Buster Crabbe #11

When Buster Crabbe and Whiskers Wilde arrive at a snake farm to visit their old friend Mr. Jones, they reconnect with his grown niece Jennie—and meet her fiancé Danny Webber and Jones's new business partner, Mr. Jameson (who is secretly the paroled criminal Doctor Butler). That night, Mr. Jones is found dead in the laboratory with a deadly snake loose and puncture wounds on his arm, but Buster's investigation soon uncovers something far more sinister than a simple accident. As the truth about Jones's death begins to surface, Buster must identify the real killer before an innocent man takes the fall.

When Whiskers Wilde takes in a talking buzzard named Bobo—a grateful bird who once saved his life in the desert—he thinks he's found a meal ticket for easy money. But Bobo's got expensive tastes, a stubborn streak, and a talent for disappearing at exactly the wrong moments, turning Whiskers's grand vaudeville scheme into one humiliating disaster after another. It's a rollicking frontier comedy that proves even the most remarkable varmint can outsmart a schemer with big dreams and bigger debts.

In 1872 Arizona Territory, young prospector John Hix teams up with the experienced Mr. Dodson to search for a legendary mountain of gold, guided by Sun Flower, an Indian girl from a nearby village who knows the treacherous desert landscape. As the trio discovers nuggets scattered across the mysterious mountain, strange occurrences—a ghostly figure, eerie howling, and sabotaged supplies—threaten their quest and test their survival in the harsh, waterless wasteland. What began as a hunt for riches becomes a desperate struggle against both the desert and the mountain's dark secrets.

Prospector George J. Norwood strikes gold with young partner Thomas Nearin, only to be shot and left for dead when Nearin decides he doesn't need to share the claim. Though Norwood survives and tracks Nearin to town, the law doesn't believe his story—and he's convicted of murder for a killing that never happened. Twenty years later, a free man but broken by injustice, Norwood finally locates Nearin and discovers the truth can't undo what the law has already done.