num_pages: 256
description: Hopalong Cassidy has received a message from the dead. When he answers an urgent appeal for help from fellow cowpuncher Pete Melford Cassidy rides in only to discover that his old friend has been murdered and the livestock Pete left to his niece Cindy Blair has vanished without a trace. Hopalong may have arrived too late to save Pete but his sense of loyalty and honor demands that he find that cold-blooded killers and return to Cindy what is rightfully hers. Colonel Justin Tredway criminal kingpin of the town of Kachina is the owner of the sprawling Box T ranch and he has built his empire with a shrewd and ruthless determination. In pursuit of Petes killers and Cindys property Hopalong signs on at the Box T promising to help get Tredways wild cattle out of the rattler-infested brush. But in the land of mesquite and black chaparral Cassidy confronts a mystery as hellish as it is hauntinga bloody trail that leads to the strange and forbidding Babylon plateau $60000 in stolen gold and a showdown with an outlaw who has already cheated death once and is determined to do it again.
language: English
title: Trouble Shooter
publisher: Bantam