The Eye of the Hunter

by Frank Bonham

Overview

Henry Logan has been hired to find wealthy rancher Richard Parrish, dead or alive. Arriving in Nogales Arizona Territory, Henry discovers the situation muddied by a yellow journalist, hidden treasure and the beguiling charm of his number one suspect, Mr. Parrish's beguiling wife.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590772195
Publisher:	M. Evans & Company
Publication date:	03/28/2014
Series:	An Evans Novel of the West
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	190
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Frank Bonham was born in Los Angeles and educated at UCLA before serving in World War II. Bonham also wrote the Western novels Blood on the Land, Night Raid and Hardrock. His young adult novel Durango Street was an ALA Notable Book. The Eye of the Hunter was the last book he wrote before his death in 1988.

Editorial Reviews

In 1900, Henry Logan, a gunsmith from Kansas City, is asked by a lawyer friend to search for a fellow named Rip Parrish. Parrish's trust fund checks are being cashed, but letters sent to him in Nogales, Ariz., go unanswered. Thinking that the air in Arizona might be good for his recurrent malaria (picked up during the Spanish-American War), Logan goes to Nogales, and promptly falls for Parrish's fetching wife, although she's suspected of being involved in her husband's disappearance. Ensuing events are complicated by a telegrapher's error in calling Logan a ``gunman'' rather than ``gunsmith'' and further exacerbated by a newsman's creative journalism, so that every pistol-packin' cowpoke in Nogales wants to take him on. Logan does some fancy shooting down at the newspaper office to show the townsfolk who's who and checks out leads to Parrish's disappearance, sleuthing from the original viewpoint of a gunsmith and sharpshooter. His investigation culminates in a climactic shoot-out with the culprit. Some stilted dialogue (``I have shaken the dust of that town forever'') is the only drawback to this low-key, reasonably believable Western. (May)

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