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The Key-Lock Man
First published 1965
Set in the late nineteenth-century American frontier, A lone rider becomes entangled in a violent dispute whose origins lie in hidden identities, old crimes and competing claims to land and loyalty.
Against the historical background of Old West and Frontier America, L’Amour builds the story around suspicion, investigation, violence and the fragile reach of frontier law. His characters survive by reading landscape and people carefully, and the action is grounded in the practical realities of travel, work, weapons, distance and local authority.
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