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Title: The Master Executioner by Loren D. Estleman ISBN: 0-8125-8437-6 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 16 September, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Master Writer
Comment: No one writes a better western than Loren D. Estleman. In The Master Executioner, Estleman tells the story of a hangman in the middle of the 19th century. As is always the case with this author, the reader is treated to incredible dialogue and characters that are immediately drawn with a few expert lines and details. I will not give away the ending, suffice to say this is a terribly sad novel about a complex and very unique man. Estleman is too fine a writer to pull at your heartstrings in a clichéd or obvious way. The man character, Executioner Oscar Stone, is not the sort of character that would easily win a reader's sympathy. He is, first and foremost, a hangman. He is also a hard, cold individual never at ease among his fellow humans. Yet, in Estleman's expert hands, this character lives and breaths and, finally, effects the reader very deeply.
Estleman is also the master of the authentic western. This book contains rich, detailed portraits of western towns, both large and small, from this time period. He is always accurate in the details, and I always feel Estleman gives me the most accurate portrait of how things really must have been in the West, more so than any other author. For the best taste of this, one should read Bloody Season by this author for the best account of the Shootout at the OK Corral.
Fascinating characters and great, original writing. Buy this book. You will not regret it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hell's Bells!
Comment: What I really want to know is why, how, why do they turn to the left a half turn? They are just hanging from a rope. How does the rope know?
Tom Horn had a perfect hanging in Steve McQueen's movie. "... he joined the others in that graceful half turn to the left."
"The rope caught with a quivering twang, a gentle bass note heard only by Stone...The rope creaked, rotating a half turn to the left."
"The rope creaked and the body turned halfway around to the left, a pendulum drifting to a halt."
"The platform twitched...then it swayed in accompaniment with the creaking of the rope as the body completed its semi revolution to the left."
The "Tombstone Epitaph," writer was surprised by the ending of the "Master Executioner." Nevertheless, the ending was foretold about a hundred pages in when Rudd revealed, "Hell's Bells, you could fill a book with them..
Rating: 4
Summary: Hells Bells
Comment: What I really want to know is why, how, why do they turn to the left a half turn? They are just hanging from a rope. How does the rope know?
Tom Horn had a perfect hanging in Steve McQueen's movie. "... he joined the others in that graceful half turn to the left."
"The rope caught with a quivering twang, a gentle bass note heard only by Stone...The rope creaked, rotating a half turn to the left."
"The rope creaked and the body turned halfway around to the left, a pendulum drifting to a halt."
"The platform twitched...then it swayed in accompaniment with the creaking of the rope as the body completed its semi revolution to the left."
The "Tombstone Epitaph," writer was surprised by the ending of the "Master Executioner." Nevertheless, the ending was foretold about a hundred pages in when Rudd revealed, "Hell's Bells, you could fill a book with them...!"
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Title: Journey of the Dead by Loren D. Estleman ISBN: 0812549163 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 15 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Billy Gashade : An American Epic by Loren D. Estleman ISBN: 0812549155 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 15 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Something Borrowed, Something Black: A Peter Macklin Novel by Loren D. Estleman ISBN: 081254546X Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 14 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Murdock's Law by Loren D. Estleman ISBN: 0812535391 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 15 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Sinister Heights: An Amos Walker Novel by Loren D. Estleman ISBN: 0892967382 Publisher: Mysterious Press Pub. Date: 12 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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