2 novels by John Russell Fearn
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Overview: John Russell Fearn (1908-1960) UK author; extremely prolific, he used many pseudonyms. During the 1930s he wrote for magazines, including the US Pulp magazines, but during World War Two he switched to books. He became a central figure in the post-war paperback boom, writing numerous Westerns, crime stories and romances as well as his sf, most of which appeared under the names Vargo Statten and Volsted Gridban (the latter pseudonym being taken over from E C Tubb). In the pulps he wrote many stories as Thornton Ayre and Polton Cross, and also used the names Geoffrey Armstrong, Dennis Clive, John Cotton and Ephriam Winiki; his sf books and crime stories with sf elements include items signed with the personal pseudonyms Mark Denholm, Spike Gordon, Conrad G Holt, Laurence F Rose, John Russell and Earl Titan, and the house names Astron Del Martia, "Griff", Paul Lorraine and Brian Shaw. One pseudonym often wrongly ascribed to Fearn is Vector Magroon.
Genre: General Fiction/Classics, Western
The Gold Bonanza (1950)
A secret worth killing for…
Old prospector Dusty Morgan had never given up hope that one day, he’ll find his long-sought after gold bonanza.
So far, all the gold he’s got is a handful of dust from weeks of sifting rivers.
But whilst trekking through Arizona, near to the town of Hell’s Acre, his luck finally changes.
He quite literally falls into a genuine gold mine.
Dusty knows he can’t just tell anyone about his find, but he figures that Val Kent is probably the only person he can trust with his secret,
Miss Val Kent works her days as a singer at Hell’s Acre’s only saloon, The Last Frontier.
Having grown jaded and looking for a way out of town, when Dusty shows her a chunk of gold, she’s eager to know the mine’s whereabouts.
Drew Carson, owner of The Last Frontier, immediately suspects something’s up.
Managing to cause the old wanderer to reveal his secret, he kidnaps the old man in a desperate bid to keep him from talking.
What’s more – someone else saw Dusty and the gold.
Maninza, a rancher and Aztec Indian, wants to claim the gold she sees as her rightful ancestral property.
If she waits for the right moment, Maninza can swoop in and get Dusty to spill the beans on the gold mine before Carson and his gunhawks can.
Like Carson, all she has to do is be patient.
Meanwhile, suspecting that Carson has taken her old friend, Val ropes in the help of a homesteader, Rod Gayland and his foreman, the portly Bill Tandrill.
Fond of Val, Rod tries to keep her safe but even she can’t escape the bloody mess that ensues…
Can he and Bill find Dusty before its too late?
Ghost Canyon [with Matthew Japp] (1950)
When drifter Terry Carlton encounters the little town of Verdure in Arizona, he’s only seeking some hospitality and shelter for the night, before moving on. But what he learns from his hosts, old man Marchland and his daughter Hilda, piques his curiosity.
Their home, like all the others in town, is boarded up at night; the entire community is living in fear of four ghostly horsemen, who ride only at night. Refusing to share the terrified townsfolk’s fear of the supernatural, Terry trails the mystery riders, but they seem to vanish into thin air in Star Canyon. Then Hilda receives unwelcome overtures from the corrupt Sheriff and, worse yet, her father is abruptly murdered. Can Carlton solve the mystery of Verdure’s sudden deteriorization, and save the town from destruction?
A classic western novel based upon Matthew Japp’s stirring story outline.
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