Page Murdock novels

With two sidekicks capable of undermining his mission at the drop of a hat, Deputy Page Murdock must enter the territory of hostile Indians and bring back a rebel Cheyenne leader.

White desert: Page Murdock is a Western cop. He is a U.S. Marshall based in Montana, hot on the trail of a vicious gang heading into the far north of Canada in the dead of winter. Port hazard: Pursued by hired assassins, Page Murdock seeks refuge among in San Francisco's Barbary Coast, where his search for the mysterious individual who wants him dead leads him into Chinatown and into an alliance with an enigmatic vice lord from an alien culture.

Posing as Brother Bernard Sebastian of the Church of Evangelical Truth, Murdock dons a clerical collar to worm his way into the good graces and confidences of the wary residents of Owen, Texas, in order to stop a gang of ruthless bandits who have been terrorizing the Texas panhandle.

In the spring of 1896, after thirty years spent dispensing justice in Montana, Judge Harlan Blackthorne expires, leaving Deputy U.S. Marshal Page Murdock, his most steadfast officer, to escort his remains across the continent by rail. The long journey is interrupted from time to time by station stops for the public to pay its respects, and for various marching bands to serenade the departed with his favorite ballad, "After the Ball." This gives Murdock...