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On the Wrong Track: A Holmes on the Range Mystery

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I loved Holmes on the Range, the first novel in what I hope is a long-running series starring the Amlingmeyer brothers. Gustav ("Old Red"), the elder brother, worships Sherlock Holmes, and emulates his hero's "deducifying" to solve several murders on the Pacific Express. Assisted by his younger brother, Otto ("Big Red"), who plays Watson to his Holmes, he manages to solve the mystery before they reach San Francisco, and also introduce a new character, who sounds like she may reappear in a future novel.

The book is interspersed with lively, original characters, from railroad robber barons to the "Give 'Em Hell Boys", who are making a career of robbing the Pacific Express, to a broken down old cowboy who is riding into the sunset of his life as a Pinkerton detective.

As with the first book, it is a fun read--not intellectual, not heavy, but something witty and amusing to read curled up in a fleecy blanket by the fire after a leisurely bubble bath.