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"Why did you kill her?" the policeman in the rear seat asked.... "They shoot horses, don't they?" I said.

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There can only be one winner, folks, but isn't that the American way?

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Horace McCoy

Horace McCoy

Born: April 14, 1897
Died: December 15, 1955 (aged 58)
Bio: Horace McCoy was an American writer whose hardboiled novels took place during the Great Depression. His best-known novel is They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, which was made into a movie of the same name in 1969, fourteen years after McCoy's death.
Known for:
  1. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935)
  2. I Should Have Stayed at Home (1938)
  3. No Pockets in a Shroud (1937)
  4. Horace McCoy's Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye. (1948)

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