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    The Curse of Scattershale Gulch, a Mick and Casey Mystery Novelette
    The Curse of Scattershale Gulch, a Mick and Casey Mystery Novelette
    The Curse of Scattershale Gulch, a Mick and Casey Mystery Novelette
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    The Curse of Scattershale Gulch, a Mick and Casey Mystery Novelette

    By Camille LaGuire

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    Was it a curse, a vengeful ghost, or murder? Or was it all three?

    When their friend Oren died from a fall from his horse, range detectives Mick and Casey are sorry to hear it, but not surprised. Oren was prone to carelessness.

    But Oren was only the most recent of many similar deaths on that same spot on the same trail, and it seems clear the first to die there was murdered. Were all those other deaths just accidents or is there something more to what the locals call the Curse of Scattershale Gulch?

    About the series: Mick and Casey McKee aren't exactly your average gunslingers. He's young and inexperienced, and has much too sunny a disposition for a gunman. She's younger, meaner, less experienced, but a much better shot. They got married the day they met, and now they're courting as they solve the mysteries of life around them.

    This novelette is 8300 words long (approx 30 printed pages).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCamille LaGuire
    Release dateApr 16, 2011
    ISBN9781458033901
    The Curse of Scattershale Gulch, a Mick and Casey Mystery Novelette

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      The Curse of Scattershale Gulch, a Mick and Casey Mystery Novelette - Camille LaGuire

      The Curse of Scattershale Gulch

      a Mick and Casey Mystery Novelette

      by Camille LaGuire

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      Copyright 2011 Camille LaGuire

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      The Curse of Scattershale Gulch

      Chapter 1

      THE STAGECOACH ROLLED in early to Pine Rock, just at supper time. We'd had fair weather, and the road was much improved since they'd first built the home station there, so all trips were generally faster these days. That was fine with me. I didn't like messenger work. It was dusty and miserable, sitting on top of a stage, riding shotgun next to a driver who likely didn't care to risk his neck over that lock box under your feet.

      I was lucky. I had a partner--my wife Casey--working with me and watching my back. She was female, and what some might term just a slip of a girl, but I wouldn't dare call her that. She was a sharpshooter and otherwise mean as a wet cat. Couldn't think of anybody I'd rather have watching my back, and I sure enjoyed watching hers. And she hated messenger work just as bad as I did.

      But we were both in good spirits, because we were only doing the job for that one day, so we were done with it. Or we would be just as soon as Oren Svensen, the regular messenger, showed up to take care of the lock box. I looked around the dusty yard from the top of that coach, but didn't see him around, but as I said, we had got in early.

      The passengers, all eight of them, crawled out and hurried off to grab their bit of food and shelter and a seat that didn't bounce around. They didn't really need to hurry like they would at a big stop, where you might have twenty minutes and that was that, but they were in a rush to

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