An outlaw comes off the owlhoot trail to hunt his missing brother in a bleak little town with a dark secret in Tom West's Black Buzzards of Bueno.
A colorful title for a colorful story, as an enigmatic widow draws men to her ranch through an ad placed in eastern newspapers, although all seem to take a side trip to Boot Hill first. An unusual plot with a lot of interesting characters.
Tom West was actually, although seemingly unlikely, a British writer named Fred East who took up Ace western writing somewhat late in life and mostly wrote under this name. He seems to have a lot of fans, and I liked this well enough to look for more of his after reading my first by him.
This is an Ace Double with The Guns of Sonora by Ben Smith on the other side. I got this from a big lot of Ace Doubles and read it quickly, then flipped it over and started on the other.
A colorful title for a colorful story, as an enigmatic widow draws men to her ranch through an ad placed in eastern newspapers, although all seem to take a side trip to Boot Hill first. An unusual plot with a lot of interesting characters.
Tom West was actually, although seemingly unlikely, a British writer named Fred East who took up Ace western writing somewhat late in life and mostly wrote under this name. He seems to have a lot of fans, and I liked this well enough to look for more of his after reading my first by him.
This is an Ace Double with The Guns of Sonora by Ben Smith on the other side. I got this from a big lot of Ace Doubles and read it quickly, then flipped it over and started on the other.
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