They were ruthless homicidal outlaws, but anonymous, so the New Mexico law authorities were frustrated. The No Name Gang murdered and looted and got away every time. But in a ghost town called Midas Mound, justice awaited the elusive desperadoes. Two drifters were in seclusion there, and their names were Valentine and Emerson. When it came to the final reckoning, the Texas Trouble-Shooters were outnumbered, but their foes were outclassed.
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".
An avalanche forces a stagecoach to hold up in a ghost town, where the boys have been holding up. But some of the passengers have a past that is catching up with them.