Tabor Evans Books in Order

Longarm visits Escondrijo on the Texas coast to escort a federal prisoner back to Denver. Gunmen target him before the journey begins, while a mysterious epidemic adds another urgent problem to what should have been a routine assignment.

A Denver rooming-house fire leaves its inhabitants dead and treasury notes stolen. Longarm tracks the suspected arsonist into Santee country, where pursuing a murderer means entering territory whose residents are prepared to defend their land.

Longarm travels to Bodie to deal with a marshal whose behavior has become dangerously paranoid. He discovers Ivan Kane charging merchants illegal protection fees, turning an inquiry into a confrontation with a lawman abusing his authority.

Longarm tracks train robbers across Arizona, only to lose his horse to a rifle shot near a remote cabin. Stranded in the desert, he must seek shelter from the sun in the same building occupied by the gunman.

Longarm hunts mail thief Cy Berman, who is wanted for murdering U.S. marshals. The pursuit takes him through frozen gold towns in Wisconsin territory, where harsh winter conditions make an already dangerous assignment harder to carry out.

Longarm goes undercover to infiltrate the Killion family, a gang of horse thieves and train robbers skilled at avoiding capture. Posing as a womanizer, he tries to get close enough to the outlaws to bring them under the law.

Longarm travels to California to bring mail-fraud prisoner Buster Hoover back to Denver. The supposedly simple escort becomes dangerous when he discovers Hoover’s involvement in murder and armed robbery, and the prisoner’s friends arrive to free him.

Widow Constance Farnsworth faces threats intended to force her out of her Colorado mountain railroad. She hires Longarm to protect her, drawing the deputy marshal into a conflict where his feelings and official responsibilities become difficult to reconcile.

The government assigns Longarm to capture Wolfgang van Ritterhoff, a trained killer from the Prussian Cavalry. His quarry can handle virtually any weapon and will use any means to escape, testing the deputy marshal’s ability to bring him in.

Longarm pursues Dan Marlow, an outlaw blamed for fifteen deaths who has survived repeated gunshot wounds. After the deputy marshal believes Marlow is buried, rumors that he remains alive force Longarm to confront an unsettling mystery.

Soldiers from Fort Concho are murdered at night in San Angelo. Longarm poses as a gambler and horse trader to investigate, encountering hostility toward the soldiers and a powerful cattle family whose influence reaches across the town.

The U.S. Attorney General sends Longarm to investigate the murder of a Texas postmaster. In Addington, local politics and struggles for power overshadow concern for the victim, leaving the deputy marshal to pursue justice amid competing interests.

Longarm prepares to arrest a jealous husband who has shot a suspected lover of his wife. The case becomes personal when the husband, hoping to avoid punishment, accuses the deputy marshal of also having an affair with her.

Longarm is assigned to escort a woman convicted of murder to prison. Falling in love with his prisoner, he becomes determined to investigate her possible innocence, placing his feelings in conflict with the duty to deliver her sentence.

After rescuing a woman from a barroom fight, Longarm finds himself imprisoned in Mexico and sentenced to hard labor. The woman tries to arrange his escape, but getting free means overcoming the forces keeping him behind bars.

While escorting Harmony Drake to a Colorado hanging, Longarm is ambushed after the prisoner feigns illness. Left for dead as Drake escapes toward Mexico, the deputy marshal must recover and track down the fugitive he lost.

A creature described as half man and half bear has killed four people and abducted a wealthy man's wife. Longarm pursues the Brazos Devil, trying to discover what lies behind the attacks and a substantial bounty.

A landowner sells his daughters to the highest bidders, but their new husbands soon turn up dead. Longarm investigates whether the marriages are cursed by bad luck or conceal a deliberate and profitable criminal scheme.

Longarm is escorting condemned outlaw Ford Oakley to face justice when a gunshot wounds him and his prisoner escapes. He must track Oakley down quickly, knowing that the next attack could finish the job.

Pursuing an escaped convict through the Arizona desert, Longarm reaches an isolated Overland Stage relay station. Suspicious comings and goings persuade him to investigate, complicating his search for the fugitive with questions about the remote stop.

A thief follows a traveling baseball team and robs post offices while the townspeople watch its games. Longarm joins the team, hoping to catch the criminal without letting the distractions of the ballpark hide another theft.

After escorting an embezzler from Mexico City to American custody, Longarm is kidnapped and taken back across the border. His captors demand a prisoner exchange, leaving him to escape, stop their plan, and recover the stolen money.

Diseased Mexican cattle are reaching southern Texas before their required quarantine ends. Working with another deputy in Laredo, Longarm investigates the operation and a bribed customs agent whose actions threaten the cattle trade and local herds.

Longarm arrives in Nebraska to collect a federal prisoner, only to find vigilantes have lynched him and a boy accused of murder. He hunts the group's leaders while investigating the boy's innocence in a schoolteacher's death.

Longarm investigates counterfeiters operating around horse racing, where twin women who own horses become part of the case. A senator's assistant and a jockey draw suspicion as the deputy tries to trace the gang behind the false money.

Members of the Marble gang are being killed while free on bail, apparently by a former secret assassin for the Marshals Service. Longarm must stop the killer and rearrest the surviving gang members before more die.

In Oregon timber country, sabotage fuels a feud between ranchers and loggers. Longarm investigates while drawn to Aurora McEntire, a widow running a logging camp, and Molly Kinsman, whose family belongs to the rival cattle interests.

Two cattle barons seek control of Grit's land through dammed streams, stolen cattle, and violence. Longarm investigates their campaign while a boardinghouse widow seeks justice for her murdered husband, bringing the town's land struggle into sharp focus.

Counterfeiter Nathan Cox is wanted by the government, but other pursuers also have plans for him. Longarm must capture Cox alive while competing interests and gunfire threaten to turn a federal arrest into a fatal pursuit.

Snow leaves Longarm stranded in Kittstown, Wyoming, where a young woman is murdered. Unable to simply continue his journey, the deputy marshal investigates the killing and searches for the person responsible within the isolated town.

Longarm's pursuit of criminals brings him into contact with Welsh writer Glynnis Mathry, whose motives remain unclear. As the hunt continues, the deputy marshal must work out how her involvement affects his efforts to catch the outlaws.

A wanted poster bears Longarm's likeness, and another deputy disappears while investigating it. Longarm heads to Santa Rosa, New Mexico, where criminals have arranged a dangerous trap that turns his own reputation into a weapon against him.

Longarm's vacation is interrupted by trouble surrounding a friend's search for Spanish gold and the kidnapping of a young woman. Outlaw Hank Bass connects the two cases, forcing the deputy back to work to confront him.

Two Native American tribes are at war in Dakota Territory, and Longarm is sent to help establish peace. As gunfire undermines negotiations, he must discover who is encouraging the conflict before the fighting becomes harder to stop.

Longarm learns that his childhood sweetheart has been killed during a bank robbery in a small Colorado town. His hunt for the robbers becomes personal, putting grief and a desire for revenge alongside his duty as a deputy.

Medusa LeMat shoots Longarm with buckshot, leaving him injured but alive. He pursues the woman responsible, facing a difficult mixture of attraction and danger as he tries to bring a determined armed opponent to justice.

Union war heroes and their families are being murdered across the West long after the Civil War's end. Longarm hunts a killer who appears determined to continue the conflict, turning old loyalties into a new threat.

A murdered deputy's remains turn up in a New Orleans swamp, sending Longarm undercover among smugglers. Cajun woman Claudette offers knowledge of the operation, while a voodoo doll resembling the dead marshal adds another disturbing clue.

Longarm investigates an Arkansas moonshining operation that sends whiskey north under counterfeit brand labels and federal stamps. His assignment takes him among hostile Ozark clans, where stopping the illicit trade requires navigating local loyalties and resistance.

Reports of a shrieking banshee frighten miners around Virginia City's mine shafts, and deaths deepen their fears. Longarm investigates whether something supernatural is at work or someone is using the haunting to conceal a human threat.

Longarm and a Texas Ranger are assigned to protect high-level talks along the Mexican border. Their rivalry over Anna Marie threatens cooperation, complicating a job that requires the two lawmen to work together despite their personal dispute.

Three train robbers are dead, and the Calgary Kid is blamed for the saloon killings. Longarm is kidnapped by the Kid's women friends, while an impostor using his name frees the suspect and complicates the investigation.

A gunman dressed as a Hopi kachina dancer leads a gang in a stagecoach robbery. Longarm joins a posse to pursue them, with an English woman reporter and the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings entering the case.

Longarm is assigned to protect Big Hatchet Belcher, a temperance campaigner determined to smash Denver's beer barrels. Keeping the outspoken woman safe becomes a difficult duty when her crusade takes her straight into the city's drinking establishments.

Longarm corners the Hunsacker clan in a Nevada ghost town, where three women claim to be his prospective brides. Their unexpected declarations make the deputy suspicious that his pursuit has brought him into an elaborate trap.

Longarm's vacation plans are interrupted when a bombing targets a visiting Indian Affairs commissioner in Denver. With a dispute over grazing between Utes and ranchers already requiring attention, the deputy must investigate a dangerous attack on the official.

Longarm travels to San Francisco to confront criminal gangs operating in Chinatown. Their pursuit of gold has put the district under the thieves' control, requiring the deputy to combine careful investigation with force against an entrenched enemy.

Following three bank robbers, Longarm reaches Whiskey Creek and meets the widow of its last marshal. She wants him to replace her husband, creating a tempting distraction from the fugitives he is supposed to bring in.

Teacher Zenobia Lowell recruits students and soldiers into a gang that burns its schoolhouse and robs Fort Douglas. Longarm follows her into Mormon country, charged with stopping an outlaw whose influence reaches well beyond the classroom.

A woman shoots a drifter beside Longarm in his favorite saloon. His search for the vigilante takes him into Wyoming, where a band of armed women makes bringing the killer to justice a dangerous undertaking.

A frightened sheriff calls on Longarm to capture six escaped prisoners, accepting them dead or alive. The deputy discovers that every fugitive is a woman, adding an unexpected complication to the dangerous pursuit he has been assigned.

An outlaw hiding in the mountains possesses stolen U.S. Treasury printing plates and the means to manufacture a fortune in counterfeit money. Longarm sets out to stop the operation and bring the criminal behind it to justice.

An unexplained attempt to shoot Longarm in the back leads him toward a corrupt Texas bail-bond business. Its interest in voodoo and habit of returning fugitives dead raise unsettling questions about who is really enforcing the law.

Two Danish killers use diplomatic immunity to evade justice, leaving a crucial witness as the key to stopping them. Longarm must find that witness while navigating international intrigue far outside his usual frontier law-enforcement work.

Longarm expects to see Devil Dave Devereux answer for murder in court. Gunfire disrupts the proceedings and the prisoner disappears, leaving the deputy to pick up the trail of a dangerous fugitive after an audacious escape.

Two unmarried women inherit a former brothel and discover the previous owner's incriminating journals. The diaries offer Longarm clues to a killer, but protecting their new owners becomes urgent as the hidden secrets expose them to danger.

Longarm prefers hunting outlaws alone, but a woman with remarkable shooting skills offers to join his pursuit of a vicious gang. Accepting her help gives the deputy a new partner for a dangerous mission against armed criminals.

Kansas lawman Norman Wold ends up behind bars, much to Longarm's disbelief. Convinced that one of the finest officers he knows deserves better, the deputy heads out to investigate and unravel the trouble surrounding his imprisonment.

Lorena Webber asks Longarm to investigate con man Lester Twill, whose romantic promises leave women abandoned. When she turns up dead, the deputy's inquiry becomes a murder case, raising the stakes of a seemingly straightforward assignment.

A gang led by Mallory steals silver shipments and kills those who interfere, making the case painfully personal for Longarm. His pursuit carries him to Galena City, where the outlaws' control turns the town into hostile territory.

Longarm goes undercover among Wyoming sheepherders threatened by local cattle interests. The dispute over their place in the state has become deadly, and the deputy must protect his charges from ranchers prepared to drive them out through murder.

A U.S. senator asks Longarm to find his missing fiancée, Nora Canady. The deputy investigates her unexplained disappearance, but pursuing the woman brings unexpected dangers that complicate the search and make the senator's request far from routine.

Longarm visits his old friend Wade, the sheriff of Goldstrike, hoping for a break from work. Wade's uneasy behavior becomes more troubling when an ambush kills him, leaving Longarm determined to identify the murderer and seek justice.

The Justice Department sends Longarm to a Colorado spa with two delicate assignments: protect its doctor and keep a senator's son out of trouble. A setting intended for relaxation instead becomes the scene of a demanding protective mission.

A senator's death sends a lynch mob after his Ute employee, but Longarm suspects the widow. The unexplained deaths around her family turn his investigation toward a woman whose reputation may conceal a pattern of calculated murder.

Longarm searches Cherokee country for an outlaw's hidden still, struggling to find local help. His investigation becomes complicated when a woman with a dangerous reputation takes an interest in him, adding personal temptation to an already difficult assignment.

Longarm goes undercover to escort Cherokee Christians into Mexico in search of stranded missionaries. Bandits, Texas Rangers, and Mexican police complicate the journey, while the church women traveling with him keep his protective duties far from simple.

Longarm pursues a gang of thieves who use dynamite to blast their way through obstacles. A widow may be able to identify the criminals, but the secret she holds adds another dangerous complication to his investigation.

Assigned to protect visiting English nobleman Sir Harry Blackstreet, Longarm faces repeated attacks from rival outlaws. He must discover what makes his charge such a valuable target, while the man's niece complicates an already puzzling assignment.

Longarm guards the president's activist granddaughter and her wealthy friends during an undercover mission to help disadvantaged women. Their risky expedition demands constant vigilance, while the group's forceful chaperone and independent behavior complicate the deputy's protective assignment.

A scientist known for his mild manner becomes a dangerous bomber, leaving Longarm to investigate the sudden change. The deputy must learn what is driving the attacks while confronting a foe armed with unstable, deadly explosives.

Stranded in the Ruby Mountains with amnesia, Longarm must trust a woman he knows little about. The approaching Haskill Gang gives him little time to recover his memory before their guns turn his confusion into a fatal disadvantage.

Longarm discovers that a Nevada belly dancer is keeping stolen money for her outlaw boyfriend. The hunt for the loot places the deputy between an elusive woman and a dangerous criminal, with gunfire threatening to settle the matter.

Longarm investigates reports that Colonel Jasper Pettigrew's Wild West Show has kidnapped a Native American sharpshooter and forced him to perform. The deputy must determine what is happening behind the spectacle and confront the people responsible.

Longarm crosses the Rio Grande to rescue the kidnapped bride of a powerful Texas rancher. The mission puts him in hostile territory, where the Mexican government's bounty on his head makes helping the woman especially dangerous.

Sister Simone may be a thief posing as a nun, or a genuine nun with unusual activities. As she heads his way, Longarm must work out what lies behind her religious appearance and what trouble she brings.

Longarm plans to marry and settle into life as a Colorado rancher, but a robbery kills his bride-to-be. Hunting the five men responsible turns the deputy marshal's work into a deeply personal pursuit of vengeance.

A dying outlaw confesses his part in a Denver bank massacre committed five years earlier. Longarm follows the new leads to identify the escaped killers, recover the truth and pursue justice for the people they murdered.

Longarm's hopes for a holiday disappear when his boss sends him to a rough settlement near the Grand Canyon. A gang is causing trouble there, and the woman accompanying him may provide help he badly needs.

Longarm travels to Ambush, Colorado, to investigate claims that a condemned murderer is innocent. A professional gunslinger targeting the marshal complicates his search, leaving him to uncover the truth while protecting his own life.

Marshal Billy Vail sends Longarm after Henry Starr, a horse thief also wanted for murder. Starr is hiding in Indian country, where finding him is only part of the problem and bringing him back promises serious danger.

Alvina Lockwood asks Longarm to help her brother escape a horse-stealing charge. When a sting operation goes wrong, he questions her story and her possible connection to Kansas City Red, a bandit frustrating both criminals and lawmen.

Longarm tracks a robber who has been attacking postmen in the Arkansas mountains and has now committed murder. Following the trail through Mosquito Pass brings discomfort, distractions at an isolated inn and the challenge of catching a killer.

Longarm must hunt a killer who leaves Nevada prospectors with their throats cut while training an unwanted new partner. Boston newcomer Dudley Applewhite needs to learn quickly if the two marshals are to survive the investigation.

Venomous scorpions planted in beds are killing people in Agate, Arizona, and Longarm's old mentor Jesse Jerome falls under suspicion. Investigating his friend forces Longarm to choose evidence over loyalty amid the town's bitter rivalries.

Two census workers are murdered in Utah's Mormon country, sending Longarm to investigate resistance to federal inquiries. A mysterious woman who rides at night and shoots at trespassers may hold the key to the killings.

Army rifles stolen in Texas have been smuggled into Mexico, where Longarm must recover them without legal authority. Rival suspects, an uncooperative ranger and a secretive schoolteacher complicate his effort to prevent the investigation from starting a border war.

Longarm heads to Texas to track a gang of petty criminals, but the Tiger Lady interferes with his mission. Her determination to disrupt his work adds a personal complication to an already demanding pursuit of outlaws.

Tom McCabe is shot in the back during a New Mexico land dispute, and Longarm investigates the rival claimant. Don Alejandro Montoya wants both the dead man's ranch and his widow, making motives difficult to separate.

Bully Cracker Marner's death in a saloon draws little sympathy, but his widow and mother want revenge. Longarm becomes involved as their determination to settle the score threatens to turn one killing into further violence.

A witness who knows Washington's secrets flees to Alaska, and Longarm follows him aboard the Yukon Queen. The riverboat's forceful woman captain has enemies of her own, complicating the marshal's pursuit through unfamiliar territory.

An Arizona town accuses brothel keeper Lilly of murdering two prominent politicians. Delayed by killers aboard his train and an avalanche, Longarm must reach her before time runs out and investigate the victims' unfinished saloon business.

Increase Younger, a woman standing six feet six inches tall, is determined to kill Longarm. The deputy marshal has survived many threats before, but this relentless opponent turns another outlaw encounter into a struggle to stay alive.

Longarm hunts a corrupt customs officer whose bribery racket on the Mexican border ends in murder. Allies with grievances of their own help him pursue Braddock and his violent associates, but the fugitives repeatedly escape his grasp.

Rustlers raid cattle trains in Rampart Valley, then disappear with the stolen animals without leaving tracks. Longarm rides into the dangerous Llano Caliente desert to discover how the thieves keep vanishing and put an end to their raids.

Checking Harrisonville's post office seems an easy assignment until Longarm meets its hostile inhabitants. The women call themselves Druids, keep no men, horses or saloons, and react badly when an outsider starts asking questions.

Reports of dead brothel keepers haunting Animas Point send Longarm undercover as traveler Buck Crawford. Investigating the supposed ghosts brings him closer to very real danger in a town whose strange stories conceal more than he expected.