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Author_James Norman
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Chiang Kai Shek
China
cowboy
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Golden Age
guerrilla
Harrow
Japanese
missionary
Mountain of Virtue
murder mystery
Quinto
war
Product details
- ISBN 9781631943447
- Dimensions: 139 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 05 Feb 2026
- Publisher: Felony & Mayhem
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The series debut of Gimiendo Hernandez Quinto, the Hercule Poirot of Mexico...and China! Fans of Golden Age mystery and exotic locales will love this long-out-of-print yarn set in 1930s China, during the war with Japan. At its center is Gimiendo Hernandez Quinto, who once rode with Pancho Villa but now trains fighters for Chiang Kai-shek...and solves the odd murder on the side. At his side is the dangerously beautiful Mountain of Virtue (don't play poker with her), and rounding out the list is a collection of international characters: a hard-drinking English journalist, an American cowboy as handy with a six-shooter as he is inept at romance, a young Chinese soldier weighed down with worries for his country and the Brooklyn Dodgers, and a host of others. Any of them could have killed Harrow, an ambulance driver who appears to have died three different times.
Chicago native James Norman Schmidt worked as a journalist before joining the International Brigades to fight the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War. He went on to cover the US army during WWII (winning a Bronze Star for his extracurricular work ferrying supplies to Philippine guerrillas in the jungle) and was working, after the war, as a successful Hollywood scriptwriter when he was blacklisted. He moved to Mexico and taught there for many years, before moving to Athens, OH, to take a position on the faculty of Ohio University. He died in Athens, in 1983, having written more than a dozen books, both novels and non-fiction, as well as the trilogy of murder mysteries featuring Gimiendo Hernandez Quinto.
