James C. Work

Broschiertes Buch

Ranger McIntyre

The Big Elk Murders

Beschreibung

It's 1923 and Rocky Mountain National Park is scarcely eight years old. District Ranger Tim McIntyre is investigating the killing of three elk. Gala Book, eleven-year-old daughter of the local barber, has befriended one particularly huge bull elk. She decides to protect it by leading it into the backcountry of the national park. Elk are not the only endangered animals, either. While someone's killing elk to get the "whistler" ivory teeth, some Denver criminals are "harvesting" deer and elk for a political big-game supper event. Our ranger, fearing for young Gala's safety, agrees to lead the giant elk into a remote valley, only to become stranded himself. This leaves it up to his lady detective friend, Vi Coteau, to form a posse and stop the poachers. Before it's all over, McIntyre will have to engage in a deadly gun fight, and three men will be murdered.

Autor

James C. Work grew up in his parents' cabin camp a mile from one of the entrance stations to Rocky Mountain National Park. He was a little boy with a bicycle and more freedom than can be imagined. Sometimes the RMNP rangers at "the gate" would put his bike in the back of their patrol pickup and give him a lift up the road. Sometimes a ranger would take winter lodgings at the family cabin camp. These clean-cut, upright men were his heroes, the National Park his playground. By the time he finished high school, he knew every trail, every stream and lake, and every ranger in the park. While in college, he earned summer money with the trail crew, the fire crew, and eventually by presenting campfire programs for the U.S. Forest Service.His mystery series set in the 1920s in Rocky Mountain National Park includes Unmentionable Murders; Small Delightful Murders; The Dunraven Hoard Murders; The Stones of Peril; The Mystery of the Missing Bierstadt; The Big Elk Murders (Encircle Publications, June 2023); The Lawn Lake Murders (October 2023); and new in May 2024, Down Fall River Dead.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Encircle Publications, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 437g
• ISBN-13: 9781645994695
• ISBN-10: 1645994694
• Artikelnr.: 68282744