IN THE LAWLESS WEST, ONE MAN STAMPS OUT CRIME Mild-mannered postal thief Brian Henry is not about to give Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long any trouble on the ride back to Denver for trial. After being
MAKIN’ BACON After Bethlehem Bacon’s husband goes missing while out surveying on the Wind River Indian Reservation, Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long heads out to Wyoming Territory to lead the search. A
LONGARM’S FAIR LADY? After saving soiled dove Lucy Potter from two attackers, Longarm takes pity on the young woman. He buys her a new dress, gets her cleaned up, and takes her out for a fancy steak d
IT’S GOING TO BE A BUMPY RIDE? They say actions speak louder than words. So when two masked men with sawed-off shotguns stop the South Park stagecoach, they don’t need to announce their intentions. S
WHITE LIGHTNING One good lawman has already been murdered in pursuit of Missouri moonshiners who could care less if their rotgut leaves a person blind?or even dead. Now it’s Deputy U.S. Marshal Custi
His prisoner had help?but Longarm never saw who it was. The backshooter’s bullet creased the nape of his neck, knocking him from his horse and rendering him unconscious. Eager to make his getaway, Alt
WHAT A PAIR! The Olsen sisters are as beautiful as they are deadly. Hilda and Pearl were twin mistresses to Senator Taft Baker of Sacramento, California, but now the polygamous politician has been sh
HELLCAT IN HANDCUFFS Hell hath no fury like Naomi Foster, the felonious female that Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long has been charged with transporting from Wyoming Territory to Denver for trial. I
THE MALODOROUS SEVEN After her husband is killed in front of her, wealthy widow Frances Mayfield insists on hiring a bodyguard. And who better than the man who rescued her from the attackers?Deputy U
THROW LONGARM NAKED FROM THE TRAIN Like most folks, Longarm has always been fond of his extremities?you might even say he’s attached to them. So after he’s coldcocked following an ill-advised liaison
ISN'T IT ROMANTIC? As thunder booms and lightning flashes and wolves nuzzle the bloody, bullet-ridden corpses of Longarm’s fallen foes out in the wet, muddy streets of a Mexican ghost town, the lawman
3:10 FROM YUMA Crooked town marshal Jeb Beeson has laid down the law?his law. If Longarm isn’t on the Monday train out of Yuma, his casket will be. But Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long isn’t about
COME HELL OR HIGH WATER A feud over water rights has got neighboring towns on the brink of all-out war. After a territorial division split one community into two, the locals found themselves taking s
THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SIX-GUN Longarm the hero of a dime Western novel? Why, the very idea is preposterous! Yet the lovely Delia Wilson, aka novelist Dakota Walker, wants to use the lawman’s p
ONE FOR MY BABY?AND ONE MORE FOR THE ROAD When Longarm’s old friend, Helen Morrow, asks for his help, the lawman doesn’t hesitate. Now a successful madam running several bordellos, Helen informs
THE FORECAST CALLS FOR WAR CLOUDS Longarm’s old friend, War Cloud, the Apache scout, is taking a break from getting shot every day in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show to come to the aid of the U.S. g
SOME SOILED DOVES ARE DIRTIER THAN OTHERS? When Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long’s boss, Billy Vail, sends him to the town of Salt Springs in New Mexico Territory to investigate a possibly crooked
YOU MAY NOW KIDNAP THE BRIDE Beautiful, blushing bride-to-be Casey Summerville was all set to say, ?I do!” after ?Till death do you part.” She never expected her groom to die before the vows, gunned
A SHOT IN THE DARK It’s sort of an unwritten code of the West?if you shoot a woman who’s trying to steal your horse, you promise to find her kidnapped daughter. United States Deputy Marshal Custis
WIDOW MAKER Sheriff Des Rainey was a good lawman, just doing his job, returning from a ranch left in charred ruins after giving the murdered corpses left behind a decent burial. But someone go
CUREN TOWN POPULATION: 365 PEOPLE WHO WANT LONGARM DEAD: SAME It should have been a routine prisoner pickup. But when Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long arrives in Curen Town, the young offender’s fath
LADY KILLER The name makes cavalrymen cower, hard cases head for the hills, and bandidos cry, ?!Vamonos!” They call her Senorita Revenge. Savage and merciless, she and her band of kill-crazy Kiowa hav
LOSING HIS MEMORY COULD MEAN LOSING HIS LIFE... Badly beaten and left for dead, Longarm is rescued by a family of good Samaritans. But he can’t remember his name, his profession, or what happened to h
A BOY AND HIS DOG Fourteen-year-old Bodie may be able to take down an assailant with a two-shot derringer, but the kid is still a long way from being able to take care of himself and his wounded wolf
WHO'S BAYING?AT THE MOON?? The town of Crazy Kate, once known as Little Bucharest, was renamed after Katarina Barkova not only went mad after a wolf killed her beau but—legend has it—turned into a w
HIGHWAY ROBBERY When hooded stagecoach robbers accidentally steal a strongbox containing U.S. mail along with their loot, they make the mistake of committing a federal crime—and tangling with Deputy U
PLUMMER'S HELPER That's what Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long has become. In fact they can chisel it on his tombstone because new deputy Henry Plummer is bound to get him killed. Longarm’s boss has ask
LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK There’s nothing funny about the cold-blooded crimes of the bank robber and murderer known as Laughing Lyle May. After he robbed the Stoneville bank, he trapped the tel
MISSING LINK Deputy Marshal Link St. Clair is missing in action. Last seen hot on the trail of train robbers outside of Cheyenne, the lost lawman hasn't been heard from since—and now it's the job of
AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH… It started with a botched robbery. When the smoke cleared, one Kleiter brother was dead and another in handcuffs, led to the town jail by Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long
NO HONOR AMONG THIEVES When you mess with the mail, you mess with Longarm. Two mail bags have been stolen from a Union Pacific train—and the postal worker guarding them has a bullet hole in his skull
BURNING BED In her youth, her fiery temper and wild ways earned her the nickname Naughty Nellie. But this close kin to Marshal Billy Vail is no killer—at least Billy doesn’t think so. A jury in Carso
LUCK BE A LADY At first glance one might think fortune has smiled on the lovely, redheaded Lucy Horton. But as U.S. Marshal Custis Long soon discovers, she is fleeing a tragic past in Philadelphia—an
IT’S RAINING BULLETS AND BUCKSHOT Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long’s got no stomach for yellow-bellied killers—but when a gang of outlaws takes to decapitating deputies, it’s Longarm who loses his hea
Posing as a drifter named Custis Short to help Don Carter, a former Texas Ranger, protect his mine from a local big shot, deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long goes up against a gang of deadly raiders who w
Longarm comes to Fort Marion to extradite prisoner Anton Gardner, who robbed a military payroll and killed seven men. But when he's set upon by too many enemies to handle, Gardner escapes with Longarm
A judge and his wife have disappeared while boating on the Colorado River. Three river guides have had their throats slit. And Longarm will have to keep his head above water as he battles the ruthle
When a strange range war between Basque sheepmen and Mexican goatherds erupts, Deputy United States Marshal Custis Long must let his six-gun do the talking when neither side will surrender. Original.
Thanks to the testimony of Miss Josephine Pritchard, the outlaw Babe Younger has been duly executed. But his gang has vowed vengeance against the eye-catching eyewitness, and it's up to Longarm to t
Longarm vows to find the coward who shot an old man in the back. But when the trail leads to an actual castle in the desert, Longarm realizes it's not a mirage-especially when he's taken prisoner.