Give the Devil His Due
Alanis McLachlan, reformed con artist turned tarot reader, gets paid for predicting the future¯too bad she didn’t see all the trouble in hers. First a figure from her past tries to drag her back into the life of crime she thought she’d le behind. Then a new suitor tries to sweep Alanis off her feet, […]
World's Greatest Sleuth!
A Holmes on the range mystery
The Crack In the Lens
The New York Times – Marilyn Stasio: Two late-19th-century cowboy brothers who become so caught up in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes that they turn themselves into Wild West "deducifiers" in the manner of Holmes and Watson—how cute is that? Not only cute but clever, as Steve Hockensmith demonstrates in The Crack in the Lens […]
The Black Dove
Ken St. Andre – Library Journal: After Gus ("Old Red") and Otto ("Big Red") Amlingmeyer solved the crime but lost the client in their last case (On the Wrong Track), they found themselves down and out in San Francisco. Here, the death of their acquaintance Dr. Chan inspires Gus to deduce what happened, but no […]
On the Wrong Track
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. In Hockensmith's hilarious second 1890s romp starring the cattle drovers?turned?detectives Gustav "Old Red" and Otto "Big Red" Amlingmeyer (after 2006's acclaimed Holmes on the Range), the brothers are hired as guards for the Southern Pacific, a rail line bedeviled by the "Give-'em-Hell Boys" who rob gold shipments. After baggage handler […]
Holmes On the Range
Kirkus Reviews: Inspired by the Baker Street genius, a Montana cowboy solves some murders at the cattle ranch where he works. Redheaded cowpoke Gustav Amlingmeyer ("Old Red") has a hankering for the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. After reading Doyle's "The Red-Headed League," he feels that emulating the famous sleuth is his destiny. Gustav's younger brother […]