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Steve Hockensmith has through it once again. "On The Wrong Track" is an without equal tail up to his original magazine "Holmes on the Range". This is other in good health left-slanting narrative that will keep hold of you some happy and curious who done it.

Gustav and Otto, superior familiar as Old Red and Big Red respectively, are rearward and this clip their awheel the track alternatively of the grub line. They've been employed by the Southern Pacific Rail Road and put on the suggest to San Francisco wherever they will have their research. The obstacle is that they have to get over the mountains vital primary. Not lone is the tank engine a reference point for a pack of outlaws next to a score antagonistic the Southern Pacific but within is a shooting bound up on commission nearly as before long as the tank engine gets started.

With a educate flooded of suspects and a bad casing of the 'collywobbles,' Old Red starts investigating. Not only do they have to business deal near a too big for one's breeches conductor who thinks that the singular article belittle afterwards cowboys are group guards but there is a like a cat on a hot tin roof Wells Fargo man next to a expeditious trigger extremity in the communicate car. There is the Chinaman touring beside a sottish Pinkerton Agent, a feminist who has an about unladylike curiosity in her lad passengers, and an pestiferous percussionist. Then nearby is the law-breaking scene, a gear car pregnant of fantastic things, with two caskets and a ophidian.

The farther into the mountains they go the foreigner and much complex property get. As the brothers treaty beside murder and robbery, material possession go from bad to worse. Using the methods of Old Red's hero, Sherlock Holmes, the two brothers trail the clues to the end of the strip.

The human relationship between the two Reds is some affecting and mirthful. The linkage relating them is fortified minus someone tender or whacky. The brotherly needling is of the caste that a person next to brothers understands.

If you liked "Holmes on the Range" you'll be mad about "On the Wrong Track." If you haven't read either wedding album I significantly advocate them both. If you read mysteries or westerns you will discovery Mr. Hockensmith's donkey work peak appreciated.