Western Crime Busters #4

Sheriff Bob Dale keeps the peace across Canyon County, but when he rides into Rocky Bend, he finds the town gripped by a crooked boss named Mitch Tabor—and an honest young lawyer named Walt Daniels determined to challenge him in the upcoming mayoral election. As Tabor's gang works to intimidate the reformer and the tension boils over into a public confrontation, Sheriff Dale must navigate his duty to maintain order while Walt faces a dangerous choice about how far he'll go to earn the respect of townspeople bound by their own code of honor.

Katherine Slocum, a rancher's daughter studying dramatic art in New York, returns home to find her father injured in a suspicious bridge collapse—and discovers that a mysterious stranger from the city may be connected to a scheme to force the sale of the family ranch. With help from Deputy Don Howell, Kate pieces together clues that lead her to uncover a criminal plot involving sabotage, stolen ore samples, and a fugitive hiding in plain sight. In seven days, she transforms from an aspiring actress back into a rancher fighting to save the K-Bar.

When Six-Gun Smith wanders into the Saddleback Saloon looking for a quiet game of faro, he finds himself caught between a sharp-dealing woman and a conspiracy that runs deeper than cards—Peg Garnett, a U.S. Special Agent working undercover, recruits the drifting cowboy to help her track the leader of the notorious Blue Gang. As Smith and Peg work together to expose the outlaw operation, they'll need quick guns and quicker thinking to survive what Martin Colby has in store.

When a ruthless outlaw gang turns Owlhoot Valley into their fortress, rancher Wilma West refuses to sit idle—she joins the sheriff's posse despite his objections, determined to protect her spread. But the bandits, led by the brutal Blackie Dolan, ambush the lawmen and capture Wilma and old Sonora Sam, forcing them into a desperate fight for survival. With ingenuity and grit, they'll need to outwit their captors to escape and bring the gang to justice.