About the Author:
Camille LaGuire grew up reading Ellery Queen, riding horses and watching High Chaparral. Is it any wonder she grew up to write Mystery Westerns?
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Mick and Casey Western Mystery Stories
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"The Hoosegow Strangler"
A Mick and Casey Western Mystery Story
First published in Handheld Crime, Issue 36, July 2, 2003.
A wounded victim is strangled, while young gunslingers Mick and Casey McKee were guarding he. The sherrif was guarding the most likely suspect. The blame will fall on Mick and Casey for sure if Mick can't figure out how the killer did it.
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"Trail Of the Lonesome Stickpin"
A Mick and Casey Western Mystery Story
First published in Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine in issue #34, April/May/June 2004.
Gunslinger Mick McKee wakes up smiling, half-naked, with a vague memory of a pair of pretty ladies getting the better of him, but he can't remember exactly how.... He'd better figure it out fast, before his gunslinger wife shoots him.
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Other Mystery Stories
"Waiter, There's A Clue In My Soup!"
a Happy Diner Mystery
First published in Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine in issue #30, April/May/June 2003. Nominated for "best short short" in the Short Mystery Fiction Society Derringer awards.
Over a BLT and a pastrami on rye, two detectives sort through a poisoning case. But it takes a little help from the food geek in the corner to see what's wrong with the menu.
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"Alibi"
Mystery suspense
First published in Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine March/April 2004.
A killer's plans can work in more than one way.
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"The Promise"
A Western Crime Story
First published in Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine, March-April 2007. Nominated for "best short story" in the Short Mystery Fiction Society Derringer awards.
In this western, young Lila promised her mother that she wouldn't let their vicious Pa make a killer out of her brother. She means to keep that promise.