Hard Stone (Linford Western Library)

When range detective Rance Dehner kills outlaw Tully Brooks, he finds that the case will not be closed so easily. Before dying, Brooks tells Dehner that he was involved in a fake bank robbery, and an innocent man has been arrested for the hold-up; his dying request is that Dehner investigate. The detective's compliance sends him to Hard Stone, Colorado, where he must deal with a high-stakes gambler, a mining engineer who's always quick to draw his gun, and a mysterious assailant who seems determined to ambush and kill him...