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TROUBLE RIDES TALL Bryant Shafter is the trouble marshal. Town leaders call him in when they need a gun to quiet things down. Which is why Bry settled in Pony Wells. But now the town is under control. They don t need him anymore more particularly, they don t need to be paying his salary. Even his young deputy, Zach Adams, thinks it s time he moved on. So when three businessmen from Gravehead make him an offer to leave Pony Wells to clean up their town, he s sorely tempted holding down the law is what Bry does best. Until a young prostitute named Glory is found murdered. Until the town bosses hire their own guns. Until a young buck named Rio, out to prove himself, comes gunning for him. Now Bry s got a townful of trouble. CROSS THE RED CREEK Jim Gilmore is on the run from the rumors that plague him.
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He also wrote under the names , and , Curt Colman, , Suzanne Stephens, , Harry White, , Henri Whittier, Harry Whittington (February 4, 1915-June 11, 1989) was an American mystery novelist and one of the original founders of the paperback novel. Born in Ocala, Florida, he worked in government jobs before becoming a writer. His reputation as a prolific writer of pulp fiction novels is supported by his writing of 85 novels in a span of twelve years (as many as seven in a single month) mostly in the crime, suspense, and noir fiction genres. In total, he published over 200 novels. Seven of his writings were produced for the screen, including the television series Lawman. His reputation for being known as 'The King of the Pulps' is shared with author H. Bedford-Jones. Only a handful of Whittington's novels are in print today.
