McManus will teach you the wisdom that is usually shared only in the close ranks of modern-day hunters and gatherers. Whether he's poking fun at fly fishing or taking on some other sportsman's icon, he is sure to have you laughing out loud.

Offers a collection of humorous stories on such topics as hunting, fishing, and horseback riding.

McManus, who makes us laugh at our weaknesses, can take an innocent object such as a decrepit old canoe and show us an entirely new and funny way of looking at such things.

Any alert reader will remember the stir Patrick McManus created with his close examination of metaphysics a few years back. Always the deep thinker, Pat concerns himself this time with situational ethics. Here's an example: While mountain climbing, your partner falls and is left hanging by a rope - the one you control. You can either save him or save yourself. Now here's the tricky part: How do you distract your partner as you prepare to cut the rope?...

"Bo Tully, sheriff of Blight County, Idaho, has dealt with small-town crime throughout his long, storied career. Now, contemplating retirement after years on the job, Tully is faced with perhaps his most perplexing case yet. When area bald eagles start getting picked off by a ghost-like killer, and when a prominent local rancher is murdered by an arrow with eagle fletching, things gets complicated fast. In this fast-paced whodunit, Tully has a vast...

After Sheriff Bo Tully witnesses a murder while pursuing a bank robber, he is thrust into an investigation that will test his crime-solving skills.

While leading a would-be killer into the open, Sheriff Bo Tully also pursues a seventy-five-year-old missing persons case in which a pair of gold miners (a two-man drilling team known as a double-jack) mysteriously disappeared just as they hit the mother lode in a remote part of Blight County.

"For his fourteenth book, Patrick McManus lets us inside the laughs. This guide, by one of the world's best-known and respected humorists, is an insightful and entertaining book for anyone who writes humor or has ever wanted to."--BOOK JACKET

Bo Tully, sheriff of Blight County, Idaho - and a fellow who dropped twenty pounds on Atkins - had been thinking about asking out Jan Whittle, his grade-school sweetheart. Problem is, he's already promised to celebrate his dad's seventy-fifth birthday with him. Thwarted romance proves to be the least of Bo's problems, however, when a dead boy turns up on Batim Scragg's ranch. The baffling thing is that neither Batim nor his two wayward sons appear...