Roundup #2

When Marshall Buck Barry arrests the notorious outlaw Luke Dagg, his half-sister Red fights to prove Luke's innocence—only to discover the horrifying truth about the man she's always believed in. Now falsely accused of helping Luke escape jail, Red must track him down herself to clear her name and face a terrible choice between family loyalty and justice.

A New York mobster's flunky "Buggs" Feehan thinks he's made a cushy score when his boss Chick Randell summons him to Texas—until a seemingly routine job smuggling goods across the Mexican border reveals itself to be something far more sinister. When a mysterious stranger in their midst uncovers Randell's true scheme, Feehan and his companions face a reckoning in the desert that teaches them there's no outrunning Western justice.

In the early 1900s, William K. Dale arrives in Osage County, Oklahoma with schemes far darker than cattle rustling—he builds a criminal empire targeting the region's newly oil-rich Indian families, using forged deeds, poisoned medicine, and hired killers to steal their wealth and silence anyone who threatens his operation. As Dale's ruthless gang orchestrates murders disguised as accidents and natural deaths, the desperate survivors must find a way to alert the government before the killing stops. This eight-page account of greed and corruption shows how it took federal intervention to expose one of the era's most shocking crimes.

Vic Vanning, special agent for the U.S. Consul, receives word of a forbidden mineral being smuggled from the remote pampas—one destined for a deadly gas that threatens world peace. When Vic ventures into the foothills on a hunt for the hidden mine, he's captured by the operation's ruthless overseers and thrown into slavery alongside fellow prisoners and a mysterious agent working to stop the export. Together, they must engineer an escape and expose the criminal enterprise before the contraband leaves the region.

Sandy Rivers finds himself caught between a desperate killer and a trigger-happy posse when a chance encounter sets off a chain of misunderstandings on the frontier. Mistaken for the outlaw he's actually pursuing, Sandy faces the noose—until fate and a fraying rope give him a second chance to prove his innocence and track down the real culprit. With his horse Babe's help and his own wits, Sandy sets out to turn the tables and deliver justice where it belongs.

When beautiful young waitresses vanish from the Sociable Inn in Texas, Sheriff Gray begins to uncover a sinister pattern—one that leads to a charming innkeeper with a dark secret and a pond full of hungry alligators. As the investigation deepens, the sheriff pieces together a chilling truth about the disappearances and the murderous scheme hidden beneath the inn's hospitable facade. This 1948 crime story explores the depths of obsession and the terrible price paid by those who caught the attention of a killer.