Tabor Evans Books in Order

Longarm escorts a witness who can help convict the Jennings gang while also transporting a vicious black cat for his boss. Keeping both charges safe becomes difficult when the gang arrives determined to silence the witness.

An ambush mortally wounds Longarm's friend Lucy, prompting him to pursue the killers. Her sister Sallie initially blames him, but the two form an uneasy partnership to hunt the murderous clan responsible for the attack.

Longarm reaches storm-battered Warhorse, Arizona, hunting the train robber who killed his friend. Vigilantes targeting the popular local marshal make him question whether the respected lawman and his wanted murderer could be the same person.

An ax killer terrorizes the snowbound mining town of Sully Creek, where a stranded train creates more potential victims. Longarm must protect passengers, including a singer he cares about, while identifying the murderer before another attack.

Convicted murderer Neal Bird insists he is innocent, and Longarm suspects he may be telling the truth. With Bird's lawyers gone and his execution approaching, the marshal races to find the cowhand who may be responsible.

Longarm escorts a volatile Russian countess and her Cossack party on a Rocky Mountain hunting trip. When she shoots a Ute man, a pursuing war party forces him to keep the difficult group together and alive.

Undercover in El Paso, Longarm investigates smugglers transporting Chinese laborers across the Rio Grande. A one-armed man's invitation to join a Mexican bank robbery complicates his cover while he waits to catch the trafficking ring.

Longarm investigates sabotage aimed at a railroad construction project in Wyoming. The suspected stagecoach operators are also under attack, forcing him to look beyond the business rivalry and identify masked bandits threatening both competing enterprises.

Longarm travels to retrieve young killer Wesley Wade, but the prisoner's powerful father sends gunmen to stop him. When Wade escapes, the sheriff's daughter Jessie Peckinpah becomes Longarm's ally against an army of hired killers.

A vacation with Lila Chandler becomes a hunt for Skull Mountain gold after they meet a newspaperman carrying a map. A deadly attack on Lila's father forces Longarm to put the search for justice before riches.

After defending himself against his landlady's husband, Longarm is accused of assault and murder by the widow. With an inheritance at stake and hostile authorities preparing his execution, he must expose her scheme before he hangs.

Assigned to protect heiress Cynthia Larimer, Longarm accompanies her to her uncle's mountain lodge. The supposedly sporting visit becomes a fight for survival when he discovers that their host's preferred hunting targets are human beings.

Longarm tracks a former federal marshal who has abducted his ex-wife and fled to Monument Valley. Difficult terrain and reports that the fugitive is stirring conflict among the Navajo complicate the effort to rescue his captive.

This omnibus includes two early cases: bank robbery and murder on Oklahoma's borders, and trouble in a Nevada logging town. Longarm confronts rustlers, corrupt agents and lumber barons who enforce their own version of justice.

Longarm watches his boss's sister Alice marry a man he thinks he recognizes from trouble. When the newlyweds disappear immediately afterward, his doubts become urgent as he sets out to discover what has happened to her.

Longarm investigates a stolen religious relic that may reveal the location of legendary treasure. When the man capable of interpreting its clues is kidnapped, he follows a dangerous trail involving a ruthless French fortune hunter.

Moses Arthur is shot before he can tell Longarm urgent news about his granddaughter. Following the woman's name leads the marshal to a desert castle, where captivity complicates his effort to solve the murder and help her.

Longarm arrives in Bennett, Colorado, to protect residents from a gang seeking revenge for a brother's freezing death. As he investigates, conflicting stories and a bushwhacker's attack suggest the town is hiding more than it admits.

Arlis Pine blames Longarm for failing to prevent her marshal father's murder. Determined to catch the escaped gang leader responsible, Longarm heads into the Bear Lodge Mountains, accompanied by a grieving daughter unwilling to stay behind.

Josephine Pritchard's testimony sends outlaw Babe Younger to the gallows, making her a target for his surviving gang. Longarm must protect the witness while facing criminals determined to avenge their leader rather than accept his execution.

Four women calling themselves the Horsewomen of the Apocalypse leave a trail of killings across West Texas. Longarm is sent to arrest them, but the gang has its own plans for the lawman pursuing its members.

A prisoner transfer goes wrong when a couple steals Longarm's captive and his revolver. Finding the prisoner dead reveals that the escape was an execution, sending Longarm after killers who wanted the man's knowledge buried.

Longarm tracks a lawman's murderer to Panamint, where the wanted man is suffering from cholera. As a doctor struggles to contain the outbreak, other criminals complicate the marshal's effort to keep his prisoner alive for trial.

Sent to Wyoming Territory, Longarm tries to prevent a range war between Basque sheepmen and Mexican goatherds. Language barriers complicate peace talks, while someone supplying rifles gives him another threat to investigate before the dispute becomes bloodshed.

After a rogue deputy shoots Marshal Billy Vail and wounds Longarm, the fugitive heads toward Arizona. Longarm pursues him with Nurse Danby, who has left her fiancé behind and may prove essential if the chase turns violent.

Longarm kills Horace Ramsey while stopping his attack on widow Rose Delamonte. The powerful Ramsey family wants revenge, forcing the lawman and the woman he protected to fight for their lives against a determined enemy.

Two Longarm adventures follow an investigation into stolen mining ore and an attempt to end a Kansas range war. Ranching interests, murder and a Tsarist spy complicate the marshal's efforts to recover property and restore peace.

Lucy Horton escapes a troubled past in Philadelphia only to face assassins in Denver. Longarm tries to protect her, but her reluctance to explain who wants her dead makes the task increasingly dangerous for them both.

Marshal Billy Vail asks Longarm to investigate when his relative Nellie is sentenced to hang for burning her husband alive. Longarm travels to Carson City to determine whether she is guilty or another killer started the fire.

Longarm heads to Texas Big Bend country to stop a Kiowa-led group killing cavalrymen. At the military outpost, officers and other residents conceal secrets that complicate his effort to discover the motives behind the attacks.

Longarm arrives at Fort Marion to collect a robber who killed seven men. Attacked by enemies, he loses both the prisoner and his badge, allowing the fugitive to impersonate him and turn the pursuit into a dangerous identity crisis.

Banker's daughter Lacy Sackett deceives her father, bank robbers, a cavalry officer and Longarm while hiding stolen money. The marshal must recover the loot and arrest her without falling for another scheme from his elusive suspect.

A Union Pacific mail robbery leaves a postal worker dead, suggesting the thieves betrayed an accomplice. Longarm joins Treasury agent Beatrice Raven to recover the missing bags and identify the robbers before they silence their pursuers.

Longarm is ordered to train inexperienced deputy Henry Plummer, whose mother was murdered before his eyes. When the young lawman is wounded stopping a bank robbery, Longarm promises to help find the men Plummer has sworn to punish.

A judge and his wife vanish during a Colorado River boat trip, and three guides are found murdered. Longarm descends into the Grand Canyon to investigate, facing ambushers and dangerous river criminals with a companion named Heidi.

After capturing outlaw Bella Flowers, Longarm encounters a bushwhacker whose intended victim may be a woman inheriting a ranch. He accompanies her toward Hell Creek, a former boomtown where the inheritance could bring deadly trouble.

Passing through Wahoo, Longarm stops a robbery and arrests one member of the Kleiter family. The remaining clan prepares to burn the town in retaliation, forcing the marshal to protect its residents from heavily armed mountain men.

Longarm helps a former Texas Ranger protect a gold claim threatened by raiders. When the attackers arrive at night carrying guns and torches, the marshal must defend the claim against men prepared to use violence to take it.

Longarm pursues bank robber Laughing Lyle May, who killed customers and tellers by burning the bank. Finding Lyle wounded in Nowhere brings another mystery: the stolen money has vanished, and nobody admits to knowing where it went.

Longarm searches for a deputy last seen pursuing train robbers near Cheyenne. A widow he recently rescued has also vanished, and their shared surname draws him toward a case involving murder, hidden gold and uncertain identities.

Longarm protects fourteen-year-old Bodie and his wounded wolf-dog after the boy is attacked in Denver. Learning that Bodie stands to inherit a fortune reveals why others want him dead, turning sheltering the child into a dangerous assignment.

After lawmen are ambushed while searching for stolen gold, Longarm heads to the border town of Holy Defiance. Pinkerton agent Haven Delacroix joins him to find the loot and killers amid competing interests and dangerous alliances.

The Drummond Gang kills Casey Summerville's groom and abducts her on their wedding day. Longarm pursues the kidnappers, but Casey's friend Cynthia launches her own rescue attempt, leaving the marshal with two women to bring home safely.

Longarm brings a prisoner into Crazy Kate, a town frightened by a local werewolf legend. With a full moon approaching and wolf wounds on his captive, he investigates the story while armed residents prepare for a supernatural threat.

Stagecoach robbers accidentally steal U.S. mail, drawing Longarm into their crimes. With the pair concealing their faces and speaking only through shotgun threats, he follows scarce clues toward a Deadwood brothel where information can prove deadly.

Sheriff Des Rainey is murdered after investigating killings at a burned ranch. Longarm rides into Diamondback to find the shooter, but silent townspeople leave the determined widow as one of his few sources of help.

A mountain fishing trip ends when Longarm shoots a woman attempting to steal his horse. Discovering that her daughter has been kidnapped, he gets the woman medical help and sets out after three men holding the girl.

Posing as a land speculator, Longarm investigates a possibly corrupt lawman in Salt Springs. His lodgings in the town's hotel and brothel reveal another concern: some of the women working there may also be robbing stagecoaches.

Threats against Helen Morrow's businesses bring Longarm to her aid. He opens the Star Saloon to draw out whoever is responsible, attracting attention from a powerful local man, a corrupt sheriff and a violent enforcer.

Longarm arrives in Curen Town to collect a prisoner, but the young man's influential father refuses to surrender him. When bribery fails, a bounty on Longarm's head turns the town's residents into potential assassins.

Longarm joins Apache scout War Cloud and his daughter to retrieve an Army officer's runaway wife. Her husband's threatened attack on sacred Apache territory could start another war, making the search an urgent attempt to prevent wider bloodshed.

Beaten and left for dead, Longarm survives but loses his memory. In Jensenville, residents recognize him as James Stevens, leaving him to recover his identity and discover his attackers before they return to finish the job.

Attacked and abandoned in Dakota snowdrifts, Longarm survives with help from a Russian woman who nurses him back to health. He then confronts three criminals spending the winter murdering lawmen and terrorizing everyone in their path.

A senator is murdered in Sacramento, and twin sisters Hilda and Pearl Olsen disappear toward Denver. Longarm must find them and determine their roles, while their sharply different personalities make the apparently identical pair difficult to handle.

Longarm leaves his badge behind to protect wealthy widow Frances Mayfield after her husband's murder. At her ranch, seven bodies in a cave suggest someone is trying to frame her, drawing him into another deadly investigation.

Novelist Delia Wilson wants to turn Longarm's exploits into fiction and accompanies him to Reno. Their search for a marshal's kidnapped daughter exposes murder, theft and exploitation, giving Delia a dangerous opportunity to observe her subject firsthand.

A territorial division splits one community into rival towns fighting over water rights. Longarm tries to broker peace, but deadly clashes and a bushwhacker targeting him threaten to turn the dispute into a full-scale war.

Longarm must escort Naomi Foster from Wyoming Territory to Denver for trial, aided by an inexperienced deputy. When she manipulates the young lawman and escapes, Longarm faces both a slippery prisoner and gunmen determined to stop him.

After trying to help Lucy Potter escape a dangerous life, Longarm learns she has been murdered. He sets aside his badge to pursue her killers toward Rock Springs, where the crime's motives complicate his search for revenge.

A hidden gunman wounds Longarm and helps prisoner Alton Gray escape. Back on the trail, the deputy marshal must navigate a corrupt local lawman and uncertain allies to recapture Gray and identify his accomplice.

Longarm crosses into Mexico to recover a stolen Army payroll and rescues Claudia Cordova along the way. His attraction to the hostage becomes a liability when she disappears with the money he came to retrieve.

Two masked stagecoach robbers steal the United States mail, bringing Longarm onto their trail. Driving the coach may draw them out, but its widowed owner's attentions and the bandits' caution complicate his attempt to set a trap.

After another lawman is murdered, Longarm searches Missouri's backcountry for moonshiners selling dangerous liquor. The investigation reveals a larger operation involving whiskey and firearms, with a determined profiteer prepared to protect his trade.

Jessica Ray asks Longarm to help her father, a former lawman falsely imprisoned for murder while criminals steal his gold claim. A corrupt Yuma marshal threatens Longarm, but the deputy refuses to abandon the case.

Longarm travels to Wyoming Territory to find a surveyor who vanished on the Wind River Indian Reservation. The missing man's wife joins the search, but ambushes suggest someone is determined to keep them from discovering his fate.

Postal thief Brian Henry proves unexpectedly helpful when highwaymen attack Longarm during their journey to Denver. With a kidnapped woman needing rescue, the deputy marshal must rely on a prisoner who has every opportunity to escape.