The Saga of Halfaday Creek

By James B. Hendryx

As Black John, "the Law" on the Creek, is fond of saying, the interval between the crime and the hanging is hardly worth mentioning. This time, and with the sometime assistance of Corporal Downey, Black John deals competently with assorted skullduggery, and his many activities include- Solving a series of pay-roll robberies, Expertly swindling a swindler, Seeing to it that Lady Ainslee-Higginbotham's fortune goes to the rightful heir, and not to a hospital for homeless mongooses in Rangoon.Then, too, the population of the Creek, made up mostly of outlaws who have tired of ducking insistent invitations from the Yukon and the United States police, has to be kept under control. Black John deals out justice to all with high accuracy, high speed, and high spirits.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1618271202
• ISBN13: 9781618271204
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Altus Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The Story of Halfaday Creek

The copy I am writing this review from is an ex-library book still with plastic covered dust jacket, library stamp, and some markings; but binding is still tight and good; some discoloration on end papers. I enjoy these James B. Hendryx novels about this isolated gold camp and outlaw haven located on the Yukon Alaska border. And the characters which inhabit the place have their own way of saying and doing things. Black John Smith is the "law" and keeps the place under control. Old Cush runs the saloon--store, and Corporal Downey of the Mounted Police shows up from time to time to just check on things. There is the usual assortment of swindlers and cheats and bunko artists who show up and try to cheat the miners out of their gold. The prose is light and crisp and often quite witty between the town's inhabitants. James B. Hendryx sure knows how to tell a good story about life back when.