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Also by Steve Hockensmith:

Fool Me Once, August 2015
Paperback / e-Book
The White Magic Five & Dime, July 2014
Trade Size / e-Book
Dreadfully Ever After, April 2011
Paperback
World's Greatest Sleuth!, January 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
Dawn Of The Dreadfuls, April 2010
Paperback
The Crack In The Lens, August 2009
Paperback
The Black Dove, May 2009
Paperback
On The Wrong Track, January 2008
Paperback
Holmes On The Range, February 2007
Paperback

THE BLACK DOVE
By: Steve Hockensmith

The Wild West just got a whole lot wilder!

Holmes on the Range #3
Minotaur Books
May 2009
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Featuring: Big Red Amlingmeyer; Old Red Amlingmeyer; Diana
304 pages
ISBN: 0312565577
EAN: 9780312565572
Paperback
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Mystery Historical | Mystery Private Eye

In the summer of 1893, Gustav “Old Red” Amlingmeyer and his brother Otto (a.k.a. “Big Red”) find themselves down and out in San Francisco. Though cowpokes by training, the brothers are devotees of the late, great Sherlock Holmes and his trademark method of “deducifying.” But when they set out to land jobs as professional detectives, they land themselves in hot water, instead.

First their friend Dr. Chan mysteriously takes a potshot at them, fatally wounding Big Red’s new hat. Then a secretive young woman from their past pops up and convinces them that Chan’s in trouble -- and they’re just the men to get him out of it. Unfortunately, they’re too late: By the time they track Chan down again, he’s dead. The police call it a suicide. Old Red calls that a lie. When he and his brother set out to prove it, they put themselves on a collision course with shady S.F.P.D. cops, brutal Barbary Coast hoodlums and the deadly Chinatown tongs.

Before long, all sides are in a race to uncover the secret that could rock the city. And their only clue to what’s actually going on is the enigmatic, exotic and extremely difficult to find “Black Dove.”