West Texas
Product Description
Lt. Thomas Mullin, retired against his will but almost glad to be free of the searing dusty desert around Fort Davis. A hard life in a hard place for a black man in a white man's cavalry. The US Cavalry was glad to be rid of him, too .. until a US Senator's son disappears in the desert and someone realizes that Mullin was the best tracker around.
Mullin quickly discovers that quite a few travelers and cowboys have recently disappeared without a trace in the exact same area. Here was a problem that no self-respecting reader of the Strand Magazine could ignore. No devotee as religious as Mullin could pass by a mystery as strange as this. Why, it would curl the hair of Sherlock Holmes himself ..
Consider the evidence: An empty, desolate, and inhospitable area where no patrols have found any trace of the missing men. A mystery without a scrap of evidence to examine. Unless you happen to have devoured the methods of the great sleuth of Baker Street, or happen to have a logical and brilliant mind able to piece together scraps of seemingly unrelated information and find a pattern . But what do you do when that pattern points to the impossible? And what do you do when the Senator hires drunken Pinkerton detectives to help you with the case? And, finally, what do you do when you've solved the puzzle and stand in the broiling sun facing a killer stranger and more deadly than any found in the pages of the Strand?
About the Author
Al Sarrantonio is the author of twenty-eight books. He is a winner of the Bram Stoker Award and has been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award. His novels, spanning the science fiction, fantasy, mystery, horror, and western genres, include The Five Worlds Trilogy, Moonbane, Skeletons, West Texas, and Cold Night. He is theeditor of numerous books, including the highly acclaimed anthology 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense and the upcoming original science fiction anthology Redshift. His short stories have appeared in magazines such as Heavy Metal, Twilight Zone, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, Analog, and Amazing, as well as in anthologies such as The Year's Best Horror Stories, Visions of Fantasy: Tales from the Masters, Great Ghost Stories, and The Best of Shadows. His best horror stories have recently been collected in Toybox. His work has also appeared in comic book form. He lives in New York's historic Hudson Valley region with his family.
Lt. Thomas Mullin, retired against his will but almost glad to be free of the searing dusty desert around Fort Davis. A hard life in a hard place for a black man in a white man's cavalry. The US Cavalry was glad to be rid of him, too .. until a US Senator's son disappears in the desert and someone realizes that Mullin was the best tracker around.
Mullin quickly discovers that quite a few travelers and cowboys have recently disappeared without a trace in the exact same area. Here was a problem that no self-respecting reader of the Strand Magazine could ignore. No devotee as religious as Mullin could pass by a mystery as strange as this. Why, it would curl the hair of Sherlock Holmes himself ..
Consider the evidence: An empty, desolate, and inhospitable area where no patrols have found any trace of the missing men. A mystery without a scrap of evidence to examine. Unless you happen to have devoured the methods of the great sleuth of Baker Street, or happen to have a logical and brilliant mind able to piece together scraps of seemingly unrelated information and find a pattern . But what do you do when that pattern points to the impossible? And what do you do when the Senator hires drunken Pinkerton detectives to help you with the case? And, finally, what do you do when you've solved the puzzle and stand in the broiling sun facing a killer stranger and more deadly than any found in the pages of the Strand?
About the Author
Al Sarrantonio is the author of twenty-eight books. He is a winner of the Bram Stoker Award and has been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award. His novels, spanning the science fiction, fantasy, mystery, horror, and western genres, include The Five Worlds Trilogy, Moonbane, Skeletons, West Texas, and Cold Night. He is theeditor of numerous books, including the highly acclaimed anthology 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense and the upcoming original science fiction anthology Redshift. His short stories have appeared in magazines such as Heavy Metal, Twilight Zone, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, Analog, and Amazing, as well as in anthologies such as The Year's Best Horror Stories, Visions of Fantasy: Tales from the Masters, Great Ghost Stories, and The Best of Shadows. His best horror stories have recently been collected in Toybox. His work has also appeared in comic book form. He lives in New York's historic Hudson Valley region with his family.
FictionThrillersSuspenseWesterns
RELEASED2001
PUBLISHERStealth Press
LENGTH160
LANGUAGEEN
West Texas
Product Description
Lt. Thomas Mullin, retired against his will but almost glad to be free of the searing dusty desert around Fort Davis. A hard life in a hard place for a black man in a white man's cavalry. The US Cavalry was glad to be rid of him, too .. until a US Senator's son disappears in the desert and someone realizes that Mullin was the best tracker around.
Mullin quickly discovers that quite a few travelers and cowboys have recently disappeared without a trace in the exact same area. Here was a problem that no self-respecting reader of the Strand Magazine could ignore. No devotee as religious as Mullin could pass by a mystery as strange as this. Why, it would curl the hair of Sherlock Holmes himself ..
Consider the evidence: An empty, desolate, and inhospitable area where no patrols have found any trace of the missing men. A mystery without a scrap of evidence to examine. Unless you happen to have devoured the methods of the great sleuth of Baker Street, or happen to have a logical and brilliant mind able to piece together scraps of seemingly unrelated information and find a pattern . But what do you do when that pattern points to the impossible? And what do you do when the Senator hires drunken Pinkerton detectives to help you with the case? And, finally, what do you do when you've solved the puzzle and stand in the broiling sun facing a killer stranger and more deadly than any found in the pages of the Strand?
About the Author
Al Sarrantonio is the author of twenty-eight books. He is a winner of the Bram Stoker Award and has been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award. His novels, spanning the science fiction, fantasy, mystery, horror, and western genres, include The Five Worlds Trilogy, Moonbane, Skeletons, West Texas, and Cold Night. He is theeditor of numerous books, including the highly acclaimed anthology 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense and the upcoming original science fiction anthology Redshift. His short stories have appeared in magazines such as Heavy Metal, Twilight Zone, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, Analog, and Amazing, as well as in anthologies such as The Year's Best Horror Stories, Visions of Fantasy: Tales from the Masters, Great Ghost Stories, and The Best of Shadows. His best horror stories have recently been collected in Toybox. His work has also appeared in comic book form. He lives in New York's historic Hudson Valley region with his family.
Lt. Thomas Mullin, retired against his will but almost glad to be free of the searing dusty desert around Fort Davis. A hard life in a hard place for a black man in a white man's cavalry. The US Cavalry was glad to be rid of him, too .. until a US Senator's son disappears in the desert and someone realizes that Mullin was the best tracker around.
Mullin quickly discovers that quite a few travelers and cowboys have recently disappeared without a trace in the exact same area. Here was a problem that no self-respecting reader of the Strand Magazine could ignore. No devotee as religious as Mullin could pass by a mystery as strange as this. Why, it would curl the hair of Sherlock Holmes himself ..
Consider the evidence: An empty, desolate, and inhospitable area where no patrols have found any trace of the missing men. A mystery without a scrap of evidence to examine. Unless you happen to have devoured the methods of the great sleuth of Baker Street, or happen to have a logical and brilliant mind able to piece together scraps of seemingly unrelated information and find a pattern . But what do you do when that pattern points to the impossible? And what do you do when the Senator hires drunken Pinkerton detectives to help you with the case? And, finally, what do you do when you've solved the puzzle and stand in the broiling sun facing a killer stranger and more deadly than any found in the pages of the Strand?
About the Author
Al Sarrantonio is the author of twenty-eight books. He is a winner of the Bram Stoker Award and has been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award. His novels, spanning the science fiction, fantasy, mystery, horror, and western genres, include The Five Worlds Trilogy, Moonbane, Skeletons, West Texas, and Cold Night. He is theeditor of numerous books, including the highly acclaimed anthology 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense and the upcoming original science fiction anthology Redshift. His short stories have appeared in magazines such as Heavy Metal, Twilight Zone, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, Analog, and Amazing, as well as in anthologies such as The Year's Best Horror Stories, Visions of Fantasy: Tales from the Masters, Great Ghost Stories, and The Best of Shadows. His best horror stories have recently been collected in Toybox. His work has also appeared in comic book form. He lives in New York's historic Hudson Valley region with his family.
FictionThrillersSuspenseWesterns
RELEASED2001
PUBLISHERStealth Press
LENGTH160
LANGUAGEEN
