Margins
Bitter sage
1954
First Published
3.86
Average Rating
152
Number of Pages
Unjustly branded a killer, Wes Tancred vowed never to touch a gun again. So he rode the trail alone, changed his name and hoped to lose himself in the new bustle the railroad brought to Sage City. Then Hong Kong Smith and his killers rode into town. When they shot innocent victims, Wes knew that he had to strap on his guns again.
Avg Rating
3.86
Number of Ratings
21
5 STARS
29%
4 STARS
43%
3 STARS
19%
2 STARS
5%
1 STARS
5%
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Author

Frank Gruber
Frank Gruber
Author · 14 books

Librarian note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name Frank Gruber was an enormously prolific author of pulp fiction. A stalwart contributor to Black Mask magazine, he also wrote novels, producing as many as four a year during the 1940s. His best-known character was Oliver Quade, “the Human Encyclopedia,” whose adventures were collected in Brass Knuckles (1966), and will soon be republished in ebook format as Oliver Quade, the Human Encyclopedia,featuring brand-new material, from MysteriousPress.com, Open Road Integrated Media, and Black Mask magazine.

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