Fatal Elixir

by William L DeAndrea

In the Old West, Lobo Blacke and Quinn Booker confront a killer potion, and a fugitive bent on payback. In the Wyoming Territory town of Le Four, Lobo Blacke used to be a legendary lawman, until the day an ambush left him confined to a wheelchair. Now he runs a newspaper with onetime New Yorker Booker Quinn, who also helped pen the great man's memoirs.

But now Le Four is shaken by rumors that Paul Muller -- a bank and train robber whom Blacke helped lock up -- might be headed back to town to settle old accounts. And the same week, fourteen people suddenly drop dead after sipping Ozono, a concoction sold by a traveling medicine show. The brew's casualties include the town's sheriff, and without him, Quinn and Blacke must prepare to face the fiendish Muller, and discover the connection between the elixir and the fugitive.

262 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 1, 2014

Reviews

[Heidi Fogelberg · Rating 5 out of 5]

The sole (sadly, and I am not a huge fan of the Western genre) followup to Written In Fire, featuring Lobo Blacke and Quinn Booker. It's slyly humorous, well written, well plotted (though if you're paying attention, the guilty party is not really a mystery), and absolutely excels in the character area. Really, it's about spending some deeply enjoyable hours with people you like hanging out and BS-ing with. Very, very good read - maybe better than the 1st in the series. I wish DeAndrea had lived long enough to follow the story he set up for his characters, but this was published in the year after his death, so ... no. I really liked it.