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THE LADY WAS A TARGET.
From Illinois to Wyoming, the Lone Star Hellions grappled with the enigma of a beautiful, headstrong woman and the man hired to murder her, the man whose identity was a tight secret.
At Omaha, Marshal Jefford boarded the Special, to escort a captured outlaw to the Laramie calaboose, and an already complicated situation became fraught with intrigue, danger, the threat of sudden death.
Here are Larry and Stretch, the West's toughest trouble-shooters, at their free-swinging, trigger-fast best, risking their lives in a violent showdown.
And Death rides the rails right alongside them!
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.
From Illinois to Wyoming, the Lone Star Hellions grappled with the enigma of a beautiful, headstrong woman and the man hired to murder her, the man whose identity was a tight secret.
At Omaha, Marshal Jefford boarded the Special, to escort a captured outlaw to the Laramie calaboose, and an already complicated situation became fraught with intrigue, danger, the threat of sudden death.
Here are Larry and Stretch, the West's toughest trouble-shooters, at their free-swinging, trigger-fast best, risking their lives in a violent showdown.
And Death rides the rails right alongside them!
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.
