Where is Emily Greatheart? The elegant young lady from Denver had gone to Arizona to meet her dead fiancé's mother and vanished. Only a bloodstained jacket was found in an abandoned spring buggy hired from the Pike's Crossing livery stable ... Emily's father, Big Jack Greatheart, ex-marshal and one-time tamer of brawling boom towns, lies in bed in Colorado, frustratingly crippled by arthritis and a skeleton of his former self. So he calls on ex-Pinkerton detective Joshua Dillard, who follows a cold trail and hot impulses into battle against ambitious cattleman Bart Waller and his gun-handy, womanizing son, Vincent. No wonder he's soon up to his reckless neck in two-fisted, lead-slinging trouble!

BONUS FEATURE: "Crime Hits the Trail" ... a look at genre crossovers.