Mari Aldon

Mason seeks to free his client of a murder charge after a blackmailer is found dead.

Hardie becomes involved with a female Wells Fargo agent.

Hardie aids a man who may be framed for a stagecoach robbery.

A brave teacher dies while saving his students from a burning dormitory.

Slade unwittingly serves as a messenger of death, delivering a booby-trapped Spanish Box to a beloved banker, and must quickly clear himself by finding the real killers before the town's lynch mob musters its courage.

Before Mike Nelson can investigate the disappearance of two geologists, the sea washes one of them upon the beach. His body bears marks made by the suction valves of a giant octopus. Mike knows an octopus rarely attacks.