The Double-A Western Detective Agency

A Holmes on the Range Mystery

By: Steve Hockensmith

Narrated by: John McLain

Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer’s dream has come true: The Sherlock Holmes-worshiping cowboy brothers are finally in business as professional detectives. But their fledgling A.A. Western Detective Agency faces a few challenges. Their partner, Col. Crowe, is almost as cantankerous and secretive as Old Red himself. The colonel’s daughter, Diana, insists on tagging along for the Amlingmeyers’ first assignment. And that assignment lands them smack dab in the middle of a range war - with Big Red and Old Red expected to shoot it out with rustlers rather than rustle up clues and solve a mystery.

When the violence claims an unexpected victim, however, the Amlingmeyers are called upon to holster their guns (for a moment) and use their “Holmesifying” skills to track down the killer. But someone else is tracking them...someone who seems to set one ambush after another for the brothers. Will the Double-A Western Detective Agency’s first case also be its last?

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Hockensmith serves up loads of fun

I've been a fan of Steve Hockensmith for years, and in this new volume of his Holmes on the Range series, he delivers the goods again. Old Red and Big Red get "deducifying" and the fun begins. It's an ideal mix of Hockensmith's trademark humor and plot twists. Loved it!

loved it!

I have eagerly awaited the return of Old Red and Big Red. this book did not disappoint. I did miss William Dupree as the narrator though.

Action packed adventure for the Double A

Great story with some fun twists, a lot of good action and, of course, brilliant deducifying. This reader is the worst in the series, though. There were too many mispronounced words and sentences read in a way that made it clear that the reader didn’t understand the meaning as he put accents on the wrong words and pauses in odd places.

Great story really hate narrator ruins the series A terrific loss for all of us won’t be buying these anymore

So if you have a best-selling series that everyone loves and I believe you’re a former engineer living in the bay area with your family and you’re bored you get so bored that you turn down the money from the series just to change the narrator you had to be told that that was the wrong narrator who told you that ? An attorney your manager someone who gets a cut of the fees? you change the person we knew that person we were friends with that person in our books he was our hero and you changed him into a sleazy city slicker please tell me that you made a lot of money off of stupid decision I hope so for god sake‘s you have ruined your books but I guess you’re rich enough you don’t care Sounds like an inside New Yorker really?

another entertaining adventure

the old west was a complicated place. other glimpse of history. love the characters but wish they made more use of them. we see them again?

the narrator did just fine. don't let anybody tell you different just because they hate change.