I.J. Parnham

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  • Bibliography:
    50 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2002
  • Latest Book:
    November 2022
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A Fergal O'Brien Western

The Miracle of Santa Maria (Apr-2011)

Book List in Order: 50 titles

  • The Legend of Shamus McGintys Gold

    There's enough gold to make you think you can live forever, but Shamus McGinty has hidden it where no one can ever find it. The only way to find the gold is to stop looking, but once you find it, you won't even realize it.

    So goes the legend of S...

  • The Finest Frontier Town in the West

    Tender Valley is a clean, friendly and law-abiding frontier town. In fact, it is such a fine town that an enterprising businessman might just designate it as the official Finest Frontier Town in the West, an award with a thousand-dollar prize.

    Ne...

  • Miss Dempsey's School For Gunslingers

    When tonic sellers Fergal O'Brien and Randolph McDougal decided to settle in Destiny, they reckoned the new railroad would make Destiny a boomtown, but it only brought an onslaught of surly gunslingers. While Fergal sells his tonic---a universal reme...

  • Yates's Dilemma

    When Wendell Moon hightailed it out of Monotony, he left in his wake a murdered lawman and a mob braying for his blood. Fifteen years later the word is out – Wendell Moon is back! But, for Sheriff Cassidy Yates, Wendell's unwelcome return rekin...

  • Dead by Sundown

    When Galen Benitez killed Mike Donohue's wife, Mike vowed to get his revenge that very day. But it took five long years before he tracked the outlaw down to the inhospitable region known as the Cauldron....

  • Calhoun's Bounty

    With his dying breath, a bullet-ridden man staggers into Stonewall's saloon clutching a gold bar, and names bounty hunter Denver Calhoun as his killer. Despite the dead man being one of the bank-raiding Flynn gang, the hunt is on for Denver....

  • Calloway's Crossing

    When Trip Kincaid saved Milton Calloway's life, Milton was so grateful he gave him his saloon at Calloway's Crossing. But when Trip arrived to claim his property, the saloon wasn't what he expected - it had in fact collapsed into a bubbling pool of m...

  • The Flying Wagon

    When the showman Fergal O'Brien and his assistant Randolph McDougal help a damsel in distress who has been attacked by the bandit Van Romalli, she repays their kindness by riding off with their display of authentic historical memorabilia.

    So som...

  • Massacre at Bluff Point

    Ethan Craig picked the wrong day to start working for Sam Pringle's outfit. Within hours of joining up, Ansel Stark's bandit gang bushwhack the outfit at Bluff Point and Ethan sees all his new colleagues gunned down in cold blood. Ethan vows to get r...



  • The Gallows Gang

    After escaping en route to their appointment with the gallows, eight condemned men led by Javier Rodriguez blazed a trail of destruction. Wherever they went, the Gallows Gang left behind swinging bodies as a reminder of the fate they had avoided.Four...

  • Riders of the Barren Plains

    Jeff Steed rode into Carmon looking for work, but when he got caught up in a bank raid he found himself running from both Sheriff Cassidy Yates and the bank raider Blake Kelly. To escape from the net that was inexorably closing in on him he assumed t...

  • The Treasure of St. Woody

    Harlan Finchley loved reading dime novels, his favorite western hero being the fearless lawman Colt T. Blood, the marshal of the wildest frontier town of them all, Fort Arlen. So when Harlan set out to write his very own dime novel, he sought inspira...

  • Sharpshooter McClure

    Mike McClure had been a deputy sheriff for only a week when U.S. Marshal Jesse Cole recruited him for a dangerous undercover mission to infiltrate the hired guns who were harassing the homesteaders of Harmony. But in a dreadful night of bloody carnag...

  • The Miracle of Santa Maria

    A Fergal O'Brien Western

    The Mission Santa Maria catered to Sundown's needs until bandits murdered their nuns. The young Maria is the only survivor, yet the massacre she witnessed sends her into an endless sleep. For two years she lies unconscious in the mission, gradually b...

  • The Secret of Devil's Canyon

    When Mayor Maxwell and his daughter are brutally murdered, feelings in Bear Creek run high. The townsfolk demand a lynching for the killer and Sheriff Bryce calls in Nathaniel McBain to spirit the killer away through Devil's Canyon. McBain tries to k...

  • The Prairie Man

    When young friends Temple Kennedy and Hank Pierce ignored ghostly warnings about the 'Prairie Man' and continued with their daring, nightly adventures, it almost led to a tragic accident. But Hank had saved his friend's life and Temple vowed to retur...

  • The Legend of Shamus McGinty's Gold

    Six western short stories featuring familiar characters in unfamiliar situations.A Leap of Faith – Nat McBain is to be locked up in jail, but can he survive for long enough to start his sentence?Truth is the Final Victim – Sheriff Cassidy...

  • Sheriff Without a Star

    Cassidy Yates had been stripped of his Sheriff's star by the townsfolk of Monotony. Leland Matlock's son had died, due to his error of judgement. Then Leland, ready to reveal information that could have shed new light on the sheriff's downfall, was s...

  • The Search for the Lone Star

    It has long been rumoured that the fabulous diamond known as the Lone Star is buried somewhere near the town of Diamond Springs. Many men have died trying to claim it, but when Diamond Springs becomes a ghost town, the men who go there have different...



  • Beyond Redemption

    As a child, Jeff Dale witnesses the terrible aftermath of an atrocity: Elmer Drake has killed three members of a family, but the daughter, Cynthia, is missing. Jeff vows that he'll find her, no matter how long it takes. Years later, after finding a c...

  • Devine

    Pinkerton detective Nimrod Dunn is hired by Lieutenant Governor Maddox Kingsley to infiltrate an outlaw gang. But when Nimrod's cover is blown, an innocent life is lost in the raging gun battle. The fearsome US Marshal Jake T. Devine then sets about ...

  • Night of the Gunslinger

    With the town marshal laid up with a broken leg, Deputy Rick Cody must stand alone to protect New Town during a night of mayhem. At sunup Edison Dent will stand trial for Ogden Reed's murder - but Rick doubts his guilt. With only one night to uncover...

  • Six-shooter Bride

    Slammed in a jail cell after killing a man in a crooked poker game, Ethan Craig's future looks bleak. Then a witness, Amelia Ash, comes forward and offers Ethan a way out. But there's a catch. Amelia needs someone to escort her on a treacherous journ...

  • Ethan Craig Series

    Bad Day in Dirtwood - When Luke McCoy killed his first man, the townsfolk of Dirtwood formed a posse, arrested him and threw him into Beaver Ridge jail to rot. For seven long years Luke plotted his revenge and then he finally managed to escape. Now h...

  • Cassidy Yates

  • Bullet Catch Showdown

    Stage magician Malachi Muldoon is the world's most dangerous practitioner of the arcane arts with his performance of the notorious bullet catch. His show in Bear Creek draws the interest of Adam Clements and Deputy Hayward Knight. While Clements is k...

  • All Must Die

    Ten years ago, a spree of murders shocked the townsfolk of Monotony. The victims were shot and dumped, with words scrawled on the ground beside them. When Sykes Caine was arrested for a bank raid, the killings stopped... Now Sheriff Cassidy Yates mus...

  • The Mystery Of Silver Falls

    The whole town turns out to watch the first train journey when the bridge at Silver Falls is completed, but the day turns sour when Kane Cresswell and his gang arrive. They raid the train and, in the ensuing chaos, $50,000 falls into the river, seemi...

  • Vengeful Deputy

    The town of Lone Ridge was a lawless hell-hole until the ruthless Nyle King eliminated all the gunslingers. Now Nyle controls the town and everyone who opposes him ends up dead, so US Marshal Caine tasks his deputy Gabriel Flynn with bringing Nyle to...



  • The Man Who Tamed Lone Pine

    When Nathaniel McBain and Shackleton Frost arrive in Lone Pine to escort a prisoner to Beaver Ridge jail, they are shocked to discover it is Shackleton's old friend Sheriff Ashton Clarke. Five years ago, Ashton tamed the town, but now he's been charg...

  • Hopeman's Legacy

    When Leopold Hopeman bequeaths his fortune to the townsfolk of Little Creek, they use the money wisely and found the prosperous Hopeman Town. But with the booming settlement attracting men who want only personal gain, Mayor Tucker hires former Pinker...

  • Incident At Pegasus Heights

    When fossil-hunter Jim Dragon goes to the aid of a woman in distress, Elmina Fay, his precious fossils are stolen from him in the process. Jim vows to reclaim his property and Elmina offers to help him, but only if he'll do something for her. She has...

  • Devine's Mission

    When Lachlan McKinley raids Fairmount Town's bank, the bounty on his head attracts plenty of manhunters - but everyone who goes after him ends up dead. When bounty hunter Jonathon Lynch, Lachlan's stepbrother, joins the hunt, he soon discovers that a...

  • Marshal of the Barren Plains

    When Marshal Rattigan Fletcher failed to stop Jasper Minx raiding the town bank, the angry townsfolk forced him to leave Ash Valley in disgrace. Rattigan went west in pursuit of Jasper, and in the inhospitable Barren Plains he got a chance to put rig...

  • Gunfight in the Red Eye Saloon

    Sheriff Cassidy Yates reckoned he'd foiled a bank raid in Monotony, but then he discovered that a safe deposit box had been broken into. Nobody knew what had gone missing, but Cassidy suspected that the robbery was connected to the infamous gunfight ...

  • Clementine

    When Fergal O'Brien sells a bottle of his universal remedy to the dying Leland Crawford, Leland makes a miraculous recovery, for several minutes. Then he drops dead. But before the end Leland bequeaths to Fergal his beloved Clementine, a 250-foot sid...

  • Bunty the Bounty Hunter

    Fergal O'Brien has suffered bad times before, but when he walks into the town of Paradise he is at his lowest ebb. Footsore and hungry, he doesn't have a cent to his name. Worse is to follow when Tex Porter raids Paradise's bank and Fergal is th...

  • The Raid That Never Was

    When a game of poker ends in acrimony Sheriff Cassidy Yates has to step in to resolve the dispute. After jailing one man he reckons the matter will end there, but that very night one of the players is killed and another is thrown out of a hotel windo...

  • The Cursed Brand

    The arrival of Jim Dragon and Pierre Dulaine in Monotony gives Sheriff Cassidy Yates plenty of problems when they both claim to be the owner of a wagonload of valuable cargo. Unbeknown to them the wagon also contains a rusty lump of iron, which turns...



  • Shootout at Bleak Point

    When the outlaw Nathaniel McBain was finally brought to justice, it was by his old boss and friend Sheriff Cassidy Yates. Nathaniel got seven years in jail and when he finally came out he resolved to go straight.He did just that and with Shackleton F...

  • Uneasy Partners

    After the death of his long-time partner Nathaniel McBain forms a new partnership with Spenser O'Connor, a man he'd ridden with before he'd turned his back on a life of crime. Spenser claims that he, too, wishes to lead an honest life and he helps Na...

  • The Curse of the Phantom Pirate

    Having finally become a wealthy man Fergal O'Brien no longer has to sell his universal remedy to cure all ills, but that leaves him with the problem of what he wants to do instead. An opportunity arises when he comes across a theater that has been ab...

  • Bad Day in Dirtwood

    • / Historical
    • Buy Buy

    When Luke McCoy killed his first man, the townsfolk of Dirtwood threw him into Beaver Ridge jail to rot. For seven long years, Luke plotted his revenge and then he finally managed to escape. When he rides into Dirtwood to act out his vengeance, he fi...

  • Bad Moon Over Devil's Ridge

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    When Sheriff Cassidy Yates rode into Eagle Heights he never expected he would be in jail by nightfall on an unfounded murder charge. Although Cassidy answered the charge, it was only at the cost of implicating his own wayward brother in both this mur...

  • Calhoun's Justice

    • / Historical
    • Buy Buy

    On his first day as a deputy town marshal Denver Calhoun made a terrible mistake. He gunned down three men who later turned out to be innocent.Marshal Yeager covered up the incident, but sixteen years later, after an unblemished career as a bounty hu...

  • Death or Bounty

    • / Historical
    • Buy Buy

    Spenser O'Connor's luck has finally run out. After years of riding with Kirk Morton's outlaw gang, he's been caught and slammed in Beaver Ridge jail. The noose beckons. Then two bounty hunters offer him a choice - die at dawn or help them track down ...

  • Devine's Law

    • / Historical
    • Buy Buy

    In his twenty-five years of law enforcement, Marshal Jake T. Devine has always brought in his man with a bullet blasted between the eyes. So when Max Randall shoots his mouth off, claiming he knows a devastating secret about wealthy rancher Roy Cowie...

  • The Last Rider from Hell

    • / Historical
    • Buy Buy

    Staked out under the baking heat of the desert sun by Frank Chapel's riders from hell is no way for any man to die. Only someone as resilient as Matt Travis had the courage to endure the heat and the vultures and survive. When finally he manages to e...

  • Mendosa's Gun-Runners

    • / Historical
    • Buy Buy

    'Black Horse Westerns' feature a range of novels by well-known and sometimes new authors. The common thread running through the series is the focus on cowboys and life during the days of the Wild West....



  • The Outlawed Deputy

    • / Historical
    • Buy Buy

    Cassidy Yates was appointed deputy sheriff of Redemption City, but such was his knack of attracting trouble that barely twenty-four hours after his appointment he had been slapped into jail! And if that wasn't bad enough, Brett McBain's outlaw gang r...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

I.J. Parnham has published 50 books.

I.J. Parnham does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Curse of the Phantom Pirate, was published in November 2022.

The first book by I.J. Parnham, The Legend of Shamus McGintys Gold, was published in April 2002.

Yes. I.J. Parnham has 1 series.
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