Review: Decent small collection of stories
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 13, 2013
Small collection of 5 short mysteries (the title story, The Hoosegow Strangler, Trail of the Lonesome Stickpin, Alibi, The Promise), padded with the opening chapters of Have Gun, Will Play, featuring characters from two of the stories.I picked up this book free during an Amazon giveaway. The stories themselves are not bad, although a serious weakness is that the solution usually relied on information the reader did not have until the brilliant sleuth revealed it. (Of course, that is also true of most of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.) The Mick and Casey stories are Western mysteries, an unusual genre. I didn't find either of the characters particularly likable but I didn't throw the Kindle across the room in disgust.