Blood Red Blues

From Plastic Tub

Cover of the rare first printing by Dell, thought to have been illustrated by Raymond Unger.

Stimes Addisson's second Dutch Forkes novel. Dutch is in a self-defeating spiral after his last misadventure. In the end, we don't know if he dies or flees to Honduras. Some have speculated that this novel reveals the true story behind Stimes' father's strange adventures. His father, Hiram Solomon Addisson, disappeared, never be heard of again, when Stimes was 12.

Excerpted

It's not that I'm a good shot at all it's just that in my business missing is an occupational hazard I tend to avoid.

Non-Canonical Text

Her gams ate my mom's meatloaf -- who knows what would happen if we shacked up.