Heading across Montana’s Big Sky Country, brothers Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer ride into a mystery when they sign on as ranch hands at the British-owned Bar VR Ranch, which is mismanaged by a conniving Englishman and ramrodded by a vicious foreman. When a murdered headman’s snitch gets a bullet hole through the head in a two-holer outhouse, Sherlock devotee Old Red puts his deductive skills to work. The Master would have been proud of his follower’s expertise in clues and bullets.


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