Title: Dead Mans Ranch                            Ralph Compton Novels Paperback
Description: For years Brian Middleton's father waited for his long-lost son to come back to Turnbull, New Mexico, to run the  family's Dancing M Ranch with him. By the time Brian returns, his old man is dead and buried. Although named in  his father's will as the rightful heir to the family cattle spread,  Brian is about to find out it's not that  simple. 
Brandon MacMawe, Brian's half brother, wants the property for himself - as does the county's  wealthiest rancher. Will  Grindle. Brian's got both  hands full fending off these men when a wild card rides into town: a no-account con man and killer named Mortimer Darturo, who has ideas of his own for  the dead man's ranch....
Subjects: Ranches, Fathers, Death, Inheritance and succession, Fiction, Fiction, westerns, Fiction, historical, New mexico, fiction