Patrick Culhane, Black Hats
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Patrick Culhane, Black Hats
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Black Hats Patrick Culhane Morrow, Ma
Black Hats
Patrick Culhane
Morrow, Mar 27 2007, $24.95
ISBN: 0060892536
In 1920 in Los Angeles, the widow of Doc Holliday, "Big Nosed Kate" Elder, hires her late spouse's best friend, private investigator Wyatt Earp, to help her son John, a speakeasy owner, with problems caused by a small time thug Alphonse Capone. Wyatt agrees, willing to do anything for Doc's widow.
In New York, Wyatt hooks up with another of his Old West pals, Morning Telegraph sportswriter Bat Masterson. They learn that Johnny is a chip off of the old Doc block as he refuses to cow tow to gangsters. Instead he sells his pre-Prohibition liquor at his joint while the tough guys demand he sell their watered down alcohol and pay protection or else. Wyatt and Bat may be senior citizens with .45s battling young punks using Tommy guns, but so what as bullets and booze battle in the Big Apple.
The tale starts off more like a historical thriller than a 1920s crime caper as Wyatt spends a lot of the early pages reminiscing about the good old bad days in the untamed Wild West with Big Nosed Kate and Bat. Once Wyatt moves past his well-written nostalgia, the storyline turns into an exhilarating action-packed thriller as Al Capone vs. Earp and Masterton in a terrific High Noon showdown.
Harriet Klausner
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