From the author of the bestselling Roman Mysteries, a new series set in the Wild West, packed with danger and deadly desperados at every turn!
Virginia City in 1862 is a mining camp sitting above a rich vein of silver in America's Wild West. It's a dangerous place, full of gamblers, hurdy girls and gunmen - all of them on the make!
When twelve year-old P.K. Pinkerton arrives there, homeless, penniless and hunted, things don't look good. But P.K. soon finds allies in Sam Clemens, a newspaper reporter, Poker Face Jace, a gambler who can tell when someone is bluffing, and Ping, a Chinese photographer's apprentice. With the help of these friends - and armed with a Smith & Wesson seven-shooter and a knack for disguises - P.K. takes on the tricksters and desperados and tries to become a detective.
Fast, furious and funny - an utterly entertaining mystery adventure from an author who knows exactly how to grip and thrill her readers.
[Please use pic of P.K.'s face from HB front flap]
My name is P.K. Pinkerton and before this day is over I will be dead.
My foster parents were scalped & killed a few days ago, on my 12th birthday. I came to this lawless town of Virginia City to escape their fate but now I find myself trapped down the deepest shaft of a silver mine, with three desperados hot on my trail.
Before they find me, I am going to write this account so you will know What Happened & Who Done it.
[please set this quote in the way it appears on the back cover of the HB]
'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.westernmysteries.com
978 1 4440 0325 3
£6.99
www.orionbooks.co.uk
I have a great fondness for first person narrative and for books with a really clear and unusual voice, so I was hooked o this story from the first page! ... I can't wait to see what PK does next.
