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Author
Series
Bud Shumway mystery volume 15
Publisher
Yellow Cat Pub
Pub. Date
c2021
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Sheriff Bud Shumway gets a call to fly into Utah’s remote and mysterious Maze District to help recover the body of a man wearing a tuxedo, he has no idea that it’s only the beginning of a series of strange happenings, from a missing symphony orchestra to a ragtag boatman who seems to be from the long-ago past.
Throw in a strange UFO-like aircraft, a group of pirates terrorizing rafters, a cafe that goes missing, an oboe case with an unfinished...
Author
Series
Bud Shumway mystery volume 14
Publisher
Yellow Cat Pub
Pub. Date
c2020
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Sheriff Bud Shumway’s Aunt Ginger asks him to deliver a stove to her new cafe in Sunnyside, Utah, Bud has no idea that he'll soon be in the middle of trying to solve how his Uncle Hank's friend, Jimmy Johnson, was killed, even though the giant three-toed track left in the middle of Jimmy's back points to the suspect as being some form of dinosaur.
But that mystery soon takes a back seat to solving who is looting ancient Fremont antiquities...
Author
Series
Bud Shumway mystery volume 10
Publisher
Yellow Cat Pub
Pub. Date
c2019
Physical Desc
180 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When ex-sheriff and watermelon farmer Bud Shumway learns that his job is on the line, he knows that big changes are coming, though he has no idea exactly what kind. And with his wife's new business running an air-based catering service, he knows she'll be too busy to help him figure out his now uncertain future. Add in the invasion of his little Utah town by a group of wanna-be Vikings, and his employment woes soon take backstage to solving a murder...
Author
Series
Bud Shumway mystery volume 11
Publisher
Yellow Cat Pub
Pub. Date
c2019
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a Mountie shows up in Sheriff Bud Shumway's Utah office and accuses him of aiding and abetting a possible murderer in Canada’s Yukon Territory, Bud is mystified, especially since he doesn't even know the guy. And when he receives a gold-mining claim transferred to his name and a cryptic message telling him to come to the Klondike Cafe, Bud is soon on his way, even though he has no idea where the cafe is or why his help is needed.
Join Bud on...
Author
Series
Bud Shumway mystery volume 12
Publisher
Yellow Cat Pub
Pub. Date
c2020
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a mystery writer from New York shows up in Sheriff Bud Shumway's little Utah town, he doesn’t think much about it, other than to note that she seems to be avoiding him. But when a famous opera singer, also from New York, shows up shortly thereafter, Bud begins to worry that fact might follow fiction after he discovers that the writer’s latest book is about the murder of an opera singer.
Join Bud as he follows the pair into the wild and remote...
Author
Series
Bud Shumway mystery volume 13
Publisher
Yellow Cat Pub
Pub. Date
c2020
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Sheriff Bud Shumway’s aunt and uncle invite him and his wife to join them for a vacation in beautiful Glacier National Park, he has no idea that he'll soon be on a search for their daughter, the same cousin Bud went to high school with and who everyone called the Jewel of the Desert. But Bud's not sure what he can do to help, especially given the strange circumstances surrounding her disappearance and the fact that she vanished some 25 years...
Author
Series
Bud Shumway mystery volume 9
Publisher
Yellow Cat Pub
Pub. Date
c2018
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When ex-sheriff and watermelon farmer Bud Shumway learns his wife, Wilma Jean, wants to sell her cafe and become a backcountry pilot, he senses his world is about to change, and not necessarily in a good way.
But Bud never guesses he'll soon be deeply involved in trying to solve the mysterious death of a crusty old Scotsman who, as he was dying, told Bud his killer was a witch's tongue. Bud soon becomes an unwilling witness to the frenzy surrounding...
Author
Series
Bud Shumway mystery volume 18
Publisher
Yellow Cat Pub
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1981 pages.
Language
English
Description
When an old rancher visits Utah Sheriff Bud Shumway with a cryptic message and then immediately dies, Bud has no idea that he’s witnessing the beginning of a series of strange happenings, from an invasion of his little town by rodeo clowns to dealing with a curse from long-gone Natives.
Throw in cattle rustling, Utah's famous fry sauce, Spanish gold, the least likely codgers imaginable to open a wedding business, Mayor Howie’s new drone, an unlikely...
Author
Series
Bud Shumway mystery volume 17
Publisher
Yellow Cat Pub
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
199 pages.
Language
English
Description
When Utah Sheriff Bud Shumway gets a strange letter saying a perfect crime is about to be committed, he has no idea that it’s just the beginning of a series of cryptic happenings, from a body that goes missing to finding another that happens to belong to a popular local photographer.
Throw in an assortment of plein-air artists, radio-control pilots (even a blimp!), Van Gogh aficionados (say that real fast), the Invisible Man, a strange canvas with...
Author
Series
Bud Shumway mystery volume 16
Publisher
Yellow Cat Pub
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
211 pages.
Language
English
Description
When Utah Sheriff Bud Shumway gets a strange letter saying a perfect crime is about to be committed, he has no idea that it’s just the beginning of a series of cryptic happenings, from a body that goes missing to finding another that happens to belong to a popular local photographer.
Throw in an assortment of plein-air artists, radio-control pilots (even a blimp!), Van Gogh aficionados (say that real fast), the Invisible Man, a strange canvas with...
Author
Series
Bud Shumway mystery volume 7
Publisher
Yellow Cat Pub
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
302 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When ex-sheriff and watermelon farmer Bud Shumway agrees to help out his friend, Sheriff Hum Stocks, as a deputy for the winter, he never guesses he'll soon be deep in the rugged and wild Dolores Triangle, trying to solve not only the mystery of a skeleton wearing knee boots, but also the murder of rattlesnake-hunter and wannabe rodeo clown, Chicken Bottoms.
Set in the Dolores Triangle, that area defined by the Colorado-Utah border and the Colorado...
12) The Paradox Cafe
Author
Series
Bud Shumway mystery volume 3
Publisher
Yellow Cat Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
226 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rancher Mack Murphy has been buying up land in southwest Colorado, threatening those who won't sell, including Junior, the uncle of ex-sheriff Bud Shumway. Bud agrees to visit his uncle to help defuse things, never suspecting he would get caught right smack in the middle of Mack's murder. And it becomes the toughest case Bud's ever had to solve, as almost everyone is a suspect. Set in the Paradox Valley, a beautiful and remote area with a wooly Wild...
Author
Series
Bud Shumway mystery volume 2
Publisher
Yellow Cat Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
222 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The crusty owner of a local rock shop has been killed in Utah's wildlands, and ex-sheriff Bud Shumway has been asked to return to his hometown to solve the crime. He reluctantly agrees, never suspecting the case involves an old childhood friend and a pair of mysterious Incan skeletons known as the Malachites. Set at the Slickrock Cafe, deep in the sandstone fins and domes of southeast Utah, this mystery will have you laughing, scared to death, and...
Author
Series
Bud Shumway mystery volume 8
Publisher
Yellow Cat Pub
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When ex-sheriff and watermelon farmer Bud Shumway and his wife, Wilma Jean, head to Montana to pursue Bud's dream of learning to fly-fish, Bud never guesses he'll soon be deeply involved in trying to solve the mystery of a missing lunch lady he's never met, as well as trying to stay off the radar of a strange religious cult that believes in immortality while plotting to kill people.
Set in the magnificent Absaroka Mountains near Yellowstone National...
Author
Series
Bud Shumway mystery volume 1
Publisher
Yellow Cat Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
246 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
An old hermit has been killed in Utah's wildlands, and Sheriff Bud Shumway knows it's murder, even though some say it was a cougar kill. Others think it was done by a Bigfoot who has roamed the area for years, killing cattle and leaving people so traumatized that they never want to go into the wilderness again. But Sheriff Shumway can't afford to believe in Bigfoot, given the huge area he's responsible for, most of it wildlands.
Author
Series
Bud Shumway mystery volume 5
Publisher
Yellow Cat Pub
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
249 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The self-centered director of a small Shakespearean troupe has been killed on the flanks of a remote Utah bluff, and ex-sheriff Bud Shumway knows it has something to do with someone in the Witness Protection Program, even though his bumbling replacement, Sheriff Howie, suspects a mysterious prospector who has just arrived from the Superstition Mountains. Set at the Silver Spur Cafe in a nearly-abandoned railroad town in southeast Utah, this mystery...
Author
Series
Bud Shumway mystery volume 4
Publisher
Yellow Cat Pub
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
An old rock hound has been killed in Utah’s wild lands, and ex-sheriff Bud Shumway knows it has something to do with black-market dinosaur bone thieves, even though his bumbling replacement, Sheriff Howie, thinks it has something to do with aliens. And after receiving a mysterious envelope containing a weird claw and a set of coordinates written on roll-your-own cigarette paper, Howie is determined to prove himself a capable sheriff, especially...
Author
Series
Bud Shumway mystery volume 6
Publisher
Yellow Cat Pub
Pub. Date
c2015
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When ex-sheriff Bud Shumway and his wife, Wilma Jean, decide to vacation in a scenic Colorado town near Aspen, they never guess they’ll soon be immersed in solving the murder of a famous country-western singer. And even though Bud’s bumbling replacement, Sheriff Howie, is far away in the small town of Green River, Utah, he still manages to play havoc with everyone’s peace of mind when his sheriff’s vehicle is stolen and he finds out he’s...
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