Bill Brooks

A Bad Place to Die. When Wyatt Earp and his brothers left Dodge City, they left the job of keeping the peace to young Bat Masterson. But a lawman's badge is little more than a target in this rough, wide-open frontier town where, for every citizen who abides by the law, there are two who want to tear it apart. And nearly every stranger who rides in is offered a handsome fee to put a bullet between a lawman's eyes. Teddy Blue's come for a different...

Jim Glass' long-sought peace is shattered when the ex-soldier and ex-Ranger discovers six of his corralled horses dead, their throats slit. Though he dreads doing so, he'll strap on his weapons and go hunting for the culprit-because someone capable of such a foul, thoughtless killing is capable of anything. The dusty town of Domingo has been targeted by a pair of blood-crazed brothers and their Texas cohorts with robbery, murder and mayhem on their...

Killing the Legend City life is all Teddy Blue has ever known -- until the craven murder of his brother, a Chicago policeman, changes his world overnight. Determined to hunt down the killer, he joins the Pinkerton Detective Agency and buries all thoughts of his old life along with his slaughtered sibling. But the former law student needs experience -- and Teddy's about to get more than he bargained for in the wide-open West, acting as bodyguard to...

Coffin Flats, New Mexico, is a nothing town in the middle of nowhere-which suits Jim Glass just fine. Looking for any job, he's courted by the local brothel owner-because Jim is good with his fists as well as his gun-but instead he is hired by Marshal Chalk Bronson. A hothead named Johnny Waco is threatening to burn Coffin Flats down if his runaway wife's not returned to him-a lady who loved Marshal Bronson until fate and war separated them. Now Glass...

A talented healer forced to become a fugitive for a killing he wasn't responsible for, Jake Horn found sanctuary in the rough Dakota town of Sweet Sorrow -- and in the tin badge that marks him as the local law. Now his discovery of a dead ranch hand is bringing his demons home. As a doctor and a sheriff, Jake's witnessed death in all its dark guises -- and he recognizes a murder when he sees one. But asking too many questions of the wrong people is...

Business lately has been deadly for Ike Kelly. Recent unexpected gunplay has left his agency to a single operative. John Henry Cole is that operative. Kelly has received a letter from former lover Lydia Winslow, who operates an escort service in the new mining camp of Deadwood in Dakota Territory. "Three young women have been murdered since they arrived in camp." It is obviously a dangerous assignment, and Cole is advised that he must take every precaution-as...

"John Henry Cole agrees to escort an old rancher and his two sons to an outlaw stronghold to arrange for the release of the man's kidnapped wife after the Pinkerton sent to deliver her ransom has been found dead with the money gone"--

"When John Henry Cole and his agents set out to capture Sam Starr and his outlaw gang, an informer sends them into an ambush, leaving only Cole and Charley Hood alive, but badly wounded. Soon the Starr gang is making plans to finish off the two survivors"--

"Able Guthrie rides out to rescue his former wife after she is abducted by a bank robber and taken into the Badlands"--

This is a fast paced fiction, in Historical Classic Western Fiction. Marshal One-Eyed Jack Black is urgently called to Apache Pass, Arizona, between Dos Cabezas and the Chiricahua Mountains to turn back a wagon train facing an impending attack. Will the marshal get there in time? Jack's best friend is named U. S. deputy marshal, but things go wrong on the first day, and a serious crime is committed. Will the new deputy solve the mystery without the...