Nominated for a 2014 EDGAR award, P.K. Pinkerton is back in the second book of this whip-crackingly brilliant series, set in America's Wild West. The death of sadistic desperado Whittlin Walt has created an opening for 'Chief of the Comstock Desperados'. Several young gunfighters are battling it out in the saloons and streets of Virginia City, and against this backdrop of gunmen, gamblers and cowboys, P.K. Pinkerton, Private Eye, is having trouble drumming up business. Nobody seems to take a 12-year-old detective seriously! Then a servant girl named Martha begs P.K. for help. She witnessed the murder of her mistress - a hurdy girl - and the killer knows it. Now he is after her. Martha gives P.K. a description of the killer and a cryptic clue, but then she disappears. Can P.K. solve the case and find Martha before the killer does?

Author Biography

Caroline Lawrence is American. She lives with her husband by the river in London and is active as a speaker in schools and at book festivals. She is the winner of the 2009 CLASSICS ASSOCIATION PRIZE for 'a significant contribution to the public understanding of Classics'. Her Roman Mysteries novels and their spin-off titles have total UK sales in excess of 1 million copies. Visit Caroline's website at http://www.carolinelawrence carolinelawrence.com and follow her on Twitter @CarolineLawrenc. Visit The P. K. Pinkerton Mysteries website at http://www.pkpinkerton.com, follow on Twitter at https://twitter.com/PK_Pinkerton, like on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/PK-Pinkerton/16580907343875 and read the blog at http://tomboycowgirl.blogspot.co.uk.