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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Bob, have you tried MC Beaton's 'Hamish Macbeth' series? Highland country bumpkin bobby who solves murders in Scottish Agatha Christy type settings, usually with a cast of characters (I deliberately put that in Italics because they really really REALLY are a group of characters!) Almost a 'Colombo' in kilts meets the game of 'Clue.'...
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That sounds similar to Steve Hockensmith's
Holmes on the Range series, about two brothers in the Old West of the United States. Around the campfire, Big Red reads some Sherlock Holmes stories from the
Strand magazine to his illiterate brother, Old Red. Old Red's imagination is fired up, and he sets out to become a crime solver, using Holmesian "deducifying" maxims as his guide. It's a quite enjoyable series, and Hockensmith has become one of my favorite authors.