Hidden Blood
By Tuttle, W. C.
Drifting cowpunchers Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens ride into the sun-baked Southwest with nothing more dangerous in mind than boiling the rheumatism out of Hashknife's aching leg at a remote hot spring. But before they ever reach the water, a midnight stagecoach is robbed, a silent young passenger is gunned down with his hands in the air, and the partners find themselves drawn into the secrets of Hawk Hole—a borderland valley ruled by the towering, reclusive Big Medicine Hawkworth, his Nez Percé wife, and their beautiful half-breed daughter Wanna. With a crooked gambler's saloon, a flashy Mexican rascal nursing a grudge, and a missing fortune in express gold, trouble finds the two wanderers as surely as it always does. A classic Hashknife Hartley range-detective Western, rich in dry humor, frontier atmosphere, and slow-building mystery.
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers
First published: 1925