Bob Dickey’s latest book begins with the mysterious and gruesome assassination of an elderly woman named Hilda Reynolds Krause in her home in Las Vegas Nevada.  As a murder-for-hire conspiracy, this would be a great story on its own but, the story of this remarkable woman is so much more than a murder mystery. 

Greyhound to Vegas is the incredible story of a little girl named Hilda Stout from Elkins, West Virginia who left the mountains to first settle in Bowling Green, Kentucky to attend Bowling Green Business University where she focused on business. Hilda soon met, married and eventually divorced Charles Reynolds. Strong-willed, resourceful and independent to the core, Hilda eventually opened a restaurant in the new Bowling Green Greyhound bus station which she ran this well known landmark  almost singlehandedly for many years even after she met and married Marvin Krause, her second husband.

Dickey really conveys the social atmosphere of the Bowling Green community in this part of the story.  Eventually the couple left Bowling Green and moved to Florida and then Cuba in the pre-Castro days of Havana as a center for gambling and just about everything else.  Hilda, ever the savvy businesswoman, became a flashy, blonde casino entrepreneur and had many contacts with Castro, as well as movie stars and mobsters in the heady days before the revolution which brought it all to a sudden crashing end.  Hilda and Marvin escaped and migrated to the developing gambling Mecca of Las Vegas where they became involved in Caesar’s Palace with all that eventually entailed. 

Author Robert Dickey, a former Marine and attorney who attended WKU, Centre College and Vanderbilt and practiced law in Kentucky for 40 years is a master story-teller and you’ll find yourself genuinely enchanted by this incredible story of people, power, sex, intrigue, murder and money.

About the author: Jack Montgomery is a librarian, author and associate professor at Western Kentucky University where he handles bookings for musical acts in University Libraries, Java City coffeehouse. Jack has also been a professional musician since 1969 and performs with a celtic quartet called Watersprite. Visit him at MySpace/shadowdancerjack or on Facebook.