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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