Slocum and the Devil's Rope (Slocum Series #401)

Slocum's got just enough rope to hang himself...or someone else.

With buzzards circling in the sky, young Tom Garvin hopes his search for the lost cattle of the Bar M Ranch has not ended in vain. It turns out the carrion those birds are after isn't cows but the body of a man hanging from a dying tree with a very mysterious black rope around his neck.

Impressed by the rope, Garvin decides to take it-along with the dead man's beautiful horse-back to the ranch where he works with John Slocum....