Tabor Evans Books in Order

Estelle Malone is accused of stabbing her wealthy husband, with blood on her nightgown and a witness against her. When her defense lawyer collapses in court, Longarm helps find another attorney while searching for justice.

An Arizona holiday ends when Longarm witnesses a lawman shoot a man in a saloon. A trail of suspicious deaths points toward the deputy and his sister, taking Longarm into a dangerous investigation of murderous authority.

Judge Isaac Parker orders Longarm to infiltrate a gang robbing Arkansas banks and stagecoaches. As he gets closer to the suspects and a mountain doctor, he begins to suspect a larger danger behind the Ozark crimes.

A dying letter from murdered Marshal Monty Kilpatrick sends Longarm after his friend's killers. Determined to avenge Monty and put matters right for his family, he follows a trail that makes justice intensely personal.

Longarm follows outlaws toward a valley locals claim is haunted by witches. The mysterious Crawford women are said to live there, and investigating their connection to the fugitives means entering a place other men fear.

Ordered to help a French marquis recover gold lost en route to Mexico, Longarm reluctantly accepts an aristocratic partner. A kidnapping attempt and an attack on the marshal suggest that the secretive nobleman's mission conceals greater stakes.

A gang robs gold and silver shipments around Tucson, killing anyone who interferes. Longarm stays close to a wagon-train owner to investigate, but attraction to saloon singer Glorieta McCall makes an increasingly dangerous assignment personal.

Longarm rides into Rio Blanco County to stop thieves stealing cattle from the Indian Agency. His investigation is complicated by hired killers pursuing a bounty on his head and enemies determined to avenge earlier clashes.

A dying visitor gives Longarm a clue to stolen army gold hidden in Sweetwater Canyon. The imprisoned robber's daughter offers to help recover it, but pursuing outlaws and doubts about her intentions complicate the search.

Longarm seeks money hidden by a dead outlaw and turns to Cherry Poppin, who may know where it is. Suspicion falls on a suddenly wealthy local lawman, raising the risk of more violence over the missing cash.

Reports from Texas claim that the supposedly dead gunman Clay Allison is killing again. Longarm investigates after a Texas Ranger is murdered, determined to discover whether the killer is an impostor or his own certainty was mistaken.

Longarm goes undercover in Tascosa as a range war threatens to erupt. Locals fear a glowing figure in conquistador armor whose appearances accompany deaths, leaving him to uncover the truth before he becomes another victim.

Two distant cousins persuade Longarm to join their hunt for treasure at Picacho Peak. Discovering another cousin's body turns the journey into a fight to protect his remaining relatives from a gang pursuing the same gold.

Reports that Longarm is taking bribes conceal a criminal impersonating him with a false badge. In Ogallala, a gang plans a bank robbery using the deception, but the real marshal's arrival threatens to expose their scheme.

Longarm reluctantly investigates a commissioner's claim that apparently natural deaths are murders. A town divided into rival factions complicates the inquiry, and evidence begins to suggest the warning is more dangerous than he first believed.

Longarm joins Reno's incoming marshal, Rutherford Peacock, to investigate the previous marshal's murder. Peacock's unknown past invites suspicion, while an encounter with an old flame adds another complication to finding the killer.

Longarm must bring a widow and her two dangerous daughters to justice. Their appeal threatens to distract him from the job, leaving the marshal to resist the very women whose charms could make his assignment lethal.

District Attorney Tess Hayward has brought order to Buffalo Ford, but a corrupt, wealthy election rival threatens her work. She calls on Longarm for help as the campaign becomes a test of justice and the marshal's patience.

Men whose mail-order brides never arrived hire Longarm to find out what happened to them. Following the Old Spanish Trail, he encounters competing rumors and women who may hold the answers to the disappearances.

A bounty hunter's murder sends Longarm to Sioux Siding, where hostile locals resent federal interference. Apart from two welcoming widows, the town offers little help, forcing him to investigate among people determined to handle matters their own way.

Investors and federal officers disappear while investigating suspicious mining shares in Comstock Lode. Longarm reluctantly accepts a female partner for the next inquiry, knowing whoever is behind the deaths will be expecting another investigator.

Searching for missing Miss Boothe leads Longarm across the plains to wealthy rancher Grant Stockton. The man's cruelty turns the investigation into a dangerous confrontation, leaving the marshal to find the woman while confronting someone accustomed to getting his way.

Longarm hunts a gang responsible for railroad holdups, rustling and a marshal's murder. After meeting Emerald Alexander, he suffers robbery, deception and wrongful imprisonment, making his effort to bring the criminals to justice increasingly difficult.

Bandits outside Trinidad stop milk trains without robbing passengers, apparently interested only in delaying deliveries. Longarm investigates the strange pattern, but an attempt to kill him with dynamite reveals that someone considers the answer worth protecting.

The murder of respected deputy marshal Jed King and two of his sons sends Longarm after the Fagan brothers. Their search for money buried on King's ranch threatens further killings, making the pursuit both professional and personal.

An assassin kills Longarm's prisoner during a train journey, then dies in the marshal's pursuit. Mistaken for the gunman by his accomplices, Longarm uses the confusion to approach the elusive criminal who ordered the original killing.

A ship's disappearance sends Longarm to the Texas coast, where he needs a woman captain's maritime guidance. Reports that a long-dead pirate is searching for treasure deepen a mystery the landbound marshal must solve at sea.

Longarm has eight days to solve a woman's murder before her relatives attack the miners they blame. With little evidence and roughly two hundred suspects, he must find the killer before frightened men flee and violence begins.

A ruthless magnate wants control of a town's timber and is willing to use fraud or murder to obtain it. Longarm arrives to help the lumberjacks, but must keep a low profile while confronting the threat.

Two captured blackmailers claim to know the bomber attacking post offices, drawing Longarm into a trip with them and a prison matron. In Hyde's Junction, the investigation exposes him to an assassin who is also waiting for his chance.

Massacres at exclusive poker games in Tombstone and Santa Fe suggest actors are working as assassins. Longarm takes lessons from actress Modesty to get closer to the killers and bring their violent performances to an end.

After saving politician Gordon Maxwell from an assassin, Longarm becomes his bodyguard on a western tour. The man he replaces is angry and quick with a gun, leaving him to protect Maxwell while facing a threat of his own.

An exploding pocketbook injures Longarm and his inexperienced deputy during an attempt to capture the Dekins gang. With a broken leg and a badly hurt partner, the marshal continues the pursuit despite their limited ability to fight.

Longarm traces stolen army horses to a rustler, only for the prisoner to be poisoned by a jailhouse meal. The death points him toward a murderous gang determined to silence anyone standing between them and their business.

Longarm escorts a fugitive from Wisconsin to Fort Smith while enjoying fellow traveler Eloise Stephens's company. Someone intent on killing him appears to know his movements throughout the journey, turning routine prisoner transport into a dangerous mystery.

Sixteen cavalrymen fail to return from an army mission, and Longarm is sent to find them. Harriet insists on joining because her lover is missing, but her uncertain story gives him another reason to stay wary.

Billy Vail asks Longarm to escort two men to Denver: an embezzlement suspect needed as a witness and a family friend who escaped a mental institution. Protecting both travellers presents competing responsibilities that threaten to overwhelm the marshal.

Singer Miss Claire hires Longarm after receiving threats from someone determined to silence her. His investigation becomes harder when she stages her own murder and disappears, leaving him to untangle a danger his client has helped conceal.

An assignment in Nevada lets Longarm escape a wealthy woman's marriage plans, but introduces a violent dispute. White settlers are taking Paiute land and women and killing their horses, drawing the marshal into efforts to stop the bloodshed.

Young women disappear from Montana Territory, sending Longarm into an investigation with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The search exposes a remote settlement on the Canadian plains where the missing women are being bought and sold.

Longarm must work with Billy Vail's inexperienced godson to expose an illegal mining monopoly. Operating under an assumed Canadian identity, he tries to maintain the trap while the young man's spending and the suspects' suspicions threaten the operation.

A million dollars stolen in a train robbery remains missing after ten years. Assigned to find the cash in the Texas Panhandle, Longarm encounters competing treasure hunters whose willingness to kill turns the search into a dangerous race.

Longarm and a Canadian Mountie try to infiltrate a hidden town where wealthy outlaws evade the law. Establishing criminal identities requires a staged robbery and conspicuous spending, while a determined vigilante committee threatens to ruin their undercover mission.

The government assigns Longarm to drive six thousand sheep to a Navajo reservation, where weaving supports displaced residents. Crossing cattle country risks a range war, and armed attackers threaten the flock he is responsible for delivering.

A fellow deputy marshal disappears while trying to end a range war in Arizona. Longarm searches with the missing man's determined fiancee, whose growing enthusiasm for frontier life and interest in her escort complicate an already difficult rescue.

Longarm arrives in Arizona to manage a violent dispute between gold seekers and the San Carlos Apaches. With an elderly companion, a stubborn mule, and an Apache woman, he investigates motives hidden beneath the apparent conflict.

An attempt to murder Denver's police chief sends Longarm searching for a former prisoner seeking revenge. Alternative suspicions raised by a young woman and a madam make the case less straightforward, forcing him to look beyond his first assumption.

Longarm's old enemy Many Thumbs claims to have become a peaceful, religious man. With deaths continuing around the supposed convert, the marshal doubts his transformation and sets out to expose the deception behind his newly pious public image.

Assigned to protect a congressman's wife and daughter during negotiations with Indigenous people, Longarm faces a difficult household. His involvement with a mysterious woman adds another distraction while a persistent assassin threatens the people under his protection.

Deputy Marshal Bradford Gumm vanishes during an effort to settle an Arizona range war. Longarm joins Gumm's fiancee Julia on the search, but her attraction to the frontier and to Longarm creates complications beyond finding the missing lawman.

A map found after a stagecoach robbery leads Longarm toward the ghost town of Zamora. Instead of an ordinary hideout, he discovers a sanctuary for criminals ruled by a powerful woman whose private army protects her authority.

Longarm pursues gang leader Nate Hathaway toward Lodestone, travelling with a woman searching for her outlaw father. Reports that criminals entering the town end up dead make the destination dangerous for a lawman as well as his quarry.

A gang spreads murder and destruction along the Union Pacific railroad, sending Longarm in pursuit. An aging railroad detective eager for personal glory complicates the investigation, making cooperation another obstacle to stopping the killers before their next attack.

Longarm wakes in an Arizona town with no memory of arriving and a dead woman beside him. Realizing he has been framed, he must reconstruct the missing events and identify the murderer before the evidence destroys his own freedom.

Sabotage threatens a new railroad, and suspicion falls on a competing stagecoach company without proof. Longarm investigates the towns along the route, but an apparent mugging makes him wonder whether someone is trying to kill him instead.

While escorting an accused murderer to trial, Longarm visits a woman he cares for and finds she has been kidnapped. Rescuing her from the gang requires him to trust the prisoner whose custody is already his responsibility.

Hired killer Famous Frank escapes from Longarm's custody and leaves more victims behind. With help from Charity, the marshal follows the trail toward a cattle baron whose ambitions threaten to turn the pursuit into a wider range conflict.

Three stolen Gatling guns send Longarm and his friend Lee Suggs across the Mexican border on an unofficial mission. Assisted by a local guide, they search for the weapons while facing bandits who know how to use their prize.

A senator's son disappears while searching for Jean Lafitte's legendary treasure in Louisiana. Longarm enters the bayou to find him, accompanied by the missing man's cousin Natalie, who adds another person to protect amid marshes and hostile gunfire.

After a barber is killed for a small bag of coins, Longarm pursues suspect Karl Hix through Colorado. Using a possible mail theft to justify federal involvement, he follows the fugitive through cities and hobo settlements to seek justice.

Longarm seeks to prosecute the murderous owner of the Dwarf House Saloon, but needs a showgirl's testimony to make the case. Finding the missing star witness becomes essential to holding the proprietor accountable for his crimes.

Longarm pursues axe murderer Quincy Lomax across frontier territories, questioning the killer's associates as the trail grows increasingly gruesome. Lomax's striking appearance makes him recognizable, but stopping the violence requires more than knowing what the wanted man looks like.

After Felix Gaunt shoots a federal employee, Longarm tracks him from Wichita to Fort Worth. A contest for the West's fastest gun draws both men into the same arena, giving the pursuit a dangerous setting among other armed competitors.

Longarm crosses into Mexico with Lee Suggs to recover three Gatling guns stolen en route to Fort Sabre. Outside his jurisdiction, he must rely on a local guide while confronting outlaws ready to turn the captured weapons against him.

A powerful rancher threatens to destroy a town after its residents lynch his son. Longarm comes to their aid, trying to prevent a campaign of revenge from turning the settlement and everyone living there into the rancher's victims.

Mounted raiders with costumes that make their heads appear aflame terrorize local residents and steal Carlton Barstow's cattle. Longarm investigates the gang, seeking to end the attacks behind the fearsome appearance of the riders haunting the range.

The escaped Haughton brothers rob gold trains in the Rockies while entertaining ambitions to overthrow the government. Longarm pursues their Holy Smokes Gang, helped by religious women whose unexpected resourcefulness gives him another weapon against the outlaws.

Longarm travels to Tascosa to protect a judge receiving death threats during Bronson Tull's murder trial. Getting the judge safely to court becomes only part of the assignment as the marshal uncovers deeper motives behind the intimidation.

A mountain man and his daughters lure prospectors into deadly ambushes in the Rockies. Longarm joins a female marshal and her tracker uncle to find the family, resisting the daughters' deceptive appeal while pursuing the killers.

After a difficult gunfight, Longarm seeks a break in Fort Worth's notorious Hell's Half Acre. The district's mixture of gamblers, outlaws, and violence soon ends his holiday, forcing the marshal to return to work among its dangerous inhabitants.

Longarm's involvement with a widow is interrupted by news that a kidnapper known as Blackbeard is approaching town. The criminal's reputation draws the marshal into preparing for a confrontation instead of enjoying the quieter visit he anticipated.

Two early Longarm adventures follow the deputy marshal into hostile settlements: collecting a prisoner connected to Jesse James, then restoring order in a disputed border town. Missing lawmen, rustlers, and obstructive officials make both assignments far from routine.

Longarm faces the possibility of marrying Lizzy Holden, but she wants more than a wedding. Her demand that he surrender his badge forces the deputy marshal to weigh a settled life with her against the law-enforcement career that defines him.

A manslaughter charge costs Longarm his badge and sends him toward drinking and a job as a brothel bouncer. The apparent refuge becomes another danger when he learns that his new employer's side business involves murder.

Officials are being murdered in Montazuma, New Mexico, just as the Vice President prepares to visit. Longarm investigates with help from the dead marshal's sweetheart, suspecting that greed for gold explains the deaths attributed to a local curse.

Four daughters of Howard Diamond seize land they do not own, drawing Longarm to Snakehead Gap in Colorado. Posing as a struggling cowhand, he tries to penetrate their operation and establish what the sisters are doing behind the claim.

Wounded while transporting a prisoner, Longarm reaches the town of Happiness and finds two hanging victims, a missing constable and a mysterious note. His investigation into the town's secrets brings warnings that curious outsiders may not survive.

Longarm rescues wealthy Delia Hamilton after she is left for dead in Denver and receives an unexpected marriage proposal. When another deputy disappears in Arizona, he must put the tempting new future aside to answer the call of duty.

Longarm travels undercover to Yesterday, Wyoming, to investigate the murder of his former mentor. The town's controlling figure, Mr. Jiggs, and its peculiar arrangements make finding the killer more dangerous than a straightforward manhunt.

Longarm heads to Panther Mountain, Texas, to retrieve captured killer Harry Moon for trial. Moon's many relatives are determined to stop the journey, turning a prisoner escort into a running confrontation with armed family members.

Sent to stop stagecoach robberies near the Pecos, Longarm encounters a businessman willing to order murder. After an ambush, a local lawman proposes letting the criminals believe Longarm is dead while they prepare a response.

Longarm tracks a woman accused of stealing from wealthy men, then hears her side of the story. After a deadly confrontation with a posse, an angry undertaker targets both the lawman and the woman who saved him.

Longarm confronts a ten-year-old stealing food and discovers the boy's mother and sister have been kidnapped. With outlaws planning a major robbery, the marshal must find the captives and reunite the family before the danger escalates.

Longarm enters Wyoming's Valley of Skulls to investigate hooded killers terrorizing settlers. Alongside a local agent's sister, he must confront a ruthless rancher and locate the masked posse before its members turn their attention to him.

Longarm sets out to remove a corrupt marshal building a criminal empire in Buffalo Falls, Wyoming. Adeline Hudson joins him as a guide and fellow gunfighter, seeking revenge on the man who murdered her father.

Longarm captures wanted killer Dolphus Lasher in Devils River and puts him in jail. The easy arrest becomes a dangerous siege when Lasher's murderous relatives head toward town, determined to turn the prisoner's fate into a family matter.

This omnibus pairs two early Longarm adventures. He searches the Great Salt Lake Desert for a woman abducted by a cult, then investigates reservation deaths blamed on a supernatural creature while suspecting a crooked land scheme.

Longarm must deliver outlaw Bone McCluskey to Bismarck for execution, but other men want his prisoner dead or alive. Pursuing justice draws the deputy north to Helldorado, a town controlled by a dangerous band of criminals.

Longarm is struck on the head while stopping a bank robbery and loses much of his memory. As a woman claims they are engaged, he struggles to recall the attacker, Sierra Sue, and resume the pursuit.

After a woman is shot dead in his arms, Longarm vows to find the killer in Arizona. Illness and trouble involving a postmaster delay him, but he keeps pursuing the shooter toward the Four Corners region.

Cindy Allison struggles to save her parents' ranch, but prospectors could acquire it cheaply if she dies. Longarm must protect her from men who see murder as a means of securing the land they want.

When outlaws kill Longarm's old friend, a sheriff orders him to stay out of the case. The sheriff and his deputies are soon murdered too, leaving Longarm to pursue killers whose violence is spreading.

Longarm arrives in Indianola pursuing an outlaw and looking forward to seeing heiress Jessica Starbuck. A storm becomes a deadly flood, and a French kidnapper takes Jessica for ransom, turning the visit into a dangerous rescue.

Longarm's routine assignments become personal when a friend's daughter is kidnapped to become a child bride. Despite orders from his boss to return immediately, he refuses to abandon the search for the girl and her abductors.

Longarm pursues killer Simon Grimm after other lawmen investigating him are found murdered. With the fugitive believed to be hiding in vast Palo Duro Canyon, he must organize a posse and search difficult terrain for a deadly opponent.

A powerful ranch fences off its smaller neighbors, setting off violence across a Texas valley. Longarm must restore order in a conflict where old grudges and fresh provocations keep pushing rival factions toward a wider war.

While pursuing murderous outlaws through the desert, Longarm discovers a town uncovered by a sandstorm. Hidden treasure draws armed men to the abandoned settlement, turning his investigation into a dangerous confrontation over the buried loot.

Longarm works undercover as a guard on a stagecoach route plagued by robberies and murdered employees. Trapped in a remote valley with innocent passengers, he must outmaneuver the gang before they add him to their victims.

Longarm searches a mining town for stolen stagecoach money as a deadly treasure hunt overwhelms its acting marshal. The suspected thief's widow asks for protection, but armed pursuers and a calculating killer threaten the investigation.

After arresting Charlie Bugg, Longarm stops overnight in Val Verde while escorting him to Denver. Townspeople recognize the prisoner as a local citizen's murderer and demand revenge, forcing Longarm to defend lawful justice against a mob.