The Dodd-Joel feud was over and, with one rancher's daughter marrying the other's son, the hatchet would be buried. However, local rogues were planning the theft of a wedding guest's priceless jewel, and a couple of professional killers had been hired to eliminate a guest from Kansas. In this double intrigue, the Texas Trouble-Shooters just had to get involved.
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".
The boys are caught bathing outdoors by a woman who bribes them to come meet her editor father in town, who has been beaten up. An accident prone bank teller, witness to a murder, goes out of town to a wedding of a couple from feuding families so he is earmarked for murder. It is announced one of the wedding attendees from out of town will be wearing a most expensive bauble. All come together in this Larry and Stretch tale.