Loren D. Estleman

“Cherokee's American, Ned. It don't get more American than that.”

— Loren D. Estleman

“An execution carried out in secrecy is no better than lynching from a dry branch.”

— Loren D. Estleman

Steve Forman is a brutally funny writer. His no-nonsense, unadorned style begs comparison to Dashiell Hammett, but Hammett's humor at its darkest…

— Loren D. Estleman

“Now came details of Goldby's adventures with the Cooks and their band. "Chicken, Dynamite Dick, The Verdigris Kid. I wish these fellows…

— Loren D. Estleman

I don't have so many friends I can afford to drop one just because he tried to kill me.

— Loren D. Estleman

“In 1914, Franz Ferdinand, the Austrian imperial heir, was shot and killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo. Do you know the…

— Loren D. Estleman

“Without question, his picture did not do him justice, but again, he was dead when it was taken”

— Loren D. Estleman

“Early on as news of the sextuple execution in Fort Smith spread, rooted itself in the umber soil of the western Indian…

— Loren D. Estleman

“Concealing himself from his father's wrath, behind the barn with wick turned low and his face two inches from the rough sawtooth…

— Loren D. Estleman

If the detective should suffer overmuch from the artistic temperament, and his fellow lodger should dwell overlong upon the fairness of a…

— Loren D. Estleman