The corrupt town of Calder, known as The Devil’s Doorstep, is brutally run by Mayor Monk Malone as his personal domain and as a haven for gamblers, swindlers, rustlers and outlaws…to the horror and dismay of the local newspaper and the town Reverend, who are virtually powerless to stop him. But then a stranger named Borden rides into town, playing all the factions against one another. It’s not clear whose side he’s on…or if he’s only looking out for his own, mysterious interests. All anybody knows is that he’s the fastest gun in the territory and is not afraid to use it.DEVIL’S DOORSTEP By Paul Evan Lehman
The corrupt town of Calder, known as The Devil’s Doorstep, is brutally run by Mayor Monk Malone as his personal domain and as a haven for gamblers, swindlers, rustlers and outlaws…to the horror and dismay of the local newspaper and the town Reverend, who are virtually powerless to stop him. But then a stranger named Borden rides into town, playing all the factions against one another. It’s not clear whose side he’s on…or if he’s only looking out for his own, mysterious interests. All anybody knows is that he’s the fastest gun in the territory and is not afraid to use it.
Ex-Marshal Joe Raiford wants to settle down to a quiet life…and is scouting for the right spot for his ranch…when a wounded man, running from two gunmen, staggers into his camp and embroils him in a conspiracy involving cattle rustlers, a crooked lawyer, blood-thirsty killers, and a string of murders that could spark a range war.
Randall knows that his father, the town banker, didn’t kill himself, even if everybody in Briscoe says otherwise. There’s a killer out there, and there are plenty of likely suspects, including the bank’s greedy vice president and the slick-talking foreman of the Star Ranch. Whoever it is doesn’t want Jim discovering the truth and has hired a gunman to put him in a grave… right beside his father.
A rider swung into the empty main street of Tinaja. A striking picture in black, he dismounted and strode toward the nearest building, a cardboard in his hand. He tacked it to the wall and stood back to stare at his own likeness on a reward poster for the outlaw El Diablo Negro. Cowpoke Perry Wayne and El Diablo were one and the same person. Perry had come to Tinaja to blast out a clever and dangerous crook. The only way he could do it was to use the crippling fear of El Diablo. But Perry had to move fast and carefully…his disguise as the famous outlaw made him bullet-bait for every gun-hawk in the wild west.
Somewhere on a God-forsaken, dusty ranch is a lost billfold containing $60,000… in this western classic, back in print for the first time in 80 years.
Four incredible, rip-roaring western novels, out-of-print for decades, now in one action-packed volume.