Goodreads asked Paul Colt:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Paul Colt This is a great question. For me the best ideas seem to show up at unexpected times and places. The idea for A Question of Bounty: The Shadow of Doubt came from a magazine article on the controversy surrounding the death of Billy the Kid. That piqued my curiosity and started my research. When I put Pat Garrett's book The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid next to John Poe's memoir The Death of Billy the Kid, I knew I was on to a story. Poe was Garrett's deputy on the scene that fateful night. Garrett's book is the accepted historical record. Poe's account doesn't quite agree. The questions Poe raises lead to a shadow of doubt.

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