January
Magazine
-
from The Rap
Sheet: Pierce's
Picks for
September/October
2003 by J.
Kingston Pierce
SILVER
LIES
(Poisoned
Pen Press),
by Ann Parker.
Leadville,
Colorado,
could be a
violent place
back in 1879,
when local
silver mining
was in operation.
So the demise
of precious-metals
assayer "Honest"
Joe Rose
doesn't strike
most residents
as especially
odd. However,
saloon owner
Inez Stannert
can't help
wondering
why the happily
married decedent
had in his
pocket an
admission
token to a
Denver brothel.
Asked by Rose's
widow to help
her settle
the assayer's
affairs, Stannert
discovers
phony greenbacks
and a blackmail
scheme that
might have
contributed
to Rose's
death -- if
he wasn't
killed for
more personal
reasons.
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