James C. Work

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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1991
  • Latest Book:
    December 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Keystone Ranch Story

Riders Of Deathwater Valley (Sep-2005)
The Outcast of Spirit Ridge (Aug-2006)

Ranger McIntyre

1 - Unmentionable Murders (Sep-2018)
2 - Small Delightful Murders (May-2019)
3 - The Dunraven's Hoard Murders (Mar-2020)
4 - The Stones of Peril (May-2021)
5 - The Mystery of the Missing Bierstadt (Jan-2022)
6 - The Big Elk Murders (Jun-2023)

Book List in Order: 22 titles

  • Prose and Poetry of the American West

    Prose and Poetry of the American West is an extraordinarily comprehensive collection of short stories, poems, and essays about the American West that represents the extensive contributions of all its people: men, women, natives, and immigrants.

    Th...

  • Gunfight!

    The most familiar scene in Western American lore is the gunfight: two men slowly walk toward each other, ready to test speed, accuracy, and nerve in a duel to the death. Writers of the American West have long written this scene -- sometimes to the po...

  • Ride South to Purgatory

    When Pasque Pendragon comes to live at his uncle's ranch in the Wyoming Territory, his mission is to track down the killers of his brothers. But everything changes with the arrival of a stranger at the ranch Christmas party. This giant of a man issue...

  • The Tobermory Manuscript

    For most people, the death of Rocky Mountain Jim Nugent is solved. In June of 1874, while out riding through Estes Park, Colorado, with a friend, Nugent was shot and killed by Griff Evans. Case closed. Professor David McIntyre is not most people. Whe...

  • Ride West to Dawn

    Sent into the mountains to investigate the rising tensions between the homesteaders and ranchers, two men, Will Jenson and Kyle Owens, find their lives forever changed when they encounter the Guardian, a formidable giant who does not take kindly to t...

  • Ride to Banshee Canon

    Recovering from a harrowing ordeal in a hidden valley deep in the mountains, Kyle Owen, a cowboy working for the Keystone Ranch, is determined to discover what happened to him and sets out on a quest that will be transformed into the greatest adventu...

  • The Dead Ride Alone

    When a blacksmith named Evan Thompson rescues him from a certain death, Link Lochlin, forever indebted to this giant of a man, agrees to deliver three chisels, a seemingly simple mission that leads him on an adventure of a lifetime. Reprint....

  • A Title to Murder

    It is déjá-vu for David McIntyre. Not only is he back to teach another summer seminar at Western Nebraska Community College in Alliance, but he is flooded by memories of the seminar he had taught the previous summer when Cass Deering had enrolled i...

  • Riders Of Deathwater Valley

    A Keystone Ranch Story

    Art Pendragon, owner of the Keystone Ranch, has called a special meeting of the ranchers to address the problem of rustling. The gang is operating out of the fortified Gorre Valley and it will require a small army to batter its way successfully into ...



  • The Outcast of Spirit Ridge

    A Keystone Ranch Story

  • Murder in the Blue Mist

    Old-timers know the legend, how sometimes the Blue Mist will materialize on the divide and come flowing silent and ominous down Fall River Valley. And whenever the Blue Mist has appeared, someone has disappeared. If they are ever found again, they’...

  • The Contractor

    The Contractor is based upon an actual event, an 1868 murder in a railroad camp during the building of the Union Pacific. The killer, a construction contractor, flees the territory only to find himself being pursued by N.K. Boswell of the Rocky Mount...

  • The Grub Rider

    Mysterious forces drive Gabe Allen to leave home in search of the Keystone Ranch. Job by job, handout by handout, he finally makes it. But his next journey will be far more dangerous, more demanding. He is to see an arrogant lady safely home to her o...

  • Unmentionable Murders

    Ranger McIntyre - 1

    The body they found floating face-down in the river was wearing only underpants. If it's a fishing accident then is it a photography accident when a second corpse is discovered at a remote lake and is wearing nothing but her underwear? Ranger McIn...

  • Small Delightful Murders

    Ranger McIntyre - 2

    Small Delights Lodge in Rocky Mountain National Park seems to be under siege. Shots fired at the owner, vehicles set on fire, boats sabotaged, electrocution booby traps, and deadfalls set up--and finally arson and murder. RMNP Ranger Tim McIntyre ...

  • The Dunraven's Hoard Murders

    Ranger McIntyre - 3

    02/07/2020One of the legends at Rocky Mountain National Park in the 1920s involves a hotel that once stood there, and an unknown treasure. In 1877, Lord Dunraven built the English Hotel in Estes Park. Lord Dunraven disappeared not long after; the hot...

  • The Stones of Peril

    Ranger McIntyre - 4

    City cops face prohibition bootleggers, gangster gamblers, and get complaints about this loud new "jazz" music. But up at Rocky Mountain National Park, Ranger McIntyre has nothing to do except eat breakfast, go fishing-and solve a couple of possible ...

  • The Mystery of the Missing Bierstadt

    Ranger McIntyre - 5

    Ranger Tim McIntyre is investigating a series of break-ins at private homes located within the boundaries of Rocky Mountain National Park that are closed for the winter. In one of these homes, a well-dressed stranger is found dead on the floor with h...

  • The Big Elk Murders

    Ranger McIntyre - 6

    It's 1923 and Rocky Mountain National Park is scarcely eight years old. District Ranger Tim McIntyre is investigating the killing of three elk. Gala Book, eleven-year-old daughter of the local barber, has befriended one particularly huge bull elk. Sh...



  • The Lawn Lake Murders

    Few folks remember that the U.S. Mint in Denver was robbed of $200,000 in 1922. One robber was found dead. The others vanished with the money. Even fewer people know that at the same time, the Lawn Lake Dam was being built in Rocky Mountain National ...

  • The Dunraven Hoard Murders

    With a two-week vacation so close he can feel it, Rocky Mountain National Park Ranger Tim McIntyre is torn away from fantasies about how much fly-fishing he can fit in when he's roped into using his free time for an informal investigation as a favor ...

  • Down Fall River Dead

    In the 1920s, Rocky Mountain National Park is brand new, yet there's already a feud going on between tour bus drivers and independent guides. One guide is found shot to death, but no one saw a gun. No one heard a shot. Then a bus driver is killed the...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James C. Work has published 22 books.

The next book by James C. Work, Down Fall River Dead, will be published in December 2024.

The first book by James C. Work, Prose and Poetry of the American West, was published in March 1991.

Yes. James C. Work has 2 series.
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