The Ranch of the Tombstones
By Tuttle, W. C.
When Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens ride into Montana’s Lodge-Pole country looking for work, they find the Tombstone Ranch shadowed by stolen grave markers, bitter feuds, and a reputation no sensible cowhand would envy. A murdered ranch hand, a frightened old cattleman, and a mysterious letter from Boston draw the partners into a trail of suspicion that stretches from lonely range roads to the smoky corners of Caldwell’s saloons. Blending dry frontier humor with hard-boiled range mystery, W. C. Tuttle’s Western tale sends two sharp-eyed drifters into a country where every joke may hide a grudge and every rifle shot may carry a secret.
Publisher: The Ridgway Company (in Adventure Magazine)
First published: 1922