Deputy Sheriff Matt Cameron was worried as he rode back to town after unsuccessfully hunting rustlers. Lawlessness was on the increase, and Matt had heard that his brother Buck was riding with Eli Kimber's gang. He had warned Buck off years earlier and his brother had dropped out of sight. Now it seemed Buck was back on the crooked trail. Matt also had a showdown looming in the shape of Hulk Grayson, the bullying town slaughterman. Trouble piled up...

Despite his innocence, Taw Landry served five years in prison for robbery. Freed at last, his troubles seemed over, but when he reached the home range, they were just beginning. He was determined to discover who'd stolen twenty thousand dollars from the stage office in Cottonwood. But Taw's resolution was overtaken by events. Murder was committed and rustling was rife as Taw tried to unravel the five-year-old mystery. As the guns began to blaze -...

Deputy Sheriff Lew Kennett is up against it: the Hap Ivy gang are on the prowl, rustlers are at work, and a thief has been busy in town. When Kennett sets out to capture an outlaw, the situation gets wildly out of hand; and whilst surviving an ambush and preventing a lynching, he is caught up in another facet of local crime and has to kill a townsman. In Black Horse Creek, the sheriff's life is always on the line, and he is determined to beat the...

Army investigator Captain Slade Moran is hunting the killer of an officer when he rides into Grey Ridge, having lost the trail of the fugitive. Fresh orders await him at Fort Grant, where he finds a hornets' nest of trouble. There has been a spate of inexplicable desertions, trouble between the troopers and townspeople, and a young lieutenant has been court-martialled and cashiered for embezzlement - though his commanding officer doubts his guilt....

Deputy US Marshal Cal Burnett rides into Pike's Peak, Kansas, after an absence of ten years, expecting to find the town as he had left it. Any hopes of this are quickly destroyed, though. Strange and disturbing rumours reach him: his brother, Lance, has disappeared, and people say he robbed the local bank before skipping town. Cal begins to investigate, but it's when he meets the local law - Sheriff Snark and his deputy Rufus Hoyle - that his troubles...