Jake Logan

When the Cockroach, a mysterious and elusive criminal who only comes out at night, torches a ranch and kidnaps the rancher's wife, John Slocum works to find the lair of the Mexican bandit and make him pay for his crimes.

Color illustration on front cover of three superimposed vignettes: head and neck portrait of man wearing brown western hat and red bandana; man wearing green shirt embracing a woman wearing orange blouse; street scene with a man wearing western clothing firing a pistol at another man holding a knife in his proper right hand, a third man is running away

"If there's one thing John Slocum likes more than whiskey or women, it's winning big in poker. Until a cheater runs off with his money and is killed, getting Slocum arrested for murder. His neck is saved when a British beauty named Abigail Cheswick springs him from jail--and into the folds of her skirt. Soon, he's at the Cheswick camp and Abigail's brother, the arrogant Lord William, wants him to catch wild game worthy of mounting on his royal walls....

A wealthy financier holds a race across the West for fifty daring contestants. Each entrant has a key that may open a strongbox with $50,000. All they have to do is ride hard, follow the rules and find the treasure, if they survive. Slocum wins a key to the strongbox in a poker game and before he knows it, he's reluctantly in the competition.

"Jake Slocum is already riding ragged when his horse needs tending, forcing him to stop in Sleepy Creek. He's being hunted by Goose Martin--a man with a bad reputation and a worse need to put Slocum down for good. But getting killed takes a second saddle when a young man approaches him with a notion that hits harder than any bullet: the notion that Slocum is his father."--p. [4] of cover.

DARK DEEDS It was too dark to see, but the sounds of gunfire and agony were unmistakable. When day came, and Mirabelle Comstock saw what the three men had done to her husband for the sake of information about some hidden gold, information they didn't get, she lost all meekness. She wanted revenge. Slocum has never crossed the line to become a gun for hire. But Mirabelle has a cause behind her anger that he can't deny. Now, if those men know what's...

"Bismarck, North Dakota, is no place to be in the middle of winter. So when a young beauty bedecked in jewels shows up in the local saloon looking for a card game, Slocum can't help but be intrigued. Especially when she turns out to be the worst poker player he's ever seen. The woman is Ginny Garfield, daughter of Gilbert G. Garfield of the Garfield Coal, Trains, and Shipping dynasty, and she's hard on the trail of the man who killed her brother....

THE LADY VANISHES John Slocum's riding his Appaloosa to the Triple T Ranch for work when he decides to pay a visit to his longtime friend Marybeth Meecher. But instead of a smile from her shining face, he's greeted by the business end of a shotgun wielded by a scowling old man named Miguel. He's Marybeth's handyman, but he hasn't seen her in three months. Miguel is also seeing fewer of his friends from a nearby Crow Indian tribe. Rumor has it, they're...