WHISPERING SMITH (Western Thriller) (Annotated)

Frank H. Spearman's WHISPERING SMITH is a taut Western thriller centered on the hard, morally ambiguous world of the railroad frontier. Its protagonist, the legendary railroad detective Gordon "Whispering" Smith, moves through a landscape of train wreckers, outlaws, corporate power, and personal loyalties, where law is improvised under pressure. Written in a vigorous early-twentieth-century prose,...