The Ghostly West

Title: Palomita
Author: Lance Howard
Format: Large print trade paperback
Date of Publication: August, 2000
ISBN: 0708956653
Publisher: Ulverscroft Linford Western Library
Available from: Amazon.com, Borders.com, www.amazon.co.uk

Palomita by Lance Howard

Tinhorn gamblers on the win meet their doom in a darkened alley behind the saloon, their
skulls crushed by a blunt object wielded by a mysterious killer and their pockets picked clean.

Reluctant marshal J.D. Phips takes up the case, finding a trail of broken bodies that somehow ties in with the mysterious vanishing of a rancher and his Indian daughter. But he gets more than he bargains for when he encounters a murderous hardcase, a greedy hurdy gurdy girl and a feisty young horse breeder--a woman with her own ideas about discovering what happened to her father and little sister.

Caught in a web of danger, dust and deception, J.D. finds himself next on the killer's list and forced into a life or death decision-- as the life the woman he loves hangs in the balance!

Howard Hopkins lives in a Maine seacoast town and has published 15 westerns, 9 of which have gone to large print editions, under the penname Lance Howard. He is an Active member of the Western Writers of America. His large print Western THE LAST DRAW is an August 2000 release and his hardcover, The Devil's Peacemaker, sees print in October, 2000. He is hard at work on his 17th at the moment, The  Silvermine Spook. During the late 80s-early 90s he produced and edited GOLDEN PERILS, a journal for fans of the pulp magazines from the 1930s, primarily focusing on Doc Savage, The Avenger and The Shadow. He produced numerous other magazines in the field and wrote a comprehensive study of The Avenger character, as well as published over fifty articles on pulp characters for various other journals. He plays mandolin, saxophone and guitar.
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