Tom Mix Rides Again
Amazon has just released Darryle Purcell’s latest Buckskin Edition
western adventure of the Hollywood Cowboy Detectives, Mystery of the Howling
Angels. The kindle Edition can be purchased for $0.99. When it is released at a
later date in paperback, Howling Angels will be accompanied by Mystery of the
Black Widow.
Classic western stars Tom Mix and Hoot Gibson join Republic Pictures
flack Sean “Curly” Woods in a race from Hollywood to the Cherokee Strip in
Oklahoma. With bounties on their heads, the Hollywood Cowboy Detectives are one
step in front of murderous agents of the Congressional Shadow Caucus, an
organization of federally elected officials who support an alliance with Nazi
Germany. With the assistance of G-man Donovan Slate, the trio engage in
shootouts on Route 66 in California, battles against an attacking force in
Phoenix, Arizona, and on a passenger train in Texas, and aerial combat and
ambushes in the wilderness of the legendary Hundred and One Ranch on the
panhandle of Oklahoma.
Warned by tribal spirits and dogged by visions from beyond the grave, the
western heroes tackle traitors who have chosen to carry the banner of evil
against their own country. Tom, Hoot and Curly fight for their lives
through the first week of 1939. Another Great War is coming, and, although they
remain secret to most citizens, the first battles are waged in Washington and
America’s great Southwest. Old friends and new unite in the struggle against
fascist killers, some of whom consider themselves patriotic Americans.
Purcell writes the series in the style of the great Saturday matinee
serials of the 1930s and illustrates them along the lines of the western pulps
of the same era.
