The Loner 24: The Buzzards Are Gathering

By Sheldon B. Cole

They said a king’s ransom in gold was waiting to be found in Dog Valley. But none of the folks who went searching for it were ever seen again ...
One of the missing fortune-hunters was a girl named Jane Berne, and when her elderly uncle rode into that desolate area to discover what had become of her, his trail crossed with that of Blake Durant, the man they called the Loner. Before they could team up and solve the mystery together, they ran into a religious fanatic named Gideon Sawyer and his four addle-brained sons ... and pretty soon after that found themselves sentenced to hang for what Sawyer considered to be their ‘sins’.
Suddenly the answer to the mystery of Dog Valley and the fate of the missing treasure-seekers became all too clear.
And whether he liked it or not, the only way for Durant to survive and get revenge for the dead was to kill every last Sawyer in the valley ...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Piccadilly
• Release date: Jul 31, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215226766

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.