J E Terrall: 10 books

During the mid to late eighteen hundred settlers moved out across the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers to make a new life for themselves. Law and order were in coming to the settlements in the west. Frontier Justice is a collection of western short stories about how justice was dispensed when lawmen,...

The brutally tortured body of a young man was found in the old Jasper quarry which had been closed for two decades. Deputy Bill Sparks of the Pennington County Sheriff's Office was called to investigate. Bill's investigation leads to several suspects. In his search for the killer, he discovered a military...

Private Investigator, Nick McCord, receives a call from a well known New York City antique dealer named Neil Cox. He wants Nick to find his missing son. Nick discovers Neil's son, William, has been missing for five years. He explains the difficulties in finding someone who has been missing so long. Neil...

Peter Blackstone, a Denver Private Investigator, was returning home from a date with his long time girlfriend when he turned a corner and almost ran into a large lawn bag. When he tried to remove the lawn bag from the street, it broke open. He discovered that the bag was filled with more than leaves....

Private Investigator, Frank Tidsdale, was visited by Attorney General, Patrick Greene, who wanted Frank to investigate corruption in the Criminal Court System. AG Greene suspected there was at least one judge who was taking money to control the outcome of trials of mob members. Since AG Greene suspected...

What secrets did Spiny Ridge hold? Whatever they were, they were worth attempted murder, trespass, theft and corruption. The dinosaur-like ridge stretched dauntingly across Lazy A Ranch. Tracy Atwater had returned to take over the operation after her father had a stroke. Years of drought and low cattle...

The late eighteen hundreds was a time of growth and expansion in this great country. The land was open and wild. Often the land was waiting for the strong to take it and make something of it. It took courage just to keep it once it was settled Laws were often few and far between. The law was often what...

Rene Richardson's life had become routine and dull. She wished that there could be a little excitement in her life. She thought that meeting a tall, dark and handsome man would be a good start. Her wish began to come true when she received a letter for a law firm in Albany telling her that she was to...

Having just turned sixteen, Susan Farnsworth gathered her belongings then stepped out into an unfamiliar world to her. Standing in front of the orphanage, it frightened her to know that she could not simply turn around and go back inside, and for the first time she was all alone With few options and...

The Story of Joshua Higgins is the story of a young man who seeks to build a life for himself in a new land. Although it is told as the story of one man and what he encountered over the years in the land that became known as the Dakota Territory, and later South Dakota, it is really a collection of stories...