Reseña del libro "Hangrope Creek (en Inglés)"
Hangrope Creek has already built the gallows. Dakota Armbruster just has to decide whether the man beneath it belongs there.Dakota rides into a cold Colorado mining camp intending to rest his injured ribs, give Tarp a night in the livery, and be back on the road by morning. Instead, he finds a town with forty unpaid miners, a stolen payroll, a murdered company paymaster—and Patrick Daugherty sitting in the county jail while his neighbors finish building the rope that may hang him.The case against Patrick looks ugly. He publicly threatened Nathaniel Porter, followed him out of town, lied about where he had been, and was found with Porter’s blood on his clothes and company money in his pocket. Even Patrick’s daughter admits her father has made it nearly impossible for anyone to believe him. She asks Dakota for only one thing: spend a few minutes asking whether Hangrope Creek is about to hang the right man.A few minutes become a day when Dakota discovers that the battered payroll strongbox may have been opened before somebody tried to make it look forced. Then the mine ledgers begin raising questions of their own. The money was already going wrong before Porter was murdered, and the men with access to the records, the road, and the payroll know more than they are saying.Meanwhile, snow is closing the mountain roads, the missing wages are squeezing every merchant and family in town, and an angry miners’ committee has decided it will not wait forever for county law. Dakota has no badge, no authority, and no certainty that Patrick Daugherty is innocent. What he does have is evidence that refuses to fit the story everybody wants to believe—and a gallows waiting for sundown.To save a man who may deserve plenty of things short of hanging, Dakota will have to find the stolen payroll, uncover who really wanted Nathaniel Porter dead, and get the truth back to Hangrope Creek before impatience becomes frontier justice.HANGROPE CREEK is the second Dakota Armbruster Western, a traditional Western mystery filled with mining-camp tension, hard country, dry humor, frontier justice, and a reluctant drifter who keeps discovering that riding away is easier than living with what happens after he does. Read more
