TWO NOVELLAS Dead for the Last Time In "Dead for the Last Time," Larry Sterne is a free-spirited young fellow who comes back to his home town after his first year of college. He learns that an old pedophile has been found dead in an abandoned milk factory and some of his friends are suspected. Before long, one of the friends turns up dead as well. Set in the summer of 1967, this is a nice period piece as well as a genial murder mystery with a serious undertone. Trouble in the Labor Camp In "Trouble in the Labor Camp," Morgan Cross is a field worker who follows the crops. He wants to move up...

A Jimmy Clevis Novel Clevis always says that when he sees a pretty girl walking down the street and looking over her shoulder, he pays attention, especially if she is walking fast. From the time he sees Helen hurrying down the street, Clevis knows she is in some sort of trouble. First he is curious. Then he wants to help. But helping Helen is no simple matter, as he soon finds out. She is trapped in a dark web of lies, deceit . . . and murder. And the more he tries to help her, the more the sticky strands of that web snare Clevis too. Clevis knows there has to be a way to free both of them....

Pete Garnett hadn't planned on shooting anybody. But when he spotted the two hardcases threatening a helpless girl, he didn't have much choice . . . and they fired first. He was just doing what he had to do, and that should have been the end of it. Trouble was, the two had a partner that Pete didn't see. But the third man saw Pete, all right, and it wouldn't be long before he tried to get rid of the girl who could identify him and the man who killed his friends.

A Jimmy Clevis Novel Jimmy Clevis is out of work and needs some money. So when an old man named Tull asks him to do a quick job for him, Clevis agrees. All Clevis has to do is head south to Paloma Springs to find Tull's son. Sounds like easy money, right? Wrong. Clevis isn't just riding into Paloma Springs-he's riding straight into a tangled net of lies, stealing, blackmail, hidden identities . . . and murder.

A Jimmy Clevis Novel This is the third in a mini-series about Jimmy Clevis, the good-natured narrator who appeared earlier in Rancho Alegre and Red Wind Crossing. In this novel, Jimmy sets out to find a missing man. His travels take him to Wyoming, where he comes to the small town of Raven Springs and a couple of roadside inns. People seem to disappear in this place, and in the course of Jimmy's stay, he has to untangle the threads of missing persons, altered identity, greed, and murder.

Travis Quinn doesn't have much luck picking friends. First, a friend gets him fired from a ranch. Then he heads down the Powder River, meeting another -friend- who puts in a good word and gets him hired at the Lockhart Ranch. And, if the rumors are true, this friend might just get Travis killed.