Dear Mr Holmes - Steve Hockensmith torrent

Category: Adults, Anthology, Detective, Westerns
Language: EnglishKeywords: Cowboy Detective Holmes Holmes On The Range

Written by Steve Hockensmith
Read by Barry Campbell
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

Dear Mr Holmes: Seven Holmes on the Range Mysteries
by Steve Hockensmith
Collection published 2011.

Narrated by Barry Campbell
Audio publisher: Stephen B. Hockensmith, June 5, 2013.

MP3 : CBR : 64 Kbps : mono : 22.05 KHz

Sherlock Holmes-fan cowboys Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer have starred in five “Holmes on the Range” novels, rustling up award nominations and fans aplenty as they cracked mysteries using the methods of their English hero. How did these Old West drifters first discover Holmes, though? What were they doing before their novel adventures began? And how did their early, awkward stabs at “deducifying” turn out? These seven short stories provide the answers.

These stories follow the Amlingmeyer brothers, cowboys in the 1890s, known to their friends as Old Red and Big Red. After hearing a Sherlock Holmes story, Old Red becomes interested in becoming a detective like his hero. And the two stumble upon some pretty interesting cases in these stories.

The first story “Dear Mr. Holmes” recounts how the brothers first learn of Holmes’ methods of deduction and that comes in handy very quickly when two of their fellow cowboys die during a cattle drive. In “Gustav Amlingmeyer, Holmes of the Range”, Old Red’s attempt to settle down and open his own “cafay” goes haywire when one of the customers gets a side order of arsenic with his steak and potatoes. In “Wolves in Winter”, Big Red and Old Red go up against deadly predators of both the two- and four-legged variety. And the adventure continues in four more stories (most of them originally published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine).

The first few stories are set before the first novel and follow each other as the brothers go from one location to the next. Later stories take place in between the novels and reference events or characters from them without giving away anything.