Resultados para "Sugar" en Oeste americano

After the harrowing events that entangled her in Deadwood, Brigid Reardon just wants to move west and get on with her new life in America. But shortly after traveling to Cheyenne to join her brother Seamus, she finds herself caught up in another deadly mystery—beginning with her discovery of a neighbor's body on the plains near their homes. Was Ella murdered? Are either of the two men in Ella's life responsible?

It starts with an abusive, drunken young scoundrel who resists arrest, holds a barmaid hostage, and gets what he deserves from the blazing .44 of Sheriff Caleb York. The New Mexico lawman doesn't regret taking such deadly action, but the late youth's powerful mother, cattle baroness Victoria Drummond, seems bound to feel differently. To York's surprise, Victoria takes the news with stoic resignation - all she asks of him is a favor: Help her convince Willa Cullen - the love of Caleb's life - to sell her the spread that Willa's late father had carved out of the wilderness.

Gunslinger Matthew Slade and his friend, Captain Amos Harding, take up a plea for help from the fledgling wine country to the north. As soon as the two would-be investigators arrive, they find themselves up to their spurs in trouble. Slade learns that the Napa Valley’s primed like a powder keg to blow over a dispute between a winery, a cattle ranch, and the railroad. What are the stakes? Land, pride, the loss of one man’s woman, and the love of another’s wife. With every person lying through their teeth and primed to kill, Slade and Amos have their work cut out for them.

San Francisco’s a boomtown awash in money, with Victorian-style bawdy houses and a loose sense of the law. Enter Matthew Slade. Formerly the Pinkerton Detective Agency’s best investigator, tracker, and gun-hand. Upon his arrival, Slade rescues Mai Lee, a little Chinese girl, from a pair of thugs intent on kidnapping her. The girl’s wanted by Huang Sun, the leader of the dominant tong—a crime syndicate that runs opium dens, fan-tan parlors, and prostitution in the city.

In the rowdy times of the Old West, a lawman’s partner could be the most important thing keeping him alive when all else is lost…. What about when that partner is a horse? This is the story of how Matthew Slade, the Pinkerton detective agency’s best man-tracker and gunslinger, befriended his most loyal companion.