Central Kansas Library System

In this collection of five short novels, each story follows a succinct pulp formula: accurate historical detail, concise and clever plots, subtle suspense, strong male and female characters, powerful macho conflict, chaste romance, and plenty of graphic, bloody gunplay and knife fights. In “Murder Stalks the Fur Trails,” a cheating Wyoming fur trader tries to stop a party of free trappers from going independent, with a double-cross, ambush, and...