The Case of the Pistol-packing Widows: Book 3 - Couverture souple

Lawrence, Caroline

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1444008757 ISBN 13 : 9781444008753

Editeur : Orion Children's Books, 2014

Synopsis

When P.K. is suddenly abducted, he fears he's going to be thrown in the river to drown. In fact, he's about to get a new case. He must travel to Carson City, don a disguise and shadow his friend and mentor, Poker Face Jace. But Jace isn't easy to fool, P.K.'s widow woman disguise is horribly uncomfortable and, as if that's not bad enough, it seems somebody might be trying to kill him! Can P.K. survive amid the gun-slingers, gamblers and desperados of Carson City?

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Prepare for canyons, buckskin ponies, railroads and gamblers. (Ysenda Maxtone Graham Country Life 2013-11-27)

Twelve-year-old half-Lakota "double-orphan" detective P.K. Pinkerton heads to Carson City in the third of the disarming Western Mysteries series.

The year is 1862, and news of P.K.'s private-eye prowess has spread through the Nevada Territory. A high-class Virginia City courtesan hires the detective to spy on her possibly unfaithful fiance, the very same Poker Face Jace who is P.K.'s beloved mentor. P.K. has what he calls a "Thorn," difficulty showing or reading emotion; Jace has taught his protégé to read people's "tells," and not just around the poker table. As P.K. shadows Jace in Carson City, he thinks "Blind Widow Woman" will be his best disguise ever-until his "sock bosom" migrates north. (P.K.'s true gender is deliberately left iffy until the end.) Carson City is alive with gamblers and guns, drinkers and desperados...even a young Sam Clemens. The silver mines are humming, the railroad's coming, and the colorful legislature wrangles the law. P.K.-the best kind of hero-navigates it all with unblinking acceptance of the salty characters he meets, straight-shooting honesty and impressive investigative work. The young detective's drily hilarious first-person accounts keep the story at a gallop.

No disguise can mask P.K. Pinkerton's stout heart and steely resolve in Lawrence's third (and mighty fine) Wild West adventure.

(Kirkus starred review)

Quatrième de couverture

I had promised Ma Evangeline I would never gamble, but we were not playing poker for money. We were playing for Mr. Jason Francis Montgomery.

My name is P.K. Pinkerton, Private Eye. This is an account of how taking a Case in Carson City got me quicksanded, buzz-sawed & blizzarded. And also blasted at by a pistol-packing widow.

Praise for The Case of the Deadly Desperados . . .
'Scalpings, six shooters, saloons and stage coaches. Clear your calendar because you'll want to read this in a single sitting!'
Robert Muchamore, author of the CHERUB series

www.pkpinkerton.com

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£6.99

Cover illustration by Alexander Wells

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Orion Children's Books
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1444008757
• ISBN 13: 9781444008753
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192