Big Apple

Cletus Parr #1

by Richard S. Wheeler

Big Apple, a champion cutting horse, is assassinated on the eve of a major cutting horse competition. Rex Pattee, the owner, calls livestock detective Cletus Parr, wanting answers. Parr thinks maybe it is an insurance scam, and confronts Pattee. But it isnat, and soon Parr, an expert on horse racing scams, rustling, and rodeo fraud, finds himself hunting a calculating killer whose bullets find more champion horses, and might soon find their owners, too. Cletus Parr, who understands horses and their competitive owners, is baffled. He canat imagine why anyone would shoot champion horses, and the closer he gets to the truth, making powerful enemies along the way, the more danger he is in.

212 pages, Paperback

First published September 7, 2004

About the author

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There are other authors with this name. One writes Marine Corps history. Another, Civil War history. Another writes in the political sciences.

Richard S. (Shaw) Wheeler was born in Milwaukee in 1935 and grew up in nearby Wauwatosa.