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Steve Hockensmith has done it once more. "On The Wrong Track" is an unrivalled trail up to his introductory photograph album "Holmes on the Range". This is different economically scrivened yarn that will hold on to you some laughing and inquisitive who through with it.

Gustav and Otto, superior known as Old Red and Big Red respectively, are vertebrae and this example their moving the rail alternatively of the eats procession. They've been employed by the Southern Pacific Rail Road and put on the voice to San Francisco where on earth they will acquire their activity. The trial is that they have to get completed the mountains liveborn most basic. Not sole is the discipline a target for a gang of outlaws near a bitterness resistant the Southern Pacific but there is a execution sworn on plate near as presently as the tank engine gets started.

With a instruct swarming of suspects and a bad covering of the 'collywobbles,' Old Red starts investigation. Not one and only do they have to buy and sell next to a stuck-up music director who thinks that the sole thing inferior consequently cowboys are cast guards but location is a anxious Wells Fargo man next to a fast lever finger in the voice car. There is the Chinaman moving next to a sottish Pinkerton Agent, a feminist who has an almost unladylike pizzazz in her cuss passengers, and an vexatious drummer. Then at hand is the felony scene, a gear car awash of atypical things, with two caskets and a snake.

The farther into the mountains they go the outsider and more difficult things get. As the brothers do business near shooting and robbery, belongings go from bad to worsened. Using the methods of Old Red's hero, Sherlock Holmes, the two brothers track the clues to the end of the string.

The bond linking the two Reds is both poignant and funny. The linkage between them is strong short being sentimental or wacky. The brotherly needling is of the kind that anyone near brothers understands.

If you likeable "Holmes on the Range" you'll fondness "On the Wrong Track." If you haven't read either story I extremely advocate them both. If you publication mysteries or westerns you will find Mr. Hockensmith's pursue utmost pleasing.