Pinkerton

The man who recovered the payroll didn't steal a dime. Someone just needs him dead before he can prove it.

Eldridge Sample rode out of the Dragoon Mountains with a recovered strongbox and a clear conscience. Nine days later, in Tucson, a Pinkerton detective named Harlan Deetch sits down across from him in a hotel bar and uses the word discrepancy - and Sample hears everything the word is designed to conceal.

The Consolidated Silver Mining Company says four hundred dollars went...