"Old Red" & "Big Red" Amlingmeyer
Created by Steve Hockensmith
“So how is it,” I hear you ask, “that a couple no-account saddle bums like you and your brother came to be so fired-up excited about detectifying like a proper English gentleman detective?”
To which I say, “Who’s a no-account saddle bum?”
-- Otto puts a little spit in the pan.
If you've got a hankering for some tall tales "deducifyin' and detectin'" that go down right easy, this may be just what the doc ordered.
In the Old West" of the 1890s, cowpoke GUSTAV "OLD RED" AMLINGMEYER, having grown way, way too fond of the Sherlock Holmes stories, decides to set himself up as a detective, much to the initial dismay of his kid brother OTTO "BIG RED." But Otto eventually gives in and acts as a sort of fraternal Watson, narrating this quirky, entertaining series. Imagine a mash-up between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, and you're almost home.
Steve Hockensmith has covered pop culture and the film industry for The Hollywood Reporter, The Chicago Tribune, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Newsday, Total Movie and served more than three years as editor of Cinescape, before turning to mysteries, soon becoming a regular contributor to both Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. He now also writes "Reel Crime," a column about mystery TV shows and movies that appears in each issue of Alfred Hitchcock. Hockensmith currently lives in California's Bay Area.with "the perfect wife, the perfect daughter, the perfect son and a slightly imperfect cat."
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