“Mr. Edge?” Aunt Matty snapped. “What would you do if a man filled a bucket with cowdung and tipped it over your head?” she demanded. “After first stripping you naked?”
“Kill him, first chance I got.”
Aunt Matty nodded emphatically. “That is precisely what I intend to do. And the others. They all have equal guilt.”
The 18th story in the George G. Gilman Western series has our anti-hero crossing paths with Mathilda and Muriel Tree. He discovers that they are hauling ten tombstones with the words, “Dead From Murdering Barnaby Tree” already on them.
Tree was married to Muriel at the time of his murder. The ten headstones are for each man responsible, both for Aunt Matty’s humiliation and for the death of Barnaby Tree. Revenge. It’s the oldest motive known to mankind.
TEN TOMBSTONES was one of the earliest Edge books I’d read, perhaps the second or third. It was with this story that I really began to see and understand the comparisons to the so-called “Spaghetti Western” films, especially those in Sergio Leone’s MAN WITH NO NAME series, that many readers before me had already made.
A bloody, action-packed grim good time. Good cover artwork by the always-dependable George Gross.
“Kill him, first chance I got.”
Aunt Matty nodded emphatically. “That is precisely what I intend to do. And the others. They all have equal guilt.”
The 18th story in the George G. Gilman Western series has our anti-hero crossing paths with Mathilda and Muriel Tree. He discovers that they are hauling ten tombstones with the words, “Dead From Murdering Barnaby Tree” already on them.
Tree was married to Muriel at the time of his murder. The ten headstones are for each man responsible, both for Aunt Matty’s humiliation and for the death of Barnaby Tree. Revenge. It’s the oldest motive known to mankind.
TEN TOMBSTONES was one of the earliest Edge books I’d read, perhaps the second or third. It was with this story that I really began to see and understand the comparisons to the so-called “Spaghetti Western” films, especially those in Sergio Leone’s MAN WITH NO NAME series, that many readers before me had already made.
A bloody, action-packed grim good time. Good cover artwork by the always-dependable George Gross.
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