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1) The hider
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In 1898, Jeff Curry finds more trouble than he anticipated when he accompanies an old scout and buffalo hunter on a search for one of the last buffaloes.
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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.
6) Gun man
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An accidental death drives John Miller, a paid killer, west to join a gang of train and bank robbers and, in succession, he becomes a lawman, highwayman, and assassin.
7) Wild justice
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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...
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Between July 1875 and November 1883, a single outlaw robbed the stagecoaches of Wells Fargo in California's Mother Lode country a record of twenty-eight times. Armed with an unloaded shotgun, walking to and from the scenes of the robberies, often for hundreds of miles, and leaving poems behind, the infamous Black Bart was fiercely hunted. Between robberies, Black Bart was known as Charles E. Bolton, a distinguished, middle-aged man who enjoyed San...
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Johnny Vermillion's Theater Troupe brings masterpieces to the Wild West. The four actors are versatile enough to wear many costumes and play many roles. Johnny also arranges a special attraction in each town. While his actors bustle on and off the stage in many roles, one plays the villain in the bank. Then the troop takes its curtain calls and makes its escape aboard a train.
10) Murdock's law
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Page Murdock novels volume 3
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Murdock's Law was enforced the only way Page Murdock knew how-with a gun. Special U.S. Deputy Murdock thought he was just passing through Breen, Montana, in pursuit of outlaw Chris Shedwell. Before he could move on, they had given him a new title:Marshall of Breen, and Murdock was plunged into the midst of a range war.Big and small ranchers were fighting it out with hired guns, and they expected their new Marshall to be one of them. Then there was...
12) City of widows
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Page Murdock has been sent to the tough New Mexico of 1881 to track down a man and bring him to justice. But more than a trail of revenge, Murdock finds himself on a desperate odyssey. For in the Southwest a friend can turn out to be one's cruelest enemy, an enemy one's finest friend. And the woman Murdock loves will be as voluptuous as Venus and wicked as sin.
City of Widows shows western author Loren D. Estleman at the top of his game.
At the...
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"Oscar Stone is a hangman. Ordinary people do not understand Oscar Stone or his motives. Everything he does, he does impeccably. He is more bloodless than bloodthirsty. He is a profound student of his art, completely versed in its traditions over the centuries. He is a student of ropes and their properties, a master of the latest scientific knowledge about the human neck, a careful calculator of weights and drops, and an exacting observer of results."...
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"Locked in a deadly feud, cowboys Randy Locke and Frank Farmer have spent decades attempting to annihilate each other any time they are within shooting distance. So far, the men are even. One of Frank's bullets has given Randy a permanent limp. Vain Frank wears a prosthetic ear, his own lost to Randy's assault. If either of them remembers the original reason for the feud, it seems moot now. Their quest for revenge has led them on a merry chase through...
15) White desert
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"Cynical U.S. Marshal Page Murdock pursues a vicious gang into the far north of Canada during winter."--from NoveList.
16) Stamping ground
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"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."--from NoveList.
17) Cape Hell
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"Ordered to investigate suspicions that a former Confederate captain is raising an army to take over Mexico City and rekindle the U.S. Civil War, Page Murdock embarks on a perilous mission in the desert with two secretive companions."--from NoveList.
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Master undertaker Richard Connable is called out of retirement by a group of powerful men who want him to disguise the evidence that a major financier has committed suicide, prompting his wife to look back over their sometimes troubled marriage, recalling the places they lived and the people they met in pursuit of Richard's profession.
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