Steve Hockensmith
In the summer of 1893, Gustav â€œOld Redâ€ Amlingmeyer and his brother Otto (akaâ€œBig Redâ€) 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 â€œdeducifying.â€ But when they set out to land jobs as professional detectives, they land themselves in hot water, instead.,Â Â Â Â  First their friend Dr. Chan mysteriously takes a potshot at them, fatally wounding Big Redâ€™s new hat. Then a secretive young woman from their past pops up and convinces them that Chanâ€™s in trouble -- and theyâ€™re just the men to get him out of it. Unfortunately, theyâ€™re too late: By the time they track Chan down again, heâ€™s dead. The police call it a suicide. Old Red calls that a lie. When he and his brother set out to prove it, they put themselves on a collision course with shady SFPD cops, brutal Barbary Coast hoodlums and the deadly Chinatown tongs.,Â Â Â Â  Before long, all sides are in a race to uncover the secret that could rock the city. And their only clue to whatâ€™s actually going on is the enigmatic, exotic and extremely difficult to find â€œBlack Dove.â€
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The Black Dove