The Page 123 meme

I see Linda L. Richards, author of Death Was the Other Woman, has pulled me into the Page 123 meme-thread.

The skinny:

1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.

The nearest book: Steve Hockensmith's Holmes on the Range.

Sentences 6-7-8:

["]You'd be better off shootin' the son of a gun"

Blackwell turned and gave my brother a bashful grin. The young Englishman had picked up a touch of color in his travels in the West, but he didn't show it now.

(The POV is Otto "Big Red" Amlingmeyer's.)

I'm tagging--

• Steve Hockensmith
• Katherine Howell (whose new novel, The Darkest Hour, is right next to Steve's)
• writer and lit-blogger Pete Anderson
• sci-fi writer Karen Miller
• John A. Adam, author and professor of mathematics

--all of whom have contributed entries to CftAR blogs.

Pass it on.

--Marshal Zeringue