Western Crime Cases #9

A Texas cowboy named Dick Lloyd rolls into a small frontier town looking for a place to lay low, and quickly makes enemies when his card-playing skills—and trigger finger—prove too sharp for the locals. When an old rival named Mann challenges him over cheating at the tables, Lloyd's drinking and gunplay spiral into a violent rampage that turns the entire township against him. What began as a stranger seeking refuge becomes a brutal reckoning nobody saw coming.

White Rider shakes off his sickbed rest when gunfire erupts in Indian Valley, leading him to discover rancher Jeff Miller shot and his herd stolen by rustlers led by the cunning Blackie Sands. With Superhorse's help, the White Rider devises a bold scheme to lure the thieves into a trap and reclaim the stolen horses. What begins as a daring plan unfolds across Indian terrain in a race against time and bullets.

Bill and his companion Pancho arrive in the Colombian town of Popayan during their journey south, only to stumble upon a daring theft involving the legendary Crown of the Incas—a five-million-dollar treasure guarded by a local family. When the notorious bandit known as Whistling Utah attempts to steal the crown, Bill recognizes the criminal and takes action to protect the sacred jewels and bring the thief to justice.

Jessie Conway, the cunning gambler known throughout the West as Jackpot Jessie, flees a posse after a rigged card game goes sideways in a frontier town, only to resurface in the wide-open gambling halls of Loon City where she quickly ingratiates herself with the local power brokers. When a string of mysterious murders begins plaguing the town's mine operators, a lawman devises a dangerous plan to smoke out the culprit—using Jessie herself as bait. In this high-stakes western crime tale, deception and gunplay collide as the truth behind the killings threatens to expose secrets that powerful people would kill to keep hidden.