With the hokey cover to this book, I had expected to be disappointed. Instead, I was very pleasantly surprised! This book takes the reader on a rollicking adventure to the old west. This could have been very corny, but the author does a good job making the tale credible. I really enjoyed the humor interspersed throughout the story. Clearly, the author had fun writing this book. Having read a lot of Sherlock Holmes pastiches, I was pleased to find that the author kept true to the characters of both Holmes and Watson, while developing them both a bit more. Unlike one of the other reviews, I did not find the relationship between Holmes and Sarah to be jarring. Rather, I found it credible. Holmes still managed to be rude and superior. He wouldn't be Holmes if he weren't.