Giles A. Lutz

"Colonel Jefferson Karnes rode into Gallatin, Missouri, to find out what was going on between the Gentiles and Mormons there. Feelings were strong on both sides, and his hopes for a peaceful solution are crushed with violence"--

The Grudge, first published in 1963, is a fast-paced murder mystery set in southern California by veteran authors Bert and Dolores Hitchens. From the dustjacket: “Tommy Collins had a corroding, insensate grudge—against his mother and sisters, who had turned him over to the police—against the railroad which had fired him from his job. And now, having killed three people in his explosive escape from State Prison Hospital, he was at large, wreaking vengeance in his characteristically deadly way. It was already too late to save one member of the family, and Special Agent Farrel, of the Los Angeles Railroad Police, had to halt Tommy’s rampage of death and destruction before it claimed another victim ... For Tommy was playing for keeps—with dynamite.”

In simple language, Big Sam and Little Sam are frightened by an echo while hiking in the mountains.