This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. When a runaway lumber wagon smashes into a stagecoach already under siege by masked road-agents, Brick Davidson and his lanky, talkative partner Silent Slade stumble into a robbery that is as baffling as it is violent. An iron box from the Whippoorwill mine, a veiled woman with a gun, and a vanished reward trail all point to a deeper conspiracy hidden inside the rough humor and hard knocks of Sun-Dog County. Brick's red-haired wit, Silent's blustering chatter, and stage-driver Limpy Squires keep the story moving with frontier banter as much as with bullets. In a lawless county where mild Sheriff Bunty Blair has beaten the tougher Zell Mohr, comic incompetence passes for law. Brick and Silent follow clues through saloons, buggy chases, and half-truths, uncovering a cryptic note addressed to Scott Martin and hints of a larger plan involving a signal and something "big." As gamblers, drifters, greyhounds, and suspicious strangers drift through the town, the investigation grows tangled with old loyalties, hidden identities, and the threat of real danger beneath the jokes.
