ISBN 0-9762003-5-X

PDF Format: 215 pages
LIT Format: 277 pages

This is the second book in the Henry Wright Mystery Series. Henry is a retired chief of police from a small town in northern Wisconsin. He is living quietly in Palm Springs in a mid-century home with his roommate Charles Knightly. Until one of Henry's numerous ex-colleagues, Sheriff Bill Rustow from Tuolumne County in California's Mother Lode contacts him for help in solving a bizarre mystery.

Bob Sandman is a gold miner in the Sierra Nevada Foothills near Sonora, who is entombed in his mine by a large explosion that seals him in. Henry Wright drives from his home in Palm Springs to  to help out Bill Rustow, his old classmate.

Rustow is shorthanded and needs his help in figuring out who might have wanted Sandman dead. Henry spends a week in Sonora where he discovers that it is more like the Wild West of old than the sleepy little town it appears to be.

He learns about himself as well as he meets someone who will change his life, while he uncovers who sent Sandman to die this horrible death.