Joshua Deets is a fictional charachter from a novel published in which year ?
1985
Bose Ikard
Bose Ikard (ca. 1840s–1929) was an African American cowboy who participated in the pioneering cattle drives on what became known as the Goodnight–Loving Trail, after the American Civil War and through 1869.
 Aspects of his life inspired the fictional character Joshua Deets, the African-American cowboy in Larry McMurtry's novel Lonesome Dove.
Lonesome Dove
Lonesome Dove is a 1985 western novel by Texan author Larry McMurtry.
 It is the first published book of the Lonesome Dove series, but the third installment in the series chronologically.
Ronald Tierney
Ronald Tierney was born December 12, 1944 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
 After years as a writer, newspaper editor and communications director, Tierney began writing mysteries in the late 1980s.
 "The Stone Veil" introduced semi-retired, Indianapolis-based private investigator Deets Shanahan.
 The book was a finalist in St. Martin's Press "Best First Private Eye Novel" competition.
 It was also nominated for the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award for "Best First Novel."
 Tierney lives in San Francisco.
 He is a member of the Authors Guild, Mystery Writers of America, and the Private Eye Writers of America.
 Tierney's novels have been published by the UK's Severn House, St. Martin's Press and Dutton (Penguin Group). Soldiers' Pay
Soldiers' Pay is the first novel published by the American author William Faulkner.
 It was originally published by Boni & Liveright on February 25, 1926.
 It is unclear if Soldiers' Pay is the first novel written by Faulkner.
 It is however the first novel published by the author.
 Faulkner was working on two manuscripts while finishing Soldiers' Pay. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (novel)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
 A Novel is a 1979 novelization of the film "", which was released in the same year.
 It is especially notable for being the only "Star Trek" novel to be written by Gene Roddenberry, who created the franchise.
 It was also the first "Star Trek" novel published by Pocket Books, beginning a prolific relationship with the franchise that continues as of 2012.
 At the time the book was published, however, Bantam Books held the rights to publish original Star Trek-based fiction; Pocket Books wouldn't publish its first original Trek novel until 1981. Valentine (novel)
Valentine (1832) was a novel published by French author George Sand.
 This was the second novel published in Sand's career as an independent author, the novel is notable for displaying many of Sand's preoccupations as an emerging novelist: love, social class, greed, liberty, and family ties.
 Like many of Sand's novels, the novel takes its name from its title character Valentine, who is born into an aristocratic family but falls in love with the peasant farmer, Benedict.
 Star-crossed lovers belonging to different social classes were to become a major theme in Sand's works, which interrogated what the author perceived as the hypocrisy and rigidity of social norms in the Restoration-period French republic. Colonel Sun
Colonel Sun is a novel by Kingsley Amis published by Jonathan Cape on 28 March 1968 under the pseudonym "Robert Markham".
 "Colonel Sun" is the first James Bond continuation novel published after Ian Fleming's 1964 death.
 Before writing the novel, Amis wrote two other Bond related works, the literary study "The James Bond Dossier" and the humorous "The Book of Bond".
 "Colonel Sun" centres on the fictional British Secret Service operative James Bond and his mission to track down the kidnappers of M, his superior at the Secret Service.
 During the mission he discovers a communist Chinese plot to cause an international incident.
 Bond, assisted by a Greek spy working for the Russians, finds M on a small Aegean island, rescues him and kills the two main plotters: Colonel Sun Liang-tan and a former Nazi commander, Von Richter. Sin Pit
Sin Pit is a crime novel by American journalist Paul S. Meskil (Jul 2, 1923–Oct 11, 2005), published by Lion Books in 1954.
 It is one of those rare paperback originals that has achieved cult status through a combination of circumstances, including the fact the author wrote only one work of crime fiction, the initial print run was relatively low for paperbacks at the time, the book had only one print run by the original publisher (Lion Books) and, finally, found an audience years later among collectors of 1950s paperback crime novels.
 Sin Pit shares all the above circumstances with another paperback crime novel published a year earlier, in 1953, that similarly achieved cult status — Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze, published by Fawcett Gold Medal.
 Both authors were respected journalists their entire lives and wrote only a single crime novel that was never republished until years later, only after gaining an audience among aficionados of pulp fiction. The Palm-Wine Drinkard
The Palm-Wine Drinkard (subtitled "and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town") is a novel published in 1952 by the Nigerian author Amos Tutuola.
 The first African novel published in English outside of Africa, this quest tale based on Yoruba folktales is written in a modified Yoruba English or Pidgin English.
 In it, a man follows his brewer into the land of the dead, encountering many spirits and adventures.
 The novel has always been controversial, inspiring both admiration and contempt among Western and Nigerian critics, but has emerged as one of the most important texts in the African literary canon, translated into over a dozen languages. Clotel
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter is an 1853 novel by United States author and playwright William Wells Brown about Clotel and her sister, fictional slave daughters of Thomas Jefferson.
 Brown, who escaped from slavery in 1834 at the age of 20, published the book in London.
 He was staying after a lecture tour to evade possible recapture due to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act.
 Set in the early nineteenth century, it is considered the first novel published by an African American and is set in the United States.
 Three additional versions were published through 1867.