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The indestructible Larry and Stretch were plunged into a maelstrom of mystery, mayhem and mirth, when they rode out of Nebraska to hunt the elusive Kell Wade.
What kind of man was Wade? Was he saint or sinner, gentleman or gunman, law-abiding citizen or dangerous desperado?
Wherever they turned, the Texans came up against the enigma of the fugitive's double personality.
Here is a new challenge for the quick-witted Larry Valentine, a new reason for the hard-fisted Stretch Emerson to risk life and limb in a trigger-fast conflict with five desperate men who all shared the same guilty secret.
Leonard Frank Meares (February 13, 1921 - February 4, 1993)
Sydney born Len Meares aka Marshall Grover, published around 750 novels, mostly westerns. His best-known works feature Texas trouble-shooters Larry and Stretch. Before starting to write, Meares served in the Royal Australian Air Force, worked in the Department of Immigration and sold shoes. In the mid-1950s he bought a typewriter to write radio and film scripts. Inspired by the success of local paperback westerns, he wrote Trouble Town, which was published by the Cleveland Publishing Company in 1955.
His tenth yarn, Drift! (1956), introduced Larry Valentine and Stretch Emerson. In 1960, he created a brief but memorable series of westerns set in and around the town of Bleak Creek. Four years later came The Night McLennan Died, the first of more than 70 westerns (sometimes called oaters) to feature cavalryman-turned-manhunter Big Jim Rand.
What kind of man was Wade? Was he saint or sinner, gentleman or gunman, law-abiding citizen or dangerous desperado?
Wherever they turned, the Texans came up against the enigma of the fugitive's double personality.
Here is a new challenge for the quick-witted Larry Valentine, a new reason for the hard-fisted Stretch Emerson to risk life and limb in a trigger-fast conflict with five desperate men who all shared the same guilty secret.
Leonard Frank Meares (February 13, 1921 - February 4, 1993)
Sydney born Len Meares aka Marshall Grover, published around 750 novels, mostly westerns. His best-known works feature Texas trouble-shooters Larry and Stretch. Before starting to write, Meares served in the Royal Australian Air Force, worked in the Department of Immigration and sold shoes. In the mid-1950s he bought a typewriter to write radio and film scripts. Inspired by the success of local paperback westerns, he wrote Trouble Town, which was published by the Cleveland Publishing Company in 1955.
His tenth yarn, Drift! (1956), introduced Larry Valentine and Stretch Emerson. In 1960, he created a brief but memorable series of westerns set in and around the town of Bleak Creek. Four years later came The Night McLennan Died, the first of more than 70 westerns (sometimes called oaters) to feature cavalryman-turned-manhunter Big Jim Rand.
