When an old pal, Ellis Waldo, calls on Pete Stone to locate his missing son, the private eye’s investigation leads him to a dead body, followed by a brutal beating that comes with a warning—“Back off gumshoe, or you’re next.” Fed by his anger and a dogged determination for justice, Pete tracks clues to Dodge City, Kansas, where citizens are braced for the biggest event in the Cowtown’s history. A trainload of Hollywood stars is due to arrive for the opening of the eponymous movie, Dodge City, and the town is swollen to ten times its size by excited visitors. Amid the hoopla and celebration, Pete Stone must find and rescue one man while avoiding another man—the lone killer out to get him. During the chase, Pete encounters a mysterious beauty who knows more than she’s willing to tell, reencounters a nemesis from his past, and narrowly survives an assassin’s bullet, all while honoring the code etched in his brain—a friend deserves loyalty, and every man deserves an even break. Book 6: Pete Stone, Private Investigator series Michael D. Graves created the character of Pete Stone as a memorial to his grandfather. The first and the third in the series were selected as Kansas Notable Books: To Leave a Shadow (2016) and All Hallows' Shadows (2021). All Hallows' Shadows was also the J. Donald Coffin Memorial Book Award winner by the Kansas Authors Club in 2020 and a silver medalist in the Midwest Book Awards in 2021. Mike's writing has appeared in Cheap Detective Stories, Thorny Locust, Flint Hills Review, and 105 Meadowlark Reader. He is an author of Green Bike, a group novel, along with Kevin Rabas and Tracy Million Simmons. He lives with his wife in Emporia, Kansas. They are both members of the Kansas Authors Club.When life conjures its riddles, Mike turns to back roads and baseball for answers.