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Gustav "Old Red" Amlingmeyer and his brother, Ctto (a.k.a. "Big Red"), cowpokes by training, discovered Sherlock Holmes through the stories and are now devotees of his method of detectifying". The two brothers are in San Francisco in 1893 with an eye towards a real detective job. But that's not working…

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I still don’t understand how I could have overlooked Black Dove. I shocked myself when I discovered I had not read every single Steve Hockensmith’s western mystery. His mysteries transport me to a time I love — the old west — not the old west of villains in black hats, but citified business bad men like the ones we have today. Better yet, these books are laugh-out-loud hilarious.

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