Utah Blaine
The Walking Drum
Westward the Tide
Where the Long Grass Blows
SHORT STORY
COLLECTIONS
Beyond the Great Snow Mountains
Bowdrie
Bowdrie’s Law
Buckskin Run
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour: The Frontier Stories, Volume One
Dutchman’s Flat
End of the Drive
The Hills of Homicide
Law of the Desert Born
Long Ride Home
Lonigan
May There Be a Road
Monument Rock
Night over the Solomons
Off the Mangrove Coast
The Outlaws of Mesquite
The Rider of the Ruby Hills
Riding for the Brand
The Strong Shall Live
The Trail to Crazy Man
Valley of the Sun
War Party
West from Singapore
West of Dodge
With These Hands
Yondering
SACKETT TITLES
Sackett’s Land
To the Far Blue Mountains
The Warrior’s Path
Jubal Sackett
Ride the River
The Daybreakers
Sackett
Lando
Mojave Crossing
Mustang Man
The Lonely Men
Galloway
Treasure Mountain
Lonely on the Mountain
Ride the Dark Trail
The Sackett Brand
The Sky-Liners
THE HOPALONG CASSIDY NOVELS
The Riders of High Rock
The Rustlers of West Fork
The Trail to Seven Pines
Trouble Shooter
NONFICTION
Education of a Wandering Man
Frontier
THE SACKETT COMPANION: A Personal Guide to the Sackett Novels
A TRAIL OF MEMORIES: The Quotations of Louis L’Amour, compiled by Angelique L’Amour
POETRY
Smoke from This Altar
CLIFFHANGER
IT WAS THREE hundred feet to the bottom of the jagged rocks. If the rope was cut now, Hopalong would swing forward against the cliff and he would fall, his body bounding from one projecting rock to the next.
A hand above touched the rope.
Hopalong felt it tremble.
Then it gave a tremendous heave, and he clung desperately.
Behind him, on the edge of the cliff, a voice spoke.
“A mean way to die, Cassidy …”
TROUBLE SHOOTER
A Bantam Book
PUBLISHING HISTORY
Previously published as Hopalong Cassidy and the Trouble Shooter
by Louis L’Amour (writing as Tex Burns)
Bantam hardcover edition / May 1994
Bantam mass market edition / April 1995
Bantam reissue / November 2004
This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Copyright 1951, renewed © 1979 by Bantam Books
Note copyright © 1994 by Louis & Katherine L’Amour Trust
Library of Congress Catalog Card number: 93-37947
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