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Big Jim #8
Devil's Legend
INTO ORTEGA VALLEY HE RODE ... TO BECOME A TARGET!
Like a black cloud, the threat of sudden death hung over Ortega, implacable; malevolent; ominous. The distraught mother of an executed killer had put a curse on the jury that convicted him. All twelve would die, she vowed.
Three had already died, when Big Jim Rand arrived, tagged by the insolent, itchy-fingered Benito Espina. Was the curse working? The tough ex-sergeant of the 11th Cavalry refused to believe in witchcraft. With no regard for the danger that threatened him, he stayed to challenge a cunning conspiracy to fight and win in a conflict of hard fists and blazing .45s.
Leonard Frank Meares (February 13, 1921 - February 4, 1993)
Sydney born Len Meares aka Marshall Grover, published around 750 novels, mostly westerns. His best-known works feature Texas trouble-shooters Larry and Stretch. Before starting to write, Meares served in the Royal Australian Air Force, worked in the Department of Immigration and sold shoes. In the mid-1950s he bought a typewriter to write radio and film scripts. Inspired by the success of local paperback westerns, he wrote Trouble Town, which was published by the Cleveland Publishing Company in 1955.
His tenth yarn, Drift! (1956), introduced Larry Valentine and Stretch Emerson. In 1960, he created a brief but memorable series of westerns set in and around the town of Bleak Creek. Four years later came The Night McLennan Died, the first of more than 70 westerns (sometimes called oaters) to feature cavalryman-turned-manhunter Big Jim Rand.
Like a black cloud, the threat of sudden death hung over Ortega, implacable; malevolent; ominous. The distraught mother of an executed killer had put a curse on the jury that convicted him. All twelve would die, she vowed.
Three had already died, when Big Jim Rand arrived, tagged by the insolent, itchy-fingered Benito Espina. Was the curse working? The tough ex-sergeant of the 11th Cavalry refused to believe in witchcraft. With no regard for the danger that threatened him, he stayed to challenge a cunning conspiracy to fight and win in a conflict of hard fists and blazing .45s.
Leonard Frank Meares (February 13, 1921 - February 4, 1993)
Sydney born Len Meares aka Marshall Grover, published around 750 novels, mostly westerns. His best-known works feature Texas trouble-shooters Larry and Stretch. Before starting to write, Meares served in the Royal Australian Air Force, worked in the Department of Immigration and sold shoes. In the mid-1950s he bought a typewriter to write radio and film scripts. Inspired by the success of local paperback westerns, he wrote Trouble Town, which was published by the Cleveland Publishing Company in 1955.
His tenth yarn, Drift! (1956), introduced Larry Valentine and Stretch Emerson. In 1960, he created a brief but memorable series of westerns set in and around the town of Bleak Creek. Four years later came The Night McLennan Died, the first of more than 70 westerns (sometimes called oaters) to feature cavalryman-turned-manhunter Big Jim Rand.
136 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 1, 2018
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Marshall Grover
679 books11 followersLeonard 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
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
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September 11, 2018
A ranch owner is set up AND a Mexican family as Jim wanders in to town but Benito pretty much sits this one out. Jim gets a possible lead on Jenner coming through and heading quickly north.
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