STEVE HOCKENSMITH is an award-winning novelist and reporter. His debut mystery, Holmes on the Range, was a finalist for the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony awards. Critics have hailed the novel and its sequels as a oehilariousa (Entertainment Weekly), a oedazzlinga (The Boston Globe), a oeclevera (The New York Times), a oeuproariousa (Publishera™s Weekly), a oewonderfully entertaininga (Booklist), and a oequirky and originala (The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). He lives in Alameda, California, with his wife and two children.
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This book changed my life. I started writing mysteries because of it.
“Dazzling. Sherlock Holmes in a Stetson turns out to be a dandy idea.”
—"Boston"" Globe""" 1893 is a tough year in Montana, and any job is a good job. When brothers Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer sign on as ranch hands at a secretive ranch, they’re not expecting much more than hard work, bad pay, and a few free mom…
In 1893, Otto “Big Red” Amlingmeyer and his brother Gustav, “Old Red” find themselves in a situation that they never expected. They have a bit of money and time to do something other than scramble. It’s enough to confound even that most unconfoundable of men, their mutual inspiration, Sherlock Holmes.
So Old Red deci…
It might be 1893 and the modern world may in full-swing, but cowboy Gustav “Old Red” Amlingmeyer is an old-fashioned kind of guy: he prefers a long trail ride even when a train could get him where he’s going in one-tenth the time. His brother Otto (“Big Red”), on the other hand, wouldn’t mind climbing down from his hors…
In the summer of 1893, Gustav “Old Red” Amlingmeyer and his brother Otto (a.k.a. “Big Red”) find themselves down and out in San Francisco. Though cowpokes by training, the brothers are devotees of the late, great Sherlock Holmes and his trademark method of “deducifying.” But when they set out to land jobs as professi…
In 1893, the Amlingmeyer boys venture forth from the west in response to a summons from Otto’s (“Big Red”) publisher— they are to come to Chicago immediately, to the World’s Columbian Exposition, and compete with some of the most famous detectives in the world. Set to coincide with the closing days of the first World’s…
“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies "and its prequel, “Dawn of the Dreadfuls,” were both “New York Times” best sellers, with a combined 1.3 million copies in print. Now the PPZ trilogy comes to a thrilling conclusion with “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After.”
The story opens with our newly ma…

