Archive for May, 2009
A Visit With Steve Hockensmith, Part Two
Today we’re continuing our interview with Steve Hockensmith, author of the Holmes on the Range mystery series published by St. Martin’s.
MB: On your blog (www.stevehockensmith.com) you’ve written about taking time to read and research. What’s the process for a HOTR novel?
SH: Step #1: Come up with a basic idea.
Step #2: Begin researching.
Step #3: Jot [...]
A Visit With Steve Hockensmith, Part One
Like his characters “Old Red” and “Big Red” Amlingmeyer, Steve Hockensmith has covered a lot of ground in a short time. A regular contributor to both Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Hockensmith has earned a good many awards and award nominations since he turned to mystery writing a mere decade [...]
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The Black Dove
The third book in Steve Hockensmith’s Holmes on the Range series steers a pair of rough hewn detective hopefuls off the wide open range and into the heart of the narrow cruel city. It’s San Francisco, 1893, and Gustav “Old Red” Amlingmeyer and his brother Otto (“Big Red”), are looking for work in the [...]