Robert B. Parker: Not a bad Western writer for a crime novelist
As crime/private eye novelists go, Robert B. Parker of “Spenser” fame is not too bad of a Western writer, too.
If you are completely unfamiliar with the private-eye character Spenser of novel and television fame, you must be living in an alternate universe, or completely uninterested in detective fiction/crime novels. Tell me that isn’t true. I’m a major Spenser fan myself, and I’ve read just about all of Robert B. Parker’s novels, including the Sonny Randall crime novels, his first Phillip Marlow novel, and all but three of his “non-genre” novels. So, yes, I am a big fan.
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One of the fun ‘Westernisms’: Let’s storm the puncheons
If you heard an “old-timer” back in the days of the Old West speak about “storming the puncheons,” would you guess it sounded like a battle — or perhaps some Saturday night fun in town? (Of course, old-time cowboys might have thought “battle” and “Saturday night fun in town” synonymous.)
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