Wade Lane is wearing the star, but it’s not the badge of a professional lawman.

Wade is on a private manhunt, determined to catch the killers who had murdered his express-guard brother.

He hopes that his job as deputy sheriff will give him a long leg up on a mighty tough task…

The trail leads Wade to the goldmining town of Cyanide, where he’s sure he can track down the killers by pursuing the outlaws behind a gold robbery.

But it soon becomes clear this gang is directed by one of the shrewdest brains in Western outlawry.

Time after time, Wade’s best efforts are frustrated. He narrowly misses death by a hair, and he feels like a man groping in the dark.

He finally decides there is just one way the stolen gold can be going out of the country – through the wild region around the upper Humboldt, where he finds two mightily interesting people.

One is rancher Reilly’s pretty daughter, Barbara. The other is a man called Slattery, who has several riders working for him.

Slattery claims most of the rangeland thereabout, but strangely he doesn’t seem to be running any cattle on it. And why do some people call him Shattuck?

Slattery’s Range is a thrilling Western mystery.

Praise for Richard Wormser

‘Realistically told… carefully controlled, fast paced’ – Kirkus Reviews

Richard Wormser (1908-1977) was an award-winning American author best known for pulp fiction, crime and Westerns. Originally from New York City, he moved to California to become a rancher in the 1930s, before eventually settling in Arizona with his wife. Wormser won two Spur Awards; for Ride a Northbound Horse in 1964 and The Black Mustanger in 1971.