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This collection of essays on crime novels and films set in the Southwest covers the distinctive fiction of such writers as Jim Thompson, Tony Hillerman, Michael McGarrity, Robert Greer, Walter Satterthwait, and many others. Included is an essay by Booklist editor Bill Ott called "Immigrants, Rednecks, and Cowboys: New Mexico Sleuths after Hillerman." Bill Ott
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When Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Tony Hillerman’s oddly matched tribal police officers, patrol the mesas and canyons of their Navajo reservation, they join a rich traditon of Southwestern detectives. In Crime Fiction and Film in the Southwest, a group of literary critics tracks the mystery and crime novel from the Painted Desert to Death Valley and Salt Lake City. In addition, the book includes the first comprehensive bibliography of mysteries set in the Southwest and a chapter on Southwest film noir from Humphrey Bogart’s tough hood in The Petrified Forest to Russell Crowe’s hard-nosed cop in L.A. Confidential.