The Strange Case of Cavendish: Second Take

“A clever premise that promises to breathe new life into old tomes …”
- Byron Rupert McCafferty, Online Critics Corner

Dubbed “An Erotic Western Thriller,” the posthumous collaboration between a popular western romanticist and a modern-day “book doctor” has produced a new kind of fictional hybrid. This retold adventure pits a spirited New York newspaperwoman against a shyster lawyer, dangerous cowboys, and Mexican banditos -- with an assist by a strike-it-rich miner, a town marshal, and a kidnapped millionaire.

Although many of Randall Parrish’s book are about the Old West, he was a Midwesterner born in Rose Cottage in Kewanee, Illinois. After graduating from law school, he joined a firm in Wichita, Kansas, and eventually became city attorney. Switching career, he became a reporter with the Rocky Mountain News, the start of a long career with various newspapers. While working with the Associated Press, he published his first work of fiction, When Wilderness Was King. Numerous popular novels followed.

Howard Lowell Osterman has a fondness for westerns, science fiction and horror fiction. Raised in the south, he worked for several newspapers before becoming a popular writer-for-hire, working with book packagers and custom publishers. With a growing reputation as a “book doctor,” he has taken on a number of editing assignments, but prefers writing original fiction. His chilling novel Short Changed is the first entry in a trilogy. He is the editor responsible for the Zane Grey’s Two-Gunned Tales anthologies.