Bill Crider reveals the story behind his novels Outrage at Blanco and Texas Vigilante Outrage at Blanco has an interesting history. What I set out to do was to write a western novel like the kind I admired so much by people like Harry Whittington, Donald Hamilton, Clifton Adams, Marvin H. Albert, and many others who wrote what were essentially crime novels with a western setting. The books were fast-paced fiction, lean and tough. I loved reading them, and I wanted to write something similar. When I began the book, I didn’t know that Ellie Taine was the main character. What I had in mind was something else entirely. By the end of the first chapter, however, Ellie had... more
