Clay Nash 23: Wild Ride From Spanish Springs (A Clay Nash Western)

When is a stage hold-up not a stage hold-up?
It was a question Wells Fargo’s top detective, Clay Nash, had to wrestle with.
The only answer he could come up with was that the hold-up was just cover for something else. But what? The murder of a, inoffensive little Mexican carrying a bag full of documents?
As unlikely as it sounded, it was the only thing that made sense. But to confirm his suspicion, Clay had to track down the robbers … and that was easier said than done.
He thought they might have signed on with a trail crew pushing a herd of cattle to the town of Freedom. So Clay went undercover and joined the drive.
Now all he had to do was identify the outlaws … and discover why the little Mexican had to die!

Keith Hetherington
aka Kirk Hamilton, Brett Waring and Hank J. Kirby

Australian writer Keith has worked as television scriptwriter on such Australian TV shows as Homicide, Matlock Police, Division 4, Solo One, The Box, The Spoiler and Chopper Squad.
“I always liked writing little vignettes, trying to describe the action sequences I saw in a film or the Saturday Afternoon Serial at local cinemas,” remembers Keith Hetherington, better-known to Piccadilly Publishing readers as Hank J. Kirby, author of the Bronco Madigan series.
Keith went on to pen hundreds of westerns (the figure varies between 600 and 1000) under the names Kirk Hamilton (including the legendary Bannerman the Enforcer series) and Clay Nash as Brett Waring. Keith also worked as a journalist for the Queensland Health Education Council, writing weekly articles for newspapers on health subjects and radio plays dramatizing same.