Epitaph In Rust - Timothy Powers - 1976 Laser Books Paperback - Frank Kelly Freas Cover Alan Dean Foster In spare and vigorous prose

In spare and vigorous prose they record Europe's first surprise glimpse of the eastern shores of the North American continent and the natives who inhabited them

and a mine cave-in are only a few of the perils Frank and Joe Hardy encounter during their search for the principal members of a notorious gang responsible for a payroll robbery

you'd see a mermaid named Jimmy Malone sittin' on the Kingfisher Stump

the weapons are different

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