Winner of the Spur Award for Best Mass Market Paperback After a prostitute is murdered at the Easy Nickel saloon, Texas Ranger Josiah Wolfe finds his best friend, Scrap Elliot, in jail and wrongly accused. A strangely familiar horse and a mysterious code are the only clues Josiah has to prove his friend's innocence and save him from execution. Once a Yankee reporter gets involved, Josiah is led to Blanche Dumont's House of Pleasures, where he learns of a thieving, jail-broken accountant with strange ties to both the Easy Nickel and the town's wealthiest banker. With a new railroad line blazing into town, everyone--especially the arrogant young sheriff--is determined to clean up Austin. Faced with the ticking clock of Scrap's impending trial, Josiah Wolfe must find out who it was that went one step too far.
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“Sweazy has the rare and enviable ability to convey a balance of gripping action and weighty themes in a conversational manner…He’s a natural storyteller, born to the task.”
— Matthew P. Mayo, author of Haunted Old West
“Larry D. Sweazy could well be a new star in the world of western fiction.”
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Larry D. Sweazy is the author of over fifteen novels. He won the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Short Fiction in 2005 and for Best Paperback Original in 2013, and the 2011 and 2012 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Fiction for the Josiah Wolfe series. He was nominated for a Short Mystery Fiction Society Derringer award in 2007 and won the Best Books of Indiana literary competition in 2011 for The Scorpion Trail. He won he inaugural Elmer Kelton Book Award in 2013. In 2019, he won the Women Writing the West Willa Award for See Also Proof. He has published over eighty nonfiction articles and short stories, which have appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and several other publications and anthologies. He is also a freelance indexer, which also served as inspiration for the Marjorie Trumaine Mystery series. More information can be found at www.larrydsweazy.com.
Tom Stechschulte (1948–2021) was an acclaimed narrator and winner of the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration. He had been a college athlete and business major when a friend dared him to audition for a play. He got the part and traded the locker room for the dressing room, eventually taking him to New York City and to recording audiobooks.