Genesee Slough Murders, The-Jack Vance outline for a novel
Genesee Slough Murders , The- Jack Vance outline for a novel "The Genesee Slough Murders" was written in 1966 and is a 25 pages long outline for another mystery novel involving Joe Bain , a likeable, competent sheriff in a rural imaginary county in northern California . The Genesee Slough Murders: Outline for a Novel was first published in 1994 in The Work of Jack Vance: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide . It is currently available in the Vance collection titled Wild Thyme and Violets and Other Unpublished Works by Spatterlight Press . Although this has been referred to as "an outline for a novel," it is much more than just an outline. It is more of a Joe Bain mystery novelette with some of the chapters left as summaries. It appears that Vance was going to expand the story into a full novel or at least a novella. Despite its brevity, the story has a beginning, middle and end, although the resolution and ending seems rushed. It has some in...