Clint Adams, Detective

The Gunsmith #308

by J.R. Roberts

While in Hannibal, Missouri, Clint Adams helps Sam Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain, prove the innocence of a black man accused of killing a white woman, proving that the gun is mightier than the pen. Original.

192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published July 31, 2007

About the author

"J.R. Roberts" is the pen name of Robert J. Randisi under which he writes the Gunsmith series.

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Reviews

[Edwin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another highly amusing and entertaining entry in the series that tells the story of Clint Adams, The Gunsmith, called to Hannibal Missouri by Mark Twain to help defend a black man falsely accused of murder. Author Robert Randisi’s conversational style of writing is well tuned here with dialogue between the characters that nicely advance the plot, and with little filler or padding. The obligatory sex scenes are steamy and blessed with a lot of panache, not afterthoughts like in many adult Westerns. Plenty of interesting characters – Twain, the timid young lawyer, his enthusiastic sister, and the saucy banker’s wife, and a very propulsive plot, make this one hard to put down. I read it in one day and liked it a lot.