Longarm and the Backwoods Baroness

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Darn shame, thinks Longarm. The normally pleasing odor of the timber country now reeks with the stench of varmint--the lying, cowardly kind. There's a war of sabotage and subterfuge going on between the cowboys and the lumberjacks. Longarm's been sent to settle things down, but he's got a conflict of interest. See, the lumber camp is headed up by a beautiful widow named Aurora McEntire. And on the other land there's a comely cattleman's daughter named Molly Kinsman. Life's just unfair. But then, so's death. 222nd novel in the "Longarm" series, 1997.

CHAPTER 1

Cheroot clenched between his teeth at a jaunty angle, Longarm marched through the outer office and past the open-mouthed Henry, who called out futilely, "Marshal Long, just a minute-"

Longarm stalked into the office of his boss, Chief Marshal Billy Vail. The banjo clock on the office wall showed the hour as being just after nine o'clock. It was not unheard of for Longarm to arrive at the Federal Building in Denver this early in the morning, but it was a mite rare. Billy Vail frowned and opened his mouth to say, "What-"

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