Holmes On the Range Books in Order

Cowboy brothers Otto and Gustav Amlingmeyer use Sherlock Holmes-style deduction to hunt a killer in the Old West. It is a funny, rough-edged Western mystery where stampedes, rustlers, and bad tempers keep getting in the way.

Working guard duty for the Southern Pacific Railroad, the brothers ride into a robbery, a headless corpse, and a train full of suspects. Old Red sees a mystery everywhere, and this time he is right.

Big Red and Old Red head to San Francisco and stumble into Chinatown intrigue, Barbary Coast violence, and a tong war. With Diana along, they will need every bit of nerve and deduction they have.

Old Red gets a chance to track the killer who ruined his past. But in a town determined to bury old secrets, the brothers face a deeply personal case with enemies waiting on every side.

A detective contest draws the Amlingmeyer brothers to Chicago's 1893 World's Fair. When the contest organizer turns up dead, Old Red is sure it is murder, and the investigation may change the brothers' future.

Seven short stories rewind to Big Red and Old Red's early years, showing how Old Red caught the Sherlock Holmes bug and how the brothers' first rough attempts at deducifying led straight to murder, poison, and trouble.

Big Red and Old Red finally open their detective agency, only to land in the middle of a range war. When murder follows, the cowboy brothers must solve the case while dodging ambushes and proving their new business can survive.

Two novellas and a bonus story send the Amlingmeyer brothers into Arizona cattle-country secrets and a snowbound Colorado sanitarium stalked by death. The mix of hidden motives, isolation, and brotherly banter makes for a sharp return.

Guarding a Wyoming dinosaur dig sounds simple until a human body appears at the site. Big Red and Old Red must protect their clients, sort through jealousies and secrets, and catch a killer before the badlands claim another victim.

This five-story collection follows Big Red and Old Red as they try to build their detective agency in the West. Newspaper feuds, kidnappings, Christmas trouble, and conspiracies keep turning simple jobs into dangerous cases.

A warehouse death pulls Big Red and Old Red into the polished surface and darker back alleys of Galveston. Healers, blackmail, pseudoscience, and family ambition crowd the case as the brothers hunt a killer with a dangerous cure.