{"id":22041,"date":"2026-04-08T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=22041"},"modified":"2026-02-16T18:24:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:24:46","slug":"terrance-layhews-mitch-mayhew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2026\/04\/08\/terrance-layhews-mitch-mayhew\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrance Layhew’s Mitch Mayhew"},"content":{"rendered":"

I previously read and reviewed Terrance Layhew<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s first novel, One Man\u2019s Treasure<\/a><\/em>, which I enjoyed. Now he has a new series with pilot Mitch Mayhew<\/a><\/strong> coming from Veritas Entertainment<\/a>, which is putting out works by several authors under the heading of \u201cmen\u2019s adventure fiction.\u201d I\u2019ve seen several of these on Amazon, but have yet to check them out.<\/p>\n

\"Diamonds<\/a>Layhew has put out the first two Mitch Mayhew stories. Full disclosure, I was sent copies of both of them.<\/p>\n

Each volume is small, about 4- by 7-inches in size, the smallest print-on-demand works I\u2019ve seen. They are 80 and 100 pages in length, so these are not novels. I’m not sure if they would qualify as short stories or novelettes. They should be read in order, as they are directly linked.<\/p>\n

We start off with \u201cUnwanted Passenger.\u201d The story is set after World War I. Our hero, Mitch Mayhew, is an airmail pilot based in Chicago. He flies a DH-4 Liberty he named Circe<\/em>, and it\u2019s clear he is a former WWI pilot.<\/p>\n

His main route takes him from Chicago to Omaha to Denver and back. But this time, there are a couple of changes. One is when a group of Chicago policemen gives him important evidence against the Meadows Gang that needs to get to Denver. The other is an unexpected passenger, Kathleen Dumont, who is going to Denver. Why she is flying versus taking a train is unknown. Should be easy, yes? But then we wouldn\u2019t have much of a story.<\/p>\n

When they start to leave from Omaha, a group of men shows up and tries to shoot them down. Then, when they get to Denver, someone attacks them flying a Fokker and shoots them down. Is it the Meadows Gang or someone else? Will Mitch be able to get the evidence to the police and figure out what is going on? Will he learn more about Kathleen and why she is flying, and is she possibly the cause of what is going on?<\/p>\n

The next work, \u201cDiamonds in Denver,\u201d follows directly from the first one. Here we find our main characters in Denver, trying to sell some diamonds before they leave the city. But, of course, there will be complications caused by both a thief and a house detective at their hotel.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll have to see where this story goes as they head further west.<\/p>\n

In addition, there is the third part of a story with Dr. Veritas<\/a><\/strong> at the end of this volume. No author is given. It looks like this is a series that runs in the back of several of the Veritas<\/a> volumes. The first part is apparently in \u201cIn the Heart of Alexandria,\u201d and the fourth part is in \u201cNoah Redford.\u201d I have no idea about the second part or how long this will run.<\/p>\n

Overall, the Mitch Mayhew stories were pretty good. I\u2019m interested to see where this is going. I am also taking a look at some of the other works from Veritas to see if any look worth checking out as well. There should be some good stuff here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I previously read and reviewed Terrance Layhew\u2019s first novel, One Man\u2019s Treasure, which I enjoyed. Now he has a new series with pilot Mitch Mayhew coming from Veritas Entertainment, which is putting out works by several authors under the heading of \u201cmen\u2019s adventure fiction.\u201d I\u2019ve seen several of these on Amazon, but have yet to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":22315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Pulp Super-Fan looks at two of Terrance Layhew's Mitch Mayhew adventures.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[2535,2507,2020,2508],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-22041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-pulp","category-review","tag-dr-veritas","tag-mitch-mayhew","tag-terrance-layhew","tag-veritas-entertainment"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2026\/12\/diamonds-in-denver-featured.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3eLo8-5Jv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22041"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22322,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22041\/revisions\/22322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22041"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=22041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}