摘要
Bill Pronzini has put together an outstanding collection of stories by the first successful writer of the noir Western. Among those selected are: Killer, the story of a retired sheriff and the code of honor that drives him into a showdown, a classic among DeRosso's stories of personal redemption through hardship. Festering hatred is another DeRosso theme, but in The Ways of Vengeance things take an unusual turn. And one of DeRosso's few departures in setting is found in Endless Trail, which takes place in Alaska at the time of the Gold Rush about an aging town-tamer who must deal with his own private devils.