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Yuma, Arizona, in the early 1880s. When U.S. Marshal Dale Posey needs help bringing notorious outlaw Tom Spooner to justice, he turns to the one man he knows who can deliver: the former leader of Spooner's gang, a man now serving a lengthy sentence at Yuma Prison, Jack Posey, Dale's younger brother. Dale has a deal for Jack: a full pardon if Jack helps Dale capture Spooner and his gang. Jack doesn't exactly jump at the deal, but he does accept it,...
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2021.
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"N 1884, the founder and matriarch of the Illinois Detective Agency is now elderly and active in the way that "Charlie" of Charlie's Angels was. Founded in 1848 as a stock detective agency, the founder is still the backbone of the business he built from the ground up. In The Case of the Missing Cattle, the Stock Growers Association of Montana appeals to Porter for help with a major cattle theft problem inside the Montana Territory. Hundreds, maybe...
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2023.
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"When Judge Parker of Fort Smith, Arkansas, sends two US marshals on a routine prisoner pickup and they never make it to their destination, he sends Marshals Emmet and Jack Youngblood to find them. Emmet and Jack, considered two of the best marshals in the West, come upon the dead bodies of the missing marshals, but their prisoner wagon is not to be found. They follow the tracks left behind by the heavy wagon to Springfield, Missouri. In Springfield,...
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2021.
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"Before he can retire to work his Montana ranch full-time, Tillman has one more important task to perform. A junior marshal who Tillman appointed in Laramie, Wyoming, a few years earlier has taken a wrong path and Tillman must remove him from office. Tillman leaves his two grown sons and his sister, Alice, on the ranch and sets out for Wyoming by railroad. Along the way, Tillman makes a few detours and stops to visit old friends and colleagues. As...
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2018.
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"President Chester Arthur calls semi-retired Murphy back to duty when, with a meeting of world leaders in New York City approaching, prostitutes are being murdered and dismembered in the streets. Murphy is to take command of the investigation. Given the meeting's importance, Arthur also enlists the Pinkerton Detective Agency, saddling Murphy with diminutive Detective Melvin Knoop. From Scotland, he's rarely left the office but has a keen sense for...
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2020.
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"At a prominent university in the Washington area, a man suddenly stands in the middle of Grant's lecture, pulls a gun, screams "The South shall rise again," and attempts to assassinate Grant. Ever close at hand, Murphy kills the assassin before he can carry out his assassination plot. Shortly thereafter, the real motive for the assassination attempt is revealed when it is learned that the niece of the British Ambassador, a student at the Washington-area...
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