The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On

by Eugene Manlove Rhodes

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36 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1916

Reviews

[Ron · Rating 4 out of 5]

The last time we saw James Wesley Pringle, he was helping his cowboy pals solve the mystery of a friend’s disappearance. That friend, another cowboy, Jeff Bransford, had been kidnapped and was being held captive in Old Juarez, across the river from El Paso. Through the crafty reading of clues requiring a knowledge of literature, they finally freed their friend.

Some time later, in The Desire of the Moth, Pringle is returning to his old home in Arizona and, while crossing New Mexico, stops in a town there on the banks of the Rio Grande. It is the same part of the Southwest where Rhodes’ other fiction is lovingly set: the Jornada del Muerto, White Sands, and the San Andres Mountains, where Rhodes lived during his formative years...

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[David Mann · Rating 5 out of 5]

For you L’amour fans, Pringle is the original Tell Sackett: salty, wry, a fumbler with the ladies and a tendency to pull a punch instead of a gun. Rhodes’ simple tale of good versus evil is told without the affectation of Zane Gray; will have you laughing out loud once or twice, and will move you at the end. Another solid, and under-read Western from the most under-rated Western writer

[David Mann · Rating 5 out of 5]

For you L’amour fans, Pringle is the original Tell Sackett: salty, wry, a fumbler with the ladies and a tendency to pull a punch instead of a gun. Rhodes’ simple tale of good versus evil is told without the affectation of Zane Gray; will have you laughing out loud once or twice, and will move you at the end. Another solid, and under-read Western from the most under-rated Western writer