Ride the Pink Horse
Cover Artist: not identifiedBy: Hughes, Dorothy B.
Publisher: Dell Publishing Co., Inc. (D225)
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Catalog #: Kelley Box 275: PS3515 .U268 R53 1958
Contributor: D. Bogenschutz, S. Hoffman
General
Era: 1940sAuthor as on Cover: Dorothy B. Hughes
Publication:1958
Original Date: 1946
Setting: small town during Fiesta Week, a time of celebration; large Mexican-American population
Plot Summary
Sailor, a man on a mission, arrives in the small dusty town of Santa Fe on the bus from Chicago just as Fiesta Week gets underway. Amid the crowds who have come to the town to celebrate, Sailor searches for his former employer, Senator Willis Douglass, "the Sen", because there is still an outstanding debt owed to Sailor from the time he served on the Sen's staff. Sailor wants the money and he has a plan to get it. The Sen had killed his wife and Sailor was an eyewitness. But a detective named McIntyre is also in town to get the Sen for the murder of his wife. Will Sailor get the money he needs from the Sen so that he can disappear into Mexico or will he tell McIntyre what he knows about the murder of the Sen's wife?Major Characters
McIntyre adult male, tall, thin, horse-faced police detectiveSailor adult male, former Senator's aide
Senator Willis Douglass "Sen," adult male, weasel-faced, long snout, sleepy-looking eyes, thin brown hair receding from the forehead, senator
Don Jose Patricio Santiago Morales y Cortez "Pancho Villa", adult male, Mexican-American, fat, dirty, merry-go-round operator at Fiesta
Eleanor Douglass adult female (unmet character), moneyed background, considerably older than her husband
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