At a difficult and sad time in his family life, A.
About the Author: Introducing Murders at Moon Dance is the celebrated Montana writer William Kittredge, the author of such books as We Are Not in This Together (1984), Owning It All (1990), and Hole in the Sly (1992)..
Introducing Murders at Moon Dance is the celebrated Montana writer William Kittredge, the author of such books as We Are Not in This Together (1984), Owning It All (1990), and Hole in the Sly (1992).
In Guthrie\'s hand, raw vitality replaces the woodenness of much writing in the genre, and unexpected grace notes in the verbal rhythms suggest the author of The Big Sky (1947) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Way West (1949).
It was an audacious debut with bold characterizations and a sharply etched, atmospheric setting The dusty town of Moon Dance, smacked down between barren mountains and a badland named the Freezeout, would also be a back-drop for The Big It and Other Stories (1960).
I\'d blend them." The result was his first novel, Murders at Moon Dance, appearing in 1943.
All right. "What about a mystery and cow-country myth in combination?" he mused, "So far as I could recall, the two had never been blended.
In his autobiography, The Blue Hen\'s Chick (also a Bison Book), he touches on that moment when he realized he could write as well as or better than the published plot-spinners.
Guthrie, Jr., turned for surcease to reading western and whodunit novels.
B.
At a difficult and sad time in his family life, A
