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Off the Mangrove Coast

by L'Amour, Louis

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Bantam, 2-May-00. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Very Good. Mild shelf wear on black dj, lightly aged pages, library stamps on edges & endpages. From Publishers Weekly\n\nBantam has published 117 of L'Amour's books, with this collection being the second posthumous story collection (the first was Beyond the Great Snow Mountains) in a projected series of four. Duke LaMoore, as he was sometimes called, is probably best known for his westerns, but the versatile author was also beloved for his successful historical and contemporary fiction. These nine stories, originally published in magazines of the 1940s and '50s, feature typical and endearing L'Amour heroes--detectives, prize-fighters, Far East adventurers, cowboys, sailors and some hardboiled women. Only one story is a western. The others are more contemporary and take place all over the world, from Los Angeles and Paris to the jungles of Borneo. L'Amour's short stories are characterized by his legendary vibrancy, an element of mystery or suspense and recurring themes of revenge, greed, loyalty, jealousy or honor. In ""Secret of Silver Springs,"" three outlaws unexpectedly face a tricky and deadly moral dilemma. ""Time of Terror"" is a clever mystery about a dead man who is not really dead, and a hapless victim whose quick wits prove that the reader should ""beware of an honest man."" The title tale depicts four desperate men searching for sunken treasure off the coast of Borneo, only to find greed and murder as their reward. Best, however, is ""The Unexpected Corpse,"" a tightly woven whodunit with a ""private shamus"" and a delicious actress in over their heads in a puzzling murder investigation. Crisply written and fast-paced, these stories will have the author's fans clamoring for more, the sooner the better. \nCopyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n \n\n\n From Booklist: This is the second in a quartet of Bantam's newly assembled collections of L'Amour short stories. As with last year's Beyond the Great Snow Mountains, these tales are said to be based on the author's experiences long before he became a western fiction legend. This volume also contains an interesting afterword by the author's son, Beau L'Amour, who edited the collection. This batch of stories is something of a mixed bag, ranging from as far back as the 1920s up through the last days of World War II. There are a couple of boxing yarns, a pair of thrillers, ""Time of Terror"" and ""The Unexpected Corpse,"" and some fascinating pieces that came from L'Amour's worldwide travels. L'Amour was a man who lived life to the fullest. Fortunately for the rest of us, he remembered the details and possessed the talent to bring his experiences to life on paper. Budd Arthur ISBN: 0553801600.