BRUCE CLARK

Lon Pike hauls the body of a murdered deputy into town, only to face up to a gun-wielding drunk out to shoot Marshal Everson. Council chairman Orville Tuft, whose bank has been robbed, wants to make Lon marshal instead of Everson, and Lon, inveigled by Tuft 's pretty daughter Zinnia, agrees. However, on sober reflection, he decides it's smarter to take the deputy job instead. But Everson looks more and more likely to be in cahoots with the robbers—and he may have sent the previous deputy to his death when he learned too much.

Blake Dixon raped and killed Clint Evan's wife. Clint's whole life is now about making Dixon pay. Felipe Gonzalez becomes his best lead to Dixon's whereabouts; but after Felipe's family is killed and he starts relishing his own revenge against the one man who may actually know where Dixon is, Clint is repelled by Felipe 's grisly plans and has to decide whether or not to help Felipe get his revenge in order to have a chance at his own.

Buck Maxwell buys a hardware store with his life savings and finds he also owns a $9830 debt to a church building committee, money which had been in the care of the previous owner, and been stolen by Snake Ed McFee. Buck was ramrod of a spread in Bighorn country until the big die-up finished off the outfit , and he is used to dealing with problems the direct way. But now it's town rules, and the more he tries to go by them, the more things go wrong—and people die. In the end Buck lines up a row of coffins in front of his store and starts filling them.

FOUR FULL-LENGTH WESTERN NOVELS BY COLT .44 AWARD WINNER E. R. SLADE. ONE TERRIFIC PRICE!