LARGE TYPE · FICTION
Giles A. Lutz
Also known as: Giles lutz, Giles Lutz
Giles Alfred Lutz (March 1910 – June 1982) was a prolific author of fiction in the Western genre. Born in March 1910 in Missouri, United States, Lutz for many years wrote short stories about the American West that were published in pulp magazines. His story Get a Wild Horse Hunter, an example of his pulp fiction writing, appeared in the June 1952 edition of the magazine Western Novels and Short Stories. In the mid-1950s Lutz made the transition to full-length novels, and until his death in June 1982, published numerous stories about the American West. In 1962, Lutz won the Western Writers of America Golden Spur Award for his novel The Honyocker.
In the Big Inning, God created the Red Sox and the Yankees . . .
— from Blood feud
Most acclaimed
Blood feud
From the Introduction: Murderland... I had always regarded the Hatfield-McCoy feud with derision, at what I saw as the drunken antics of dim-witted psychopaths fighting over the ownership of a hog. But as I researched the topic, it soon became clear not only that I myself have more than one dog in this unfortunate fight but also that derision is hardly an appropriate response to a tragedy with such far-reaching consequences.
The Feud
1983
The saga of Carlo Reinhart, the quintessential American antihero, is a major accomplishment of modern literature and a history of our times. The sequence of novels begins with Crazy in Berlin and continues through Reinhart in Love, Vital Paris, and Reinhart's Women. Volume by volume, and as a series, it has received high praise. The place is small-town America and the time is the second half of the 1930's, when school boys found girls at summertime dances in the park, and many folks routinely kept a gun in the house for sporting purposes and/or self-defense. The Beekers, who live in Hornbeck have a series of encounters, ranging from the hostile to the amorous, with members of the Bullard family, who owns a hardware store in the adjoining hamlet of Millville. Prominent Bullards include Cousin Beaverton Kirby, who is reputed to be a redhead dick and packs a pistol to prove it, the childish, provocative Eva, a prematurely voluptuous teenager, and her feckless brother, called Junior, to whom trouble comes as naturally as ticks in a hound dog. The Beeker family consists of Tony, a nearsighted but hair-triggered athlete: his sluttish sister Bernice, who has been intimate with most of Hornbeck's male population, including the chief of police: their brother Jack, a reader of adventure tales, Peeping Tom, and moviegoer, their stout benevolent mother, and a father who carries his pride on his sleeve. While the Beekers and the Bullards are confronting or dodging one another, the standard village personages of the day-prating preachers, cops nice or nasty, lustful firemen, and even bank robbers-are going about their business.
The Trespassers
Having trespassed and explored the empty Hutchinson mansion, which seems haunted by the presence of a long-dead young girl, sixth grader Neely and her little brother become regular visitors when emotionally disturbed Curtis Hutchinson moves in.