Alibi of the Beast [Illustrated]: 5 Western Verdicts (Judge Steele Book 3)

PERIL PRESS presents:

Western Action, April 1955
Judge Steele Story
FINGER OF THE BEAST
by Lon Williams
If ever an accused man looked innocent, this Meetin'-house Joyner did. And Judge Steele wished that that pesty lawyer, French Demeree, were here to defend him. Because Prosecutor Wade Claybrook seemed to be doing his duty with too danged much of a will.
5000 Words

Western Action, June 1955
Judge Steele
PARTICEPS CRIMINIS
by Lon Williams
The late Frog Croker had had a plan—a way to kill a man and not be blamed for it. But what of his sidekick, who shot in self-defense?
5100 Words

Western Action, November 1955
Judge Steele
THE DEVIL'S RELAY
by Lon Williams
Consarn it all, here was a stickler of a problem. The coroner's report on Scary Buddicum was suicide; he'd jumped off a cliff. Yet, Judge Steele and Wade Claybrook knew that the man had been murdered—as surely as if he'd been violently attacked.
5000 Words

Western Action, January 1956
Judge Steele Story
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD
by Lon Williams
Judge Steele was distressed, rather than furious as usual. Below his bench, where murdering catamounts customarily sat, stood a girl, about fourteen years of age. And something told Steele that this was to be the strangest and most difficult case he'd ever presided over.
5300 Words

Western Action, March 1956
Judge Steele Story
DARK ALIBI
by Lon Williams
The mystery was – why was Val Cadogan so confident He could get away with open murder?
4700 Words

This edition includes 12 images between story illustrations and pulp magazine covers.