Paladin seeks the job of seizing a rancher's son-in-law at Perdido, an isolated Mexican city of outlaws run by outlaws for outlaws.

Paladin accepts the task of capturing an escaped criminal, only to form an irregular bond with the convicted man.

Paladin gambles on eluding an accomplished team of man-hunters in their own stretch of arid wasteland - with the help of an unorthodox Army surplus purchase.

When the man in black chooses to aid a tormented Cherokee ranch owner, his actions lead to questions of which side he's really on.

Paladin secures some ill feelings when he hires his gun to an accused murderer, but may have to fight an altogether unexpected foe in order to keep the terms of his contract.

Paladin forsakes a possibly lucrative appointment in order to guard a young woman from desert perils.

When a simple theater invitation turns into a case of assassination, Paladin takes an expensive contract that may prove even more irregular than he realizes.

Paladin plays the sportsman, reluctantly for once, in an effort to reunite a fallen circus performer with his dignity.

An all-night poker match's deceptive pot gives Paladin strategic inspiration for ending a range war.

Riding the plains on assignment, Paladin's taken prisoner by a rancher and his hands, pursuing the man in black who romanced, then murdered his much younger wife. 2 other passersby, also traveling from the direction of the spread are seized too: a brash cowboy, and a very proper salesman of rifles. All profess innocence, so the wealthy rancher pits the prisoners against each other - because confession or not there'll be lynching at dawn. Paladin is skeptical of everybody. Written by David Stevens

Paladin is hired to investigate a storied Gold Rush madam, for a San Francisco writer. The mere research assignment turns complex when the author's maid, Tuolumne O'Toole, attacks Paladin with a knife, admonishing him that the proper, married writer actually harbors cruel intentions. The boomtown warns off Paladin too, protecting the reputation of the brothel keeper who saved its citizens from an epidemic. Written by David Stevens

Paladin's patience is tested when a settlement, believing typhoid to be a direct result of divine will, condemns innocents to death.

Reckless practical jokes endanger human life as Paladin acquaints an English gentleman with new surroundings.

Summoned to a frontier fort, Paladin learns from a Major Wilson that the nearby Maricopas -- on whose land sits a legendary goldmine -- have recently turned hostile. Paladine agrees to escort the Major to meet Gerada, the Maricopa chief, but Wilson proves to be more interested in stealing gold than resolving differences. Written by dinky-4 of Minneapolis

Christmas proves a dangerous time when a rancher chooses family over peace and violence over negotiation.

A sort-of Zorba of the Grape retains Paladin to rescue his pubescent daughter from an amorous gunslinger who's made off with her. But Paladin discovers the stunning Napa Valley girl comes on like a Trojan fireball, and Jimmy the gunman acts more like Destry out-of-place in wine country, than a rapacious desperado. Wine-loving Paladin sure wants to please his Armenian vintner pal and collect his $1000, but gazing on the face that launched 1,000 wines - who does he protect from whom? Written by David Stevens

Paladin suspects his services may be wasted when he is hired to rein in a fiery female performer's violent, unladylike demeanor.

Paladin offers his services in preventing a coming-of-age story from killing either of its two key players.

Paladin's suspicions are aroused after his tailor dies inside his own goldmine.

During Paladin's stagecoach layover in a small Western town, a burr under a saddle causes a horse to buck off its new rider, a rancher's wife, injuring her severely. The attractive young woman had just gotten off the stagecoach with Paladin, so the real culprit takes advantage of her husband's jealousy to pin the blame on the stranger in black. Paladin flees, so the locals form a vigilante posse. Written by David Stevens

A blue-blood's extravagant Wyoming spread riles a neighboring rancher to terrorize the Bostonian, hoping to drive him off, then take the ranch. Henry Prince's snooty relatives wouldn't accept his wife, a former actress, so the Princes went West. Paladin comes to the timid New Englander's aid, when Prince's wife threatens to leave her husband as she sees him constantly humiliated by rancher Clint's gunslingers. Written by David Stevens

Paladin takes the job of giving ten minutes alone with a married woman, who has operatic aspirations, to a young client.

Paladin is hired to mediate a dispute between an Italian vintner and an Irish oilman. The wine maker claims that the runoff and smoke from the oil site are damaging his grapes. Paladin attempts to find a compromise before the dispute escalates and parties on both sides get hurt. Written by tomtrekp

Martin Westrope's son, a Cavalry officer stationed near the Mexican border was killed in action. But the details of his death are sketchy. Westrope hires Paladin to find the woman that his son married just before his death. Unfortunately very little is known about the woman except that she is from London. Paladin finds a woman claiming to be Isobel Westrope but he is surprised to find another woman also claims to be Michael Westrope's wife. Paladin must find out which is the impostor. Written by tomtrekp

Paladin is hired by Henry Ritchie, the leading citizen of the town of Ashley to stop a dam building project financed by Central City and an engineer named Mike O'Hare. The dam will cost Ashley its water supply. Other less sophisticated gunslingers are also vying for the job. Paladin's first attempt to stop the project is a simple act of sabotage that is not direct enough for Ritchie who wants O'Hare stopped by any means necessary. Paladin soon comes to realize that O'Hare is not the unreasonable man he was led to believe he is and that he could be working for the wrong side. Written by tomtrekp

Two railroad companies are trapped in a deadlock in the town of Big Spur, Colorado. The Texas Colorado and Overland Railroad and The Continental Divide Railroad are arguing over the right-of-way over Raymond Gorge. The Continental Divide has the gorge but the Texas Colorado has the depot. Both sides want the other to back down. Gunmen for both sides have ruined the once-nice-town and intimidated townspeople. Paladin must find a way to settle this dispute regardless of which side wins. Written by tomtrekp

Questions of revising the Civil War put a schoolteacher in gunsights until Paladin decides to make a stand, urging those who may find the truth she teaches painful to do the same.

When Paladin is accused of taking stolen money, he searches for a way to use the situation to better a woman whom he has widowed.

In order to collect the gift of a precious jade chess set, Paladin must first intercept the men who stole it from Hey Boy's family.

To help an old friend, Paladin takes a job guaranteeing a fight against a formidable British boxer when the local Sheriff demands a cut of the action. Keeping the terms of his contract, however, may prove a bit... personal in nature.

Paladin learns all too well how arduous easy living can be without Hey Boy's able help and, to regain his friend, must help him in a fight of honor and retribution.

When Philadelphia's penal code is precariously instituted in a frontier town, Paladin decides he owes a favor to an old friend's son.

When a beautiful lady receives a half-ownership in a silver mine in a rather suspicious-looking will, Paladin sticks his neck out for the sake of a dead man's true wishes.

Paladin lends his room to a pair of newlyweds and--when the bride receives a wedding gift of her cat, mutilated--intervenes in a vicious family feud that hinges on the patriarch's sanity.

Paladin again assists his friend Phyllis Thackeray, M.D., when impatience and panic threaten to generate a smallpox epidemic.

When Paladin finds a quick exit from San Francisco convenient he stumbles into some dangerous prejudice against a family of pacifistic Mennonites.

Paladin ventures into Mexico on the trail of a man who, it turns out, has already been arrested and is dead. Another job presents itself, however, in the form of a shipment of silver dug from the ground by prison labor.

2 beauties Paladin's dating stakeout his San Francisco hotel lobby, so he opts to stalk an accused murderer in Nevada instead. Paladin's dubious when he offers to trot the suspect back alive, but the town's mayor prefers him slung over a saddle. When apprehended, the suspect, just found innocent of another killing, alleges the mayor's framing him for the sheriff's murder. The mayor's black-eyed henchman Boldt (Len Lesser: Uncle Leo on Seinfeld (1990) itches to kill the suspect - or Paladin. Written by David Stevens

Paladin agrees to track-down a sympathetic highwayman in exchange for the return of a a piece of symbolic statuary currently being held hostage.