as all criminals are, overly egotistical and overly optimistic, so with the right words I might light a fuse that would start something.
I glanced up when a man in a white silk shirt, white riding breeches, and black, highly polished boots came striding along the runway beside the pits in which the animals were kept. On a hunch I put out a hand. ” He looked me up and down. “I am, yes. ” His handsome face seemed to tighten a little, and his eyes sharpened as he studied me. Something inside me warned: This man is dangerous. Even as I thought it, I realized that he was a big, perfectly trained man, who could handle himself in any situation.
I grinned. Probably the two I’d seen back in town, I thought. Wheeling the car around a climbing turn, I made the crest and leveled off on a long drive across some rough, broken country. Rounding a curve among some boulders, I saw a car ahead of me and a man bending over a rear wheel. A jack and some tire tools lay on the pavement, and a girl, her coat collar turned up against the cool wind, waved at me to flag me down. Swinging to the opposite side of the road, I thrust my head out. ” I asked.