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Borden Chantry
First published 1977
Borden Chantry is a rancher who has reluctantly taken on the duties of town marshal. When a man is found murdered, he refuses to accept the easy explanations offered by frightened townspeople and begins reconstructing the victim’s movements, enemies and business dealings.
The investigation turns a familiar western setting into a procedural mystery. Chantry must rely on observation, testimony and physical evidence rather than gunplay, while the case exposes how quickly violence can be hidden behind respectable frontier reputations. His determination to discover what actually happened places him against people who would prefer the dead man’s secrets to remain buried.
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