Git'n Out'a Dodge: A Maurice Bordeau Murder Mystery

by Larry Vardiman, Kelly Clark (Editor)

Mr. Dillon, Mr. Dillon. Somebody Done Got Kilt! Dodge City, Kansas was a major rail hub for shipping cattle to market in Kansas City and Chicago during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It lies in south central Kansas on the Arkansas River and the old Santa Fe Trail. The radio and television program, Gunsmoke, was created there. Today's sleepy remnant of that once bustling western town hosts a replica of Old Dodge with live re-enactors playing Marshall Dillon and his friends, Chester, Doc, and Kitty. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear as Bordeau and Bristol arrive in Old Dodge on the Amtrak Southwest Chief. They assist Marshall Dillon and Chester use French Logic to solve a murder in the stockyards and track down a band of cattle rustlers.

134 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 17, 2021

About the author

Larry Vardiman is a paleoclimatologist retired in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. He's published dozens of technical books, articles, and monographs. Now he's pursuing his passion of writing novels in the style of Agatha Christie, Tom Clancy, and Patrick O'Brien. Look for 'Green Bayous', 'Moon Bubbles', 'UCLA Body Stasher', 'White Death', 'The Chicago Boys', and 'Tunnels of Manhattan.'
He's traveled extensively and finds it easy to describe locations and cultures from personal experience. He loves to cook and eat allowing him to include descriptions of mouth-watering meals enjoyed by his detectives, Maurice Bordeau and Anthony Bristol. Last, but not least, he's an anglophile who loves to add humorous interplays between his French and British characters.