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W.R. BURNETT - American Realist. ‘Rico was standing in front of the mirror, combing his hair with a little ivory pocket comb. Rico was vain of his hair. It was black and lustrous, combed straight back from his low forehead and arranged in three symmetrical waves. Rico was a simple man. He loved but three things: himself, his hair and his gun.
Aug 15, 2022 · This book contains two major novels - 'High Sierra' & 'The Asphalt Jungle' - by one of the masters of the crime/noir genre, W.R. (William Riley) Burnett; and although the books are separated by nearly a decade, the respective main characters are very similar.
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William Riley "W. R." Burnett was an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for the crime novel Little Caesar, the film adaptation of which is considered the first of the classic American gangster movies. Burnett was born in Springfield, Ohio.
Apr 29, 1982 · W.R. Burnett, a novelist and screenwriter whose first book, ''Little Caesar,'' in 1927 set a tone of tough-guy realism that he pursued successfully through a 50-year career, died of heart failure ...
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Jan 12, 1988 · Adobe Walls. Paperback – January 12, 1988. by W.R. Burnett (Author) 5.0 3 ratings. See all formats and editions. Walter Grein, Chief of Scouts for the U.S. Army, must face the Apache warrior Toriano and his followers in order to end the Apache war and make peace between the whites and the Indians. Report an issue with this product or seller.
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May 14, 2021 · 14 May 2021. In 1955, not long after Dave Brubeck became the first postwar jazz musician to make the cover of TIME magazine, Whitney Balliett, The New Yorker’s veteran jazz critic, commented that novels about jazz had become “as indestructible as watercress sandwiches.”. The irony of this, he noted, was that jazz, “with its overheated ...
