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When Pete Jones, the local constable, is shot dead, his widow, Sunset, finds herself in his job, investigating a series of brutal murders. Most of the townsfolk object to her wearing Pete's gun and badge, some because this is the 1930s and they think a woman's place is in the home, others because it was Sunset who blew off Pete's head in the first place. As much a modern western as a murder mystery, SUNSET & SAWDUST features a cast of outlandish characters -- gun-men, hobos, sheriffs, hookers, migrants and coloured families struggling to make living under the malevolent eyes of the Ku Klux Klan. Sunset's investigation leads her and her friends into a labyrinth of greed, corruption, and unspeakable malice. Nothing and no-one are quite what they seem in Texas.
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Sunset and Sawdust, Joe R. Lansdale
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- Released
- 2005
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- Title
- Sunset and Sawdust
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Joe R. Lansdale
- Publisher
- Phoenix
- Released
- 2005
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 392
- ISBN10
- 0753819937
- ISBN13
- 9780753819937
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Historical Fiction, Mystery Novels, Thriller, Horror, USA, Murders, Detective Fiction, Wild West, Literary Fiction, Race, Racism, Historical Mystery, Texas, Southern Gothic
- Original title
- Sunset and sawdust
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- When Pete Jones, the local constable, is shot dead, his widow, Sunset, finds herself in his job, investigating a series of brutal murders. Most of the townsfolk object to her wearing Pete's gun and badge, some because this is the 1930s and they think a woman's place is in the home, others because it was Sunset who blew off Pete's head in the first place. As much a modern western as a murder mystery, SUNSET & SAWDUST features a cast of outlandish characters -- gun-men, hobos, sheriffs, hookers, migrants and coloured families struggling to make living under the malevolent eyes of the Ku Klux Klan. Sunset's investigation leads her and her friends into a labyrinth of greed, corruption, and unspeakable malice. Nothing and no-one are quite what they seem in Texas.