Page Murdock novels

Deputy Page Murdock faces his toughest assignment yet--to infiltrate Indian territory and bring back the escaped cheyenne leader, Ghost Shirt, with only the help of an aging, drunken federal marshal and a half-breed guide.

Leading a posse after a band of killers, Deputy Page Murdock discovers two hanged men and encounters a treacherous ambush.

Page Murdock is a Western cop. He is a U.S. Marshall based in Montana, hot on the trail of a vicious gang heading into the far north of Canada in the dead of winter.

Posing as Brother Bernard Sebastian of the Church of Evangelical Truth, Murdock dons a clerical collar to worm his way into the good graces and confidences of the wary residents of Owen, Texas, in order to stop a gang of ruthless bandits who have been terrorizing the Texas panhandle.

"In the spring of 1896, after thirty years spent dispensing justice in Montana, Judge Harlan Blackthorne expires, leaving Deputy U.S. Marshal Page Murdock, his most steadfast officer, to escort his remains across the continent by rail. The long journey is interrupted from time to time by station stops for the public to pay its respects, and for various marching bands to serenade the departed with his favorite ballad, "After the Ball." This gives Murdock...