Murder at Thumb Butte A Steve Dancy tale

James D. Best, 1945-

Large print - 2012

Life was never the same for Steve Dancy when the New York City shopkeeper moved west to experience the frontier. The big city businessman continues to learn the ways of the West via the school of hard knocks. In the spring of 1880, Steve Dancy travels to Prescott, Arizona to gain control of a remarkable invention. But on his first night in the territorial capital, his friend, Jeff Sharp, is arrested for a midnight murder at Thumb Butte. Dancy just hopes he can scare up the real murderer before his friend stretches a rope on the courthouse square . . .