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Black Silk Handkerchief: A Hom-Astubby Mystery

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The Black Silk Scarf is well written mystery with a great

Native American prospective. Hom-Astubby, the hero, has a great

ruminating style of figuring out his life and the situations

he gets himself into. It is exciting to read such a interesting

plot as told in a truly original voice. Hom-Astubby gives a

nice view of Choctaw's take on not only a well thought out

mystery, but on his ways of dealing with and views of the anglo

society. I cannot wait to read the second in the series,

which I hope is followed by many more by this knowledgeable author.

Black Silk Handkerchief: A Hom-astubby Mystery

Riveting. I could not put it down. The suspense, the character development, the extremely hate inspiring villains are all part of what makes this the best book I have read in ages. I cannot wait for another in this series.

Parts of it (setting, plot) were well done. but the characters were cheap Marvel Comics cutouts. The best character is the protagonist, penniless millionaire Indian lawyer-photographer-forensics expert Hom-Astubby. The adjectives in front of his name should give you an idea why this book's fictitious folk are so preposterous and irritating. And, O yes,he drives around in a two-mpg custom-made million-dollar pimp-RV. His paleface lover, Avalanche O'Neill, is an unspeakably sexy, precocious, and utterly brilliant Olympic athlete-journalist-lawyer-scholar-dog breeder.

Give me a break. I doubt I need to mention any more of the gross absurdity plaguing this adolescent male fantasy. Perhaps all this hyperbolic rubbish is supposed to be funny. It isn't. This book was a real disappointment.

Just finished "Black Silk Handkerchief". Wow! What a great book.

An excellent story line with lots of little interesting tid bits that kept me glued to the pages.

The lead charactors are very like-able.

The author really knows how to turn up the heat as the book picks up speed to the point where any interuptions or distractions in my reading became very irriating.

I highly recommend this book and can't wait for volume two in the series.

Please believe me when I say that every book this author writes gets better and better, to the point where he has truly become one of my favorite authors.

This is not easy for me to say because D.L. Birchfield is my older brother and older brothers can be a little overbearing and intolerant at times. I have to say though that as older brothers go, he's not so bad.

You don't have to take my word for it if you think I might be prejudiced toward the book just because we're related.

He won the Western Writers of America "Spur Award" for his previous novel "Field of Honor", which is a funny, engrossing book in itself.

If you like a good read then get "Black Silk Handkerchief".

I think you'll like it.