Ralph Gary

Secret agents James T. West and Artemus Gordon, assigned to protect a Middle Eastern despot from assassination, find their task complicated by the attitude of the degenerate tyrant, Emir El Emid.

Bat Masterson faces a question: Is Marshal Ben Holt the Law or not the Law? - Bat prevents Holt from shooting Harry Sutton in an affray involving an illegal land-grab. Investigating, Bat is not too certain the Marshal's charge is just - particularly when Sutton accuses the Marshal of being the culprit.

Bat down and out on his luck is hired as the bodyguard of a beautiful widow. She must wear a fabulously expensive diamond to the Governor's reception that evening but before they can leave the necklace is stolen while Bat is distracted.