Steve Hockensmith

World's Greatest Sleuth!

Western mystery featuring amateur detective cowboys and investigation

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Steve Hockensmith

Steve Hockensmith is an American crime writer whose Holmes on the Range series placed Sherlock Holmes's deductive methods in the American West, featuring a cowboy detective who learned detection from reading about the great detective. His novels are witty, inventive, and affectionately parodic of both Western and detective fiction conventions.

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