In Skeleton Gulch, brave men disappear...widows are turned into whores, and suckers end up dead in rat-infested alleys. Dink Drago's speciality is getting rid of vermin, and now the Rocky Mountain Detective Agency has send him to Skeleton Gulch in the Montana Territory. His job: make contact with an informant, find a legend named Vanishing Jack, and figure out how to crack the kingdom of curvaceous, six foot madam who calls herself the Yellow Rose - and who loves to see people die...Using his own brand of guts and brains, Dink gets personal with the Yellow Rose while posing as a professional exterminator. But the Yellow Rose knows exactly who Dink is, who sent him, and why. The next item on her agenda will be to throw the detective headlong into the world of wicked corruption she rules with an iron fist - and dare him to survive...

Author Biography

Richard Wheeler, an ex-marine, is the author of sixteen other books of military history, eleven of which deal with different Civil War campaigns and battles, including Voices of the Civil War, winner of the New York City Civil War Round Table's Fletcher Pratt Award. Wheeler is also the author of Voices of 1776: The Story of the American Revolution in the Words of Those Who Were There (Meridian). He lives in Pine Grove, Pennsylvania.