Gold Bullets

<p>John Peebles is retired and happy content with his fireplace his cat Polyandria his niece Lucy and his historical gun collection. Events shift after sharp-eyed dealer Nathan Hyde offers John a gold-mounted revolver with gold bullets a Colt .45 once owned by gambler Alex Peterson. Peterson was rumored to have played a game of poker that 'cracked' the remote mining town of Torridity. That evening John is summoned by phone to his close friend and neighbor Andrew Ogden but arrives to find a murder. Events quickly escalate as Ogden's son Jerry (Lucy's fiancée) is accused of murder and a hardened detective is set loose on his trail. John joins the investigation discovering that what happens in the past never entirely disappears. </p><p></p><p><em>Gold Bullets</em> was published in 1929.</p>