Tumbling River Range

Hashknife Hartley

by W.C. Tuttle

FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, First Printing, Hillman Book #2, published 1948. Original hardcover published by Houghton Mifflin 1935. A Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens Western. Joe Rich, the Sheriff of Pinnacle City, gets drunk on the day he was supposed to get married. Embarrassed he tries to leave town. The next day his fiancee's father is found dead. Hashknife and his pal Sleepy come to town and the excitement explodes.

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1935

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Chris Stephens · Rating 4 out of 5]

pure, light, humorus western joy.
there is nothing like it in today's writing.