Timber Line: A Western Trio

by Max Brand

Book by Brand, Max

Genres: Westerns

224 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1999

About the author

Frederick Schiller Faust (see also Frederick Faust), aka Frank Austin, George Owen Baxter, Walter C. Butler, George Challis, Evin Evan, Evan Evans, Frederick Faust, John Frederick, Frederick Frost, David Manning, Peter Henry Morland, Lee Bolt, Peter Dawson, Martin Dexter, Dennis Lawson, M.B., Hugh Owen, Nicholas Silver

Max Brand, one of America's most popular and prolific novelists and author of such enduring works as Destry Rides Again and the Doctor Kildare stories, died on the Italian front in 1944.

Reviews

[Jay Wright]

There are 3 novellas in this book. Max Brand was prolific in the magazines before 1941 and wrote many novellas for the magazines. The first is "Above the Law" which is about an actress that tries to collect a reward fraudulently and is wounded by the actual desperado. He carries her back to the hideout. The second is "One Man Posse; a Sleeper Story. Sleeper is a shiftless kid that captures an outlaw. He uses the reward to buy a horse. He then has to recapture the outlaw and is confronted with a second outlaw. The final story is "Timber Line" which is a case of mistaken identity where a man is passing through and is identified mistakenly as a well known criminal. All stories are action packed with a good plot.