Western Crime Busters #5

When K-Bar Kate's father recovers from a shooting, she becomes a key witness in the murder trial of 3-Finger Jake—until a mysterious new lawyer springs the killer from jail by switching places with him. Now Kate and Deputy Don must race to stop a coordinated payroll heist that threatens to leave the express agent and the lawman himself dead, all before the northbound train pulls into the station.

Wilma West returns home to her ranch after learning her foreman has been shot, only to discover that her neighbor Barlow—who's been pressuring her to sell—may be behind the murder and a conspiracy to seize her land. When Wilma uncovers the real reason Barlow wants the W-W spread, she finds herself kidnapped and forced to sign over the deed, but help arrives just in time for a desperate showdown.

When a stagecoach carrying stolen bank money is ambushed by a posse, one robber slips away—only to track down the money he'd hidden in the new schoolteacher's bag. Sheriff Bob Dale must stop the desperate criminal before he terrorizes the young woman who's just arrived in Gila Gulch to build a life among its townspeople. This tale of "Trail of Loot" shows how quick thinking and a little ingenuity can turn the tables on a dangerous fugitive.