SHADOW MOUNTAIN (A Western Mystery) (Annotated)

In SHADOW MOUNTAIN, Dane Coolidge fuses the conventions of the Western with the tightening structure of a mystery, setting human ambition against the austere immensities of the desert frontier. The novel turns on contested claims, hidden motives, and the hard codes of miners, riders, and outlanders who inhabit a region where law is distant and reputation is currency. Coolidge's style is spare, obs...