The Shadow of a Noose

Name: The Shadow of a Noose
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Ralph Compton
ISBN: 9781980021377

Author: Ralph Compton, Ralph Cotton

Series: Danny Duggin #2

Narrator: Jason Culp

Unabridged: 9 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/02/2018

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

In this Ralph Compton western, the Strange twins find themselves in double trouble... Young Jed and Tim Strange lost their father to an outlaw's bullet, and now their mother has succumbed to a fatal illness. Unable to farm their land due to a lack of funds, the twins set out to find their sister-who left home to avenge their father's death over a year ago. Farm life hasn't prepared the twins for the rough-and-tumble cow towns west of Missouri. And before they even begin their search, they're accused of a murder they didn't commit. Just barely escaping a posse's rope, the twins are on the run-wounded, hounded by the law, and desperately seeking the true killers...

About Ralph Compton

Ralph Compton stood six-foot-eight without his boots. His first novel in the Trail Drive series, The Goodnight Trail, was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best debut novel. He was also the author of the Sundown Rider series and the Border Empire series. A native of St. Clair County, Alabama, Compton worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist before turning to writing westerns. He died in Nashville, Tennessee in 1998.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Fil on November 03, 2024

Just finished this one. I reviewed the first in this series (Death rides a chestnut mare) a while ago. This one picks up pretty much just after the first one ended. However, it was written by someone else. Not that the first book was any big shakes in a literary sense, I would call it a for fun read......more

Goodreads review by Shawnee on June 29, 2023

Excellent book! Lots of things happened that I hoped, but the ending...... dang it!......more

Goodreads review by HornFan2 on April 18, 2020

It was the late author Bill Crider, with his 'Outrage at Blanco' novel that made me love revenge stories so much and in away revenge stories for me will always be a tribute to him. Basically a re-read, plucked out of my library, have always liked Ralph Compton's writing, his Danny Duggin series proba......more

Goodreads review by Rodger on July 04, 2008

so why would I read the sequal of a book I rated only one star? good question. The unbelievable journey of the heroine continues. I discovered the book is a trilogy, so I have also ordered the third in the series. If you are looking for a good western pick up Louis LaAmour or Elmer Kelton. Don't eve......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on May 04, 2024

Picking up on the trail set by their older sister who starred in "Death Rides a Chestnut Mare" (my review #211), Jed and Tim Strange's mother has passed away and they set off to tell Danielle/Danny about her passing and also seek their own revenge now that they are older and able to seek justice for......more