J. R. Roberts

The Gunsmith only takes jobs that he wants to, that is until riding into Festus, Wyoming. The most powerful rancher in the county offers Clint Adams a seemingly easy proposition, just making a delivery to California. Even though part of the package is a stunning woman, Adams refuses and suddenly finds himself accused of a crime he did not commit. Facing jail or death by hanging, Adams takes on the job and the girl. What he rides into turns into much...

The president has been kidnapped, and the U.S. government has turned to Clint Adams, the Gunsmith, to bring him home safely. But it's not the president sitting in the White House that has been taken-it is the one who has lain moldering for years in Lincoln's Tomb. Can The Gunsmith and his ally, private detective Talbot Roper, catch the culprits-and will they have to re-fight the Civil War to do so?

"Clint walks into a bank in the town of Truxton, Nebraska, performs a transaction with a bank teller he thinks he recognizes. It takes him about a day to realize that he once saw the teller robbing a bank in a Missouri town, several years before. Has the man gotten himself a job at this bank, planning to rob it? He then realizes that he also recognizes a woman who works in the saloon. They were all part of the same gang of robbers. He decided to approach...

"Clint is asked by Bat Masterson to meet him in Louisville, Kentucky. The Gunsmith arrives first, and while waiting for Bat to arrive, is asked by a local distillery owner to invest in his product. Even more, he'd like to put Clint's picture on the label. Clint is advised by a friend, Mad McCall, not to invest. Soon after, McCall is shot from ambush. Was the bullet meant for him or for Clint? And did it have anything to do with Clint's refusal? Clint...

"Clint Adams comes to Denver at the invitation of his friend, Talbot Roper. The best private detective in the country is about to embark on a new venture. He owns part of a new gold mine in Nelson, Nevada. He wants Clint not only to be his partner, but to look the mine over and advise him on whether or not it's a good investment. When they arrive, they discover that others are also interested in the mine. While they are investigating the mine's potential,...

"The Gunsmith attends a lecture in San Francisco, given by an explorer who has a very good reputation. Afterward, he meets the man who is thrilled to meet the famous Gunsmith. He invites Clint to dinner, and over the meal asks the Gunsmith to accompany him on his next trip, which is to India to investigate the Curse of the Gold City which, he says, killed his father. Clint is instantly interested, and agrees. But over the course of the next few days,...

"Someone has a score to settle with the Gunsmith, and after a few attempts are made on his life, Clint Adams decides to lay low in Mexico until it blows over. But he's not the only gringo taking refuge in the sleepy seaside town of Laguna Niguel. With an old friend staying close by, and a man who is going by the name Father Flynn hanging around, everyone is keeping their secrets close and their heads down. But when it gets too quiet in Laguna Niguel,...

When he teams up with his old friend Tyrone Crapface Jones for one last buffalo hunt, Clint Adams finds himself stuck in the settlement of Woodsdale and in the middle of a bloody political rivalry.

"Traveling through Arizona, Roxy Doyle comes across a woman being pursued by multiple riders, intent on not only catching her, but possibly killing her. Roxy takes a hand, helps the woman hold off the riders and escape. Later, she discovers that the woman, Angela Blackthorne, has an unusual occupation for a female. She is a hangman--or hang 'woman.' She has picked up that mantle from her father, who recently was killed to keep him from doing his job....