5 Bullets for Judge Blake

Larry & Stretch #182

by Marshall Grover

While the escapees were headed for Alvison, Wyoming, bent on wreaking bloody vengeance on the crippled judge who sentenced them, two Texas trouble-shooters drifted into that town and ran foul of the law and the local sharpers. They also found new friends, the kind deserving of their protection. When the chips were down, it would be Larry and Stretch versus the killer-pack.

Genres: Westerns

264 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1981

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

[David Veith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a bad little read. I dont do many western books, but was loaned this and another from my uncle. Very quick read, well written (using the slang and verbiage of the time) and enjoyable. Sort of predictable, but still fun. Very to the point and keeps moving along. If the font was normal sized this book would count more as a novella though, and that is how it reads. A fun story that helps on a dull day.  

[Ronald · Rating 5 out of 5]

Five men sent to prison by Judge Blake want him dead. I thought the best part of the book was when L & S check out a saloon's betting games, the conclusions they reach, and how they arrived at them.