The Loner 22: Gun for Gun

By Sheldon B. Cole

The town of Red Bend waited in fear.
Mace Orde and his three hell-raising sons were coming to in settle some old scores, and not a man there seemed likely to stand up to them ... except Marshal Ben Karpel.
Still, there wasn’t much the ageing marshal could do against such ruthless killers. His beautiful daughter, Dell, was willing to pick up a gun and fight alongside him, but it wasn’t until Blake Durant rode in that they really stood a chance of winning.
When the marshal arrested Mace Orde, he knew they’d never hold him long enough for the circuit judge to get there and try him for murder. Orde’s sons would bust him out just as soon as they could.
That left only one option – to transport him across the desert to the larger town of Creede, where they had deputies who could guard him until the trial-date was set.
All they had to do now – Durant, an ageing lawman and his daughter – was get Orde there in one piece, before his sons could shred them to pieces.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Piccadilly
• Release date: Apr 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215828052

Sheldon B. Cole

Robert Desmond Dunn was born in Mackay, Queensland, Australia but was known as Desmond Robert Dunn or Des Dunn.Dunn wrote fiction paperback novelettes published by Cleveland Publishing from the late 1950's onward. Each title was 30,000 to 40,000 words long. He wrote four crime titles as Des R. Dunn.Dunn is best known for western novelettes published under several pseudonyms. Dunn's pseudonyms included: Shad Denver, Gunn Halliday, Adam Brady, Brett Iverson, Matt Cregan, Sheldon B. Cole, Walt Renwick and Morgan Culp. He is known to have written over 400 titles using these pseudonyms.With Don Harding, Dunn is also believed to have written a number of the 290-300 titles in the Larry Kent detective series.Dunn married and divorced twice and had three children. Dunn died in Brisbane, Queensland aged 73.