Border Storm

Larry & Stretch #39

by Marshall Grover

Genres: Westerns

Paperback

About the author

Leonard Frank Meares (13 February 1921 – 4 February 1993) was an Australian writer of western fiction. He wrote over 700 Westerns for the Australian paperback publishers Cleveland and Horwitz using the pseudonym "Marshall McCoy", "Marshall Grover", "Ward Brennan" and "Glenn Murrell".

Among his most famous characters were "Larry & Stretch", Larry Valentine and Stretch Emerson. In the United States (Bantam Books) they they were known as "Larry & Streak" (Larry Vance & Streak Everett)" and the in the Nordic countries they were known as "Bill & Ben".

-Wikipedia

Reviews

[Ronald · Rating 5 out of 5]

A prisoner robber is escorted by stage by an officer of the law. His cronies try a rescue(to get him to tell where the stolen loot is) after being duped by being told he was leaving town on a train. L & S intervene. The officer is killed in a gunfight and snow doesn't help. To prevent a reprisal, one of the boys finds a near deserted town close by to hole up in . Most of the townfolk have left town for a celebration.