Unless you happen to have devoured the methods of the great sleuth of Baker Street, or happen to have a logical and brilliant mind able to piece together scraps of seemingly unrelated information and find a pattern. A mystery without a scrap of evidence to examine. Consider the evidence: An empty, desolate, and inhospitable area where no patrols have found any trace of the missing men. Why, it would curl the hair of Sherlock Holmes himself. No devotee as religious as Mullin could pass by a mystery as strange as this. Here was a problem that no self respecting reader of the Strand Magazine could ignore. Mullin quickly discovers that quite a few travelers and cowboys have recently disappeared without a trace in the exact same area. until a US Senator’s son disappears in the desert and someone realizes that Mullin was the best tracker around. The US Cavalry was glad to be rid of him, too. A hard life in a hard place for a black man in a white man’s cavalry. Thomas Mullin, retired against his will but almost glad to be free of the searing dusty desert around Fort Davis.
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