Clay Tanner: 8 books

Fifty mail-order brides aboard the riverboat Wild Card are bound for Montana territory ... courtesy of the New Orleans jail! While Chance Sharpe has his hands full keeping the lively ladies from turning his paddle wheeler into a floating house of pleasure, real danger stalks the riverboat. An unseen...

Riverboat owner, gambler and ladies' man Chance Sharpe gets word of strange goings-on up on the Mississippi by Craddock's Bend. Several boats have disappeared behind mysterious fogs ... spirits are haunting the riverbanks. it all seems like hogwash to Chance-until his own boat, Wild Card, falls victim....

There aren’t many turns of the cards that can surprise a riverboat gambler, but when the Montana law wants the Wild Card to ferry a murderer downriver for a meeting with the hangman, Chance Sharpe draws the one hand he never expected. The accused killer is none other than his former guardian and...

Riverboat owner Tate Browder is one of the slimiest varmints to cruise down the Mississippi. On his boat, the New Moon, he’s fleeced many a sucker in poker games that have made his fortune. But Chance Sharpe is on to Browder and his cheating ways … and soon he’s won the New Moon with a trick...

Chance Sharpe was seeing red! The sleazy weasel who held the title to his riverboat, Wild Card, had stolen it all-nice and legal—for $200 in back taxes. The details apparently had slipped through a few greased palms. In a town where graft and government walked hand in hand, Chance figured he’d...

When Chance Sharpe started his journey through the lonesome Dakota wilds, taking on the sole survivors of a tribal massacre seemed like the sane and saintly thing to do. But his new trail mates turned out to be the white squaw and adopted son of Shadow Killer, the fierce Sioux war chief, and Shadow...

Only a split-second move keeps Chance from getting his head blown off by a mean Texas boy who dropped his family inheritance at the poker table. The rich stockbroker who hosted the game isn’t as lucky. But it’s Chance who’s whisked off to the slammer when he’s found bending over the dead broker...

A meat shortage on board the Wild Card leads Chance ashore for game in the Dakota wilderness, and into an adventure he may never forget … if he lives to remember anything! After a savage mauling at the claws of a grizzly bear, Chance falls prey to a pack of half—crazed vigilantes who mistakenly...