W. C. Tuttle (Wilbur Coleman Tuttle) was an American writer, almost all of which were westerns. His best known character was Hashknife Hartley, who along with his friend Sleepy Stevens, served as unofficial detectives solving crimes on the ranches where they worked as cowboys.
He was also a screenwriter hailing back to the silent era. He wrote the screenplays for 52 films between 1915 and 1945.
A semi-pro baseball player in his youth, Tuttle served as President of the Pacific Coast Baseball League 1935-1943.[1] Tuttle recommended to the Los Angeles Angels that the team should ask Gene Lillard to join them.
So many twists and turns no wonder the characters often didn't understand what was going on :)
A great book by a western writer who's books are often hard to come by in the UK, especially those featuring some of his best characters: Sad Sontag and Swede Harrigan (as in this book) and also, the great, Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens.