“Fight for us or get shot!” It wasn’t a threat Bally Buck made to West Cawinne but a grim prophecy. Two six-gun experts couldn’t graze the same range—not when one was Robideau, a half-breed specialist in treachery, and the other was Cawinne, the most ruthless lawman in the Southwest. But Cawinne was tired of fighting, tired of his bloody reputation. He had a ranch and a girl and he wanted peace. Yet if he turned his back on the trouble in Moon Dance, he’d get a bullet in it. So he tied down his holsters and tramped down the dusty street to meet a vicious outlaw who’d never been beaten on the draw. A whole town held its breath. And a whole town’s life hung on the bullet-spattered outcome!

When a young woman is kidnapped, the citizens of Moon Dance blame the outlaws and Indians of Breedtown and decide to take the law into their own hands

At a difficult and sad time in his family life, future Pulitzer Prize-winner Guthrie turned to reading western and whodunit novels. It was then that he realized that he could write as well as current plot-spinners. He decided to combine the two genres, and the result was his first novel, Murders at Moon Dance, which appeared in 1943.

Detective Chief Inspector Derek Williams and his team at Gloucestershire CID, have been trying to track down a serial killer terrorizing Cheltenham Town for several months. They know it is only a matter of time before the killer, who they believe is a woman, will strike again, but they dont know where, when or who. Will they be able to stop her before she claims another innocent victim? During their investigations they stumble across some other dirty dealings, tax evasion and drug running. The police combine forces to take them down, but will it all go to plan?