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1: Gun Work – J. Lee Butts: a novel in the series of the exploits of Deputy U. S. Marshall Hayden Tilton. Here he’s tracking down the Coltrane brothers who butchered the Cassidy family and made off with their daughter.
2: Bad Blood – J. Lee Butts: a novel of Texas Ranger Lucius “By God” Dodge who totes a twelve gauge shotgun, three pistols, a derringer, and a knife. He’s looking for Ruby Black, the missing niece of his commander. The trail leads him to Iron Bluff and the feud between the Tingwell and Pitt clans.
3: Sundown At Crazy Horse – Vechel Howard: one man chasing another. A Marshall and an outlaw. The trail leads into Texas where the Marshall has no authority. The outlaw finds the old girl friend he’s looking for and, finally, the two men forge an uneasy alliance to move the family and their cattle herd to Wyoming, promising to settle their feud at the end of the line in Crazy Horse.
4: Before She Kills – Fredric Brown: a collection of mystery stories by the noted author of numerous works of mystery and science fiction in the forties and fifties.
I’m not familiar with any of these books, but I hope you enjoy them!
Looks like you’ll be spending the New Year in the wild west! Thanks for linking up to Mailbox Monday! Happy reading!
J. Lee Butts. I’ve never read any of these novels.
Lana and I just watched Arena, the STar Trek episode based on Brown’s story of the same name.
Looks like a good batch. I’ve read Before She Kills and enjoyed it greatly. I’ve often wished that Dennis McMillan had put the entire Freric Brown in the Pulps series in paperback; the later entries in the series are just too darned expensive!
Hope you have a high-falutin’, rustler shootin’, pulpmag rootin’, mystery-tootin’ new year!
I received for review The Elephant Keeper by Christopher Nicholson from Tribute Books Reviews & Giveaways.
“I asked the sailor what an Elephant looked like; he replied that it was like nothing on earth.”
England, 1766: After a long voyage from the East Indies, a ship docks in Bristol, England, and rumor quickly spreads about its unusual cargo—some say a mermaid is on board. A crowd forms, hoping to catch a glimpse of the magical creature. One crate after another is unpacked: a zebra, a leopard, and a baboon. There’s no mermaid, but in the final two crates is something almost as magical—a pair of young elephants, in poor health but alive.
Seeing a unique opportunity, a wealthy sugar merchant purchases the elephants for his country estate and turns their care over to a young stable boy, Tom Page. Tom’s family has long cared for horses, but an elephant is something different altogether. It takes time for Tom and the elephants to understand one another, but to the surprise of everyone on the estate, a remarkable bond is formed.
The Elephant Keeper, the story of Tom and the elephants, in Tom’s own words, moves from the green fields and woods of the English countryside to the dark streets and alleys of late-eighteenth-century London, reflecting both the beauty and the violence of the age. Nicholson’s lush writing and deft storytelling complement a captivating tale of love and loyalty between one man and the two elephants that change the lives of all who meet them.
Nice batch, Randy, mostly westerns, which I read few of, but hope to remedy that one of these days. If you want to keep up with George and I, you need to add some computer hardware.