Gunfight at Elm Creek

"When Walt Lomax, Sheriff of Elm Creek, appoints his brother, Jed, as deputy he knows he will be bucking trouble, for Jed has just served a prison sentence for robbery. At the same time Walt finds himself having to investigate the buying of the land around Elm Creek. The movements of a stranger and a local lawyer add complications on a trail of arson, kidnap and killing which are not solved until the Lomax brothers face the final gunfight at Elm Creek"--Page 4 of cover.