Max Brand

In "The Law Dodger of Windy Creek" (first published in 1932), Sam Leader, wrongly imprisoned for murder, escapes to confront the man who could prove him innocent. "Trail of the Eagle" (1933) is the tense tale of Barney Dwyer, who helps Len Peary escape from jail only to become a wanted man and the target of Peary's gang. In the title story (1932), Speedy is a young loner who outwits even the deadliest man without the use of a gun. But he cannot resist...

"John Sherburn, a troublemaking gunfighter rides into Amityville, Texas, where Peter Gresham, the most successful businessman in town, asks Sherburn to oversee his business interests while Gresham devotes his time to finding and killing Red Hawk, the renegade chief that killed his brother, forming a partnership that puts them both in danger"--

Ortiza Tarabal is the most beautiful ingenue in Alta, California, and her father is its wealthiest landowner. He has sent to Spain for a suitable bridegroom for his daughter, and in response Francisco Valdez has arrived in the Bay of Monterey on the Fortune. But he is not alone. Also on board is Louis Mortier, a former colonel in Napoleon's Grand Army, who has come to Monterey to acquire land from a former French Revolutionist. Once these two men...

In "Speedy's Desert Dance" a young drifter runs into trouble after overhearing two outlaws plan a murder and kidnapping. A gripping story set during the War Between the States. "A Watch in the Wilderness" finds Marse Roberts' company in a trench as a sharpshooter in a tree above starts to shoot them, one by one. "The Good Badman" is Ed Garver, known in the ring as Kid Denver. It was hard luck that finished his fighting career, and that hard luck seems...