Tom Mix Western #35

Tom Mix investigates a pair of poisonings at the Dobie Bank that leave the bank president and a guard dead—and all evidence points to innocent pie baker Mrs. Duffy, whose desserts were used as the murder weapon. With an honest woman facing arrest for crimes she didn't commit, Tom must uncover who really poisoned the pies and orchestrated the vault robbery in "The Feast of Death!"

Tumbleweed Jr. receives a gift that sends him into a panic—his uncle has brought him a boxer dog, and the young fellow's convinced he needs to learn to fight before the pooch arrives. What follows is a hilariously misguided training montage where rope-skipping, shadow boxing, and an unfortunate encounter with a beehive leave him bruised and battered, teaching him lessons the hard way. By the time his uncle finally shows up, Tumbleweed's convinced he's ready for anything—but Uncle has a surprise up his sleeve.

Cowboy Cal's got a laugh-filled scheme to promote his rodeo contest: he's rigging the grand prize as a practical joke—a vase of water presented as a fancy "trinket" to the winner. When the hapless Silly Sims learns what the prize actually is, the gag sets the whole town buzzing with curiosity about what'll happen when someone claims their unusual reward.

When a wounded fugitive named Ferret is discovered in the hills near Dobie, a vengeful mob led by Sagerat moves to lynch him—but Tom Mix won't stand for vigilante justice. After Mix thwarts their first attempt and locks Ferret in the jailhouse, Sagerat devises a cunning trap: he sabotages Mix's guns with blanks and lures him away from his ranch, hoping to seize the prisoner while the straight shooter is powerless to stop them. Mix races against time to reach Hollow Creek before Sagerat can carry out the hanging.

Tom Mix investigates when a desperate man summons him to a gambling casino with a plea for help, only to discover the man dead—and the body vanished. With a killer on the loose and a crooked gambler denying everything, Mix must untangle a web of murder-for-hire and betrayal to bring the guilty to justice in "Tom Mix and the Unfinished Duel."

Contented Claramay gets a visit from snooty Mrs. Finley, who's heading to the mountains for the summer—but Claramay's got a surprise answer about where *she* finds her own refreshment without leaving home. It's a quick, punchy Western humor bit that proves sometimes the best getaway is right under your nose.

Tom Mix springs into action when a runaway stagecoach tears through the foothills, only to discover the notorious Stagecoach Kid—thought to be safely behind bars—has escaped and resumed his reign of robberies. As the bandit strikes again and again with cunning precision, Tom devises a trap using a decoy stage, but the Kid proves too clever and vanishes into the countryside, forcing Tom to comb the hills for any sign of a hideout. When a chance discovery at an abandoned prospector's cabin hints at something amiss, Tom realizes the answer to catching his quarry may lie in the smallest details.