Rhapsody in Red

Edge #21

by George G. Gilman, George G. Gilman

Edge journeys to High Mountain where a big music festival is scheduled. Music lovers from all over are there to see the renowned Rollo Stone group. Duke Box is the mysterious promoter of this music event. He has hired gunslingers to take care of security—which they do. They also get rid of the sheriff and take charge of the town. Rollo Stone is kidnapped and there’s only one man who can pursue revenge and bring justice to the town—and that’s Edge. Wherever he is … death and destruction are sure to follow.

Genres: Westerns

1 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

A pseudonym used by Terry Harknett.

Edge (61 books as George G. Gilman)
Adam Steele (49 books as George G. Gilman)
Edge Meets Adam Steele (3 books as George G. Gilman)
The Undertaker (6 books as George G. Gilman)

Reviews

[Charles · Rating 2 out of 5]

This has to represent the most bizarre, and perhaps the silliest, plot I've ever seen in a western. Edge comes into a town called High Mountain where they are having a music festival. The leading attraction of the festival is Rollo Stone, but there are going to be other groups as well, such as the Alice Cooper Choir, the Jefferson Survey Orchestra, and Robert Dillon. The show is being protected by a gang of gunfighters out of California known as the Devil's Disciples. You may be able to figure out just from these examples that the story is loosely based on the Altamont Free Concert with the Rolling Stones, and the Devil's Disciples are standing in for the Hell's Angels. The Rollo Stone group even plays a song called "concerto for the Devil and his Disciples." Sympathy for the Devil, of course.

Anyway, the story was clearly played for broad laughs. It might almost seem like a parody of a western but the jokes were so campy that I couldn't put it into that category. Quick and easy read, as all the Edge stories are. If you don't mind that kind of humor you might get a few laughs. I mostly rather rolled my eyes.

[Oliver Clarke · Rating 3 out of 5]

A deeply silly Edge book, but still entertaining

[terry lovell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good story no kinks

Well done George another good read shame that no mention about a bowey knife shame it's a cutthroat business but a good book. Boy George

[BHARADWAJ HARRICHAND · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic read

As usual another great book in the Edge series that makes it irresistible to put down once you start reading.

[Bill Riggs · Rating 4 out of 5]

If The Rolling Stones Altamont concert with the Hell’s Angels has happened in the Old West it may have gone down like this if a feller named Edge showed up. Full of the typical over the top western violence and corny puns common to the series, this is an exceptionally fun and entertaining entries.

[David Varley-Doran · Rating 3 out of 5]

Edge 21: Rhapsody In Red. Gilman.

The real blurb for this should read "Edge's uncompromising bellendery leads to the death of almost everyone he meets this weekend".

Filled with puns, quick easy read.