I hope his style has been saved through the translation. I did some cursory checking before posting the above comment and failed to find the book the title of which was on the cover; it's "Кровавое золото", or Blood Gold, in Russian. Some of the digging later, I notice that a lot of the names are changed for the translation. Here's what I think is the list, minus whatever "Blood Gold" is: - The Broken Gun ("The Mystery of the Broken Revolver" in Russian) - North to the Rails ("Road North") - Ride the Dark Trail ("Ahorse on the Dark Trail"; clear enough) - Brionne ("The Dangerous Adventure of Major Brionne")
Western is definitely a genre that attracts my attention. I'm yet to see the 1960s classics, but I believe I've seen many of the popular modern ones. I like Appaloosa very much; it's one of my favourite films ever. It's a touching story of two lawmen travelling from town to town and not bending a knee before whoever might terrorise the citizens. Everyone just nails their characters. If one was to apply "slice-of-life" to a western, it would be Appaloosa. It's more grounded interesting than many of the modern westerns I've seen with the way it deals with things about itself: it has its own quirks and doesn't fall under the Rule of Cool.