The Crack in the Lens »

STEVE HOCKENSMITH is a widely published journalist and author of the critically acclaimed novels featuring Old Red and Big Red, including the Edgar Award finalist, Holmes On the Range.

Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer, the crime-solving brothers first introduced in Steve Hockensmith's Edgar Award nominee Holmes on the Range, head to Texas to right a five-year-old wrong and find themselves in some of the worst situations of their lives.

The New York Times - Marilyn Stasio

Two late-19th-century cowboy brothers who become so caught up in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes that they turn themselves into Wild West "deducifiers" in the manner of Holmes and Watson—how cute is that? Not only cute but clever, as Steve Hockensmith demonstrates in The Crack in the Lens and the three previous books in his idiosyncratic series featuring Old Red Amlingmeyer …and his irrepressible younger sibling, Big Red