Dan Cushman

Taking advantage of his dual Canadian and American citizenship, Tom Flynn joins the Mounties in investigating the brutal death of a boy from the mission school at Assumption--very likely caused by an attack of Black Jack Survay's vicious wolf dog.

In "Reckoning at Robber's Roost" Terry Andress dons a mask to hold up the stage as Old Dad, a veteran outlaw, points out his mistakes. Gambler Shanghai Nivens mistakenly believes he has inherited the First National Bank of Scratchgravel in "The Gambler's Code." Old Dad returns in "The Craft of Ka-yip," with a gang of thieves who mean to hold up a riverboat. And in the title story, Billy Buzzard sets out to form a prospecting trio, but is met with...