Westerns - by Michael E. Grost

Classic Film and Television Home Page

A Guide to Classic Mystery and Detection Home Page

This is a portal with links to articles on my sites about Television Westerns, Western-mystery fiction hybrids, and other Western topics.

Television Westerns

A list of my Favorite Episodes, along with credits.

Directors:

Several of these articles also discuss their Western feature films.

Western-Mystery Fiction Hybrids

Articles on authors of mystery-Western hybrid novels and short stories:

Merle Constiner Western paperback novels
Allan Vaughan Elston Western stories
Erle Stanley Gardner desert tales
Tom Curry desert tales
Edward D. Hoch Ben Snow, the cowboy detective
Steve Hockensmith Old Red and Big Red tales
Bill Pronzini Carpenter and Quincannon

My own mystery-Western short story (light-hearted fun):

The One Dollar Mail Robbery of Buzzard's Corners