num_pages: 136
description: Redfield Pepper Burns M.D. has flaming red hair and all of the temper and vivacity said to go with it. The small-town physician and surgeon maintains a grueling schedule racing with his nurse from call to call in a powerful touring car the Green Imp. He must contend with epidemics professional jealousies stubborn or deadbeat patients and a lack of sophisticated surgical instruments. In this first volume of Red Pepper Burns stories the doctor saves a friend from morphine addiction takes in a young orphan suffers an accident that may cripple his scalpel hand and finally looks up from his work long enough to notice one of his many female admirers.
language: English
title: Red Pepper Burns
publisher: Dodo Press