Lance Sidesaddle: Tales of the Old West's Most Lovable Lout

by Lee Baldwin

Genres: Humor & Satire

Synopsis

An accomplished and amusing short story collection with an honest, cheerful and refreshing hero. Well worth a look.
~ Pop Bop TOP 1000 REVIEWER

Here's a time machine of old West humor, satirical cowboy feel-good romance in short story form.
Lancelot Sidesaddle is a man in a time warp.

His style of dress and personal values are those of the 1850s American West. His private investigator office, above Whiskey Row in Prescott Arizona, does not exist today.

But if you find his doorway and climb the stairs, you'll travel back in time 160 years to an era when ladies wore long bustled skirts, the stage coach traveled four days to Phoenix, AZ, and gold prospecting cattle rustling were active on the high plateau south of Flagstaff.
Lance drives a beater Chevy V8 pickup he calls Ol’ Paint, due to the flaking primer that adorns any body parts that are not rust-colored. He calls it a Dodge because that sounds more Western. It’s a 4X4, but it’s only running on seven cylinders. Much like our boy, Lance.

Some say he's been working with glue too much.
Lance lives in a single-wide in Wilhoit, AZ, just over yonder ridge. He’s perpetually on the trail of bad guys ‘n gals he hears of through the grapevine, which takes him to the various nightspots and locales around Prescott, AZ, which he affectionately calls Preskitt.
Lance never realizes he’s the butt of all jokes. If he did, he would take it philosophically, a word he is still learning how to spell. Lance never loses his good humor and his willingness to help fellow citizens.
4 stars - Wry and Funny. The stories in this book are smart, funny and wry - presented in a deadpan, clueless style that highlights what a doofus the narrator is and what a subtle and accomplished storyteller the author is.
Now, that is very hard stuff to write. Lance has to be clueless and yet sympathetic. He has a wry and generous sense of humor and modesty, so about a third of the laughs are intended by him, and the rest go right over his head. It's hard to juggle that kind of character, and I admire the author’s skill.

5 stars - HILARIOUS! If I can stop laughing I'll write a review. This book is HILARIOUS! I loved it. Lance Sidesaddle is a PI, who, if he was any smarter could be considered dumb. He's an absolute hoot to follow around. He's always getting himself into some type of trouble that leads to his solving the mystery.
Author Lee Baldwin is witty at every turn, and if you don't read each paragraph carefully, you'll likely miss two or three of the jokes. I seriously don't even know how a person could write that many knee slappers. Excellently written, it's six quick blasts of pure fun! ~ Margaret

5 stars - I have a new Favorite P.I. I laughed until I laughed some more. It was refreshing and I would love to read more like it. ~ R.D. Avant

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Release date: December 20, 2012

Publisher: Baldwin Books

Print pages: 78