The Death Broker of Deer Ridge (Ranger McIntyre Book 9)Ranger Tim McIntyre is conducting a routine investigation after a climber falls from a cliff on Deer Mountain. However, the situation quickly escalates when there is a drowning, followed by a death related to an avalanche. As McIntyre digs deeper, he uncovers a disturbing pattern: someone is staging suicides. These apparent suicides are, in fact, murders designed to look like accidental or deliberate deaths.To help him ...

When James Work took a teaching job at the College of Southern Utah in the mid-1960s, he knew little about teaching and even less about the customs of his Mormon neighbors. For starters, he did not know he was a “Gentile,” the Mormon term for anyone not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But just as he learned to be a religious diplomat and a black-market bourbon runner, he also discovered that his master’s degree in literature apparently qualified him to teach jo...

In the 1920s, Rocky Mountain National Park is brand new, yet there's already a feud going on between tour bus drivers and independent guides. One guide is found shot to death, but no one saw a gun. No one heard a shot. Then a bus driver is killed the same way.Ranger McIntyre's glamorous lady detective friend, Vi Coteau, will investigate. Her partner, Eleanor, goes undercover and gets a job driving for the bus company. When it becomes evident that the buses are hauling something othe...

In 1920, Rocky Mountain National Park is only five years old. With the Great War finally over and the automobile readily available, many Americans are motoring to the National Parks for vacation. Ranger McIntyre's main job is to protect the wilderness from the campers and sightseers. But a body, clad only in underpants, is discovered floating beneath a waterfall. Shortly thereafter a second corpse, also clothed only in underwear, is found lying on a log beside a remote lake. Ranger McIntyr...

Mysterious forces drive Gabe Allen to leave home in search of the Keystone Ranch. Job by job, handout by handout, he finally makes it. But his next journey will be far more dangerous, more demanding. He is to see an arrogant lady safely home to her own ranch where her sister is being held hostage by an outlaw gang whose leader is almost certainly insane. Gabe’s only weapons are his wit, ingenuity, and a .44 revolver; but what can one man and one gun do against an outlaw who decorates his s...

City cops face prohibition bootleggers, gangster gamblers, and get complaints about this loud new "jazz" music. But up at Rocky Mountain National Park, Ranger McIntyre has nothing to do except eat breakfast, go fishing-and solve a couple of possible murders...An amateur mountaineer is found hanging from his own rope on Flattop Mountain. Then a geologist studying stones on Flattop somehow ingested a poison plant. Both deaths could be accidental-except that a pair of...

Ranger Tim McIntyre is investigating a series of break-ins at private homes located within the boundaries of Rocky Mountain National Park that are closed for the winter. In one of these homes, a well-dressed stranger is found dead on the floor with his head in the fireplace, apparently suffocated by soot.The investigation reveals that the dead man was a shady antiques dealer looking for a "lost" painting by Albert Bierstadt. A crooked restaurant owner in Denver is keen to acquire t...

His name is Grudj, a misshapen, one-eyed hunchback.He was less than a year old when a wagon wheel crushed his head, and he was left in a shallow grave. His only possession linking him to the white world was a heavy iron bar made by a mysterious blacksmith. When the Plains Indians discovered the abandoned infant with his iron bar, they made him one of their own. He became a water-dreamer, but as he was coming of age, Grudj committed sacrilege and was cast out of the village, just as...

Art Pendragon, owner of the Keystone Ranch, has called a special meeting of the ranchers in the district to address the problem of rustling. The gang is operating out of the fortified Gorre Valley, an almost impenetrable area. When the rustlers raid a picnic of women and children and kidnap them along with Gwen Pendragon, the ranchers band together for an armed confrontation."This cleverly conceived and stylishly presented tale adds several levels of complexity to the standard west...

It's the 1920s. Ranger Tim McIntyre's job is to protect the new Rocky Mountain National Park and see that visitors have a good time. But two visitors are found dead—one hanged, perhaps by accident, one poisoned, less likely by accident—and two small, cloaked figures have been seen adding new rocks to Flattop Mountain's ancient stone medicine circle. And who's this woman who is running around clad only in a leopard skin, telling people she's the New Eve of the 1920s? At least the ranger wil...

Rocky Mountain National Park Ranger Tim McIntyre is torn away from fantasies about how much fly-fishing he can fit into his vacation when he's roped into using his free time for an informal investigation as a favor to his "friend" FBI secretary Vi Coteau—and investigating at his sweetheart's behest makes it likely that he'll be spending time in close quarters with her. Well, no quarters could be closer than exploring Colorado's labyrinthine mines, where upper-crust undergraduate Richard Le...

It's 1923 and Rocky Mountain National Park is scarcely eight years old. District Ranger Tim McIntyre is investigating the unlawful killing of three elk. Gala Book—eleven-year-old daughter of the local barber—has befriended one particularly huge bull elk and decides to protect it by leading it into the safety of the park's backcountry.Elk are not the only endangered animals, either. While someone's killing elk to get the "whistler" ivory teeth, some Denver criminals are "harvesting"...