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English
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Mormons, Mountains and the Sacred City : Utah Mystery Novels
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Crime Fiction and Film in the Southwest : Bad Boys and Bad Girls in the Badlands
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Bowling Green, Ohio
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Bowling Green State University Popular Press
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86-97
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"The Wasatch mountains which tower over Salt Lake City dominate the Utah-based mystery novels of the last fifty years. Sometimes they are depicted as mute, impassive judges of the atrocities committed on the mean streets beneath them, and sometimes they simply serve as a reminder of the wilderness of the territory in the days of the lost western frontier. Much of the state's recent mystery fiction has concerned itself with the interaction between the environment and its inhabitants. As the hero of one of Gary Stewart's very succesful novels puts it, in Utah man has to struggle constantly to make sense of a landscape 'too big, too awesome for any human dream.'" [From author's introduction]