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The Jewels of Ling Ti – Various buyers of antiques in China, agents for collectors and dealers, compete with each other to acquire priceless objects. While some are honorable men some are decidedly not.

The Gun Hawk rides the trail of vengeance, as Cowskin was being bled to the bone by the bloody reign of terror of The Devil’s Disciples, a gang of self-installed vigilantes. Ranches were stolen, herds ravaged and men lynched wholesale by this unholy crowd.

The Dragoman’s Tales – In these seven stories, Hamed the Dragoman will take tourists who come to his city, to the coffee shop of Silat where he tells tales of his life, his loves, his intrigues and his battles.

Death Stalks the Night – Shudderry thrills aplenty as the Acid Murderer roams the city, leaving death in his trail.

The Curse of Phari – The looting of the treasure of a mummified ruler of a long dead Egypt, brought strange and dramatic adventures to a certain young man and others in modern London.

The Petals of Lao-Tze – The eighth “petal”, is the final piece needed to recreate the complete golden talisman that is said to have given Lao-Tze long life, perhaps even immortality. Retrieving it from a dead man deep in the Himalayas is the easy part. Bringing it back to a wealthy benefactor is another story.

Texicans – Two novelettes of what men will go through to protect who and what they love. Men who don’t want to be kings but want to be free to live their lives as honest men.

Bet On Murder – Three stories of kidnapping, murder, frame-ups, greed and espionage on the World War II home front.

Guns Of The North Wind – Folks are being evicted. Those who stay are being killed. There’s a range war happening in the Big Hills Valley between the Cattlemen and the Sheepmen but nobody knows who started it or why. Only that there are massacres happening to both sides. Wayne Morgan, the Masked Rider and his pard, Blue Hawk ride into hell in the middle of a blizzard.

Skeeter Bill is a horse-thief. An honest one, but a horse-thief, nonetheless. He and his pardner, an old, washed up, drunken Judge, somehow manage to clean up a mining town run by outlaws.

Bonanza: A Story of the Gold Trail – The story of the gold and silver rushes in Nevada are told through the characters of two pairs of brothers and a pair of sisters. Honor and greed are the backdrops for love and murder in this novel of the West.

Spurs – Four Western stories by Walker A. Tompkins. In the Middle Ages, a knight who had “won his spurs” had attained knighthood by performing an act of bravery.