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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1986
  • Latest Book:
    January 2020
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Full Series List in Order

Chance

1 - Chance (May-2018)
2 - Riverboat Rampage (Nov-1986)
3 - Dead Man's Hand (Jan-1987)
4 - Gambler's Revenge (Nov-2018)
5 - Delta Raiders (May-1987)
6 - Mississippi Rogue (Jul-1987)
7 - Dakota Showdown (Sep-1987)
8 - Missouri Massacre (Nov-1987)
9 - Deadly Deal (Jan-1988)
10 - Bayou Bluff (Mar-1988)
11 - Gold Fever (May-1988)
12 - White Water (Jul-1988)

Books in Order: 14 titles

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  • When riverboat gambler, Chance Sharpe tracks his missing brother Wyatt to the wilds of West Texas, they stumble on an opportunity that’s just too “golden” to pass up. The key to a conquistador’s dream … an ancient Indian...



  • Chance Sharpe wouldn’t consider himself a gentleman if he didn’t come to the rescue of a beautiful damsel-in-distress. What he didn’t expect was an attempt on his own life that leaves him close to death. Lucky to survive, he is invi...



  • Chance Sharpe was seeing red! The sleazy weasel who held the title to his riverboat, Wild Card, had stolen it all-nice and legal -- for $200 in back taxes. The details apparently had slipped through a few greased palms. In a town where graft and gove...



  • Riverboat owner Tate Browder is one of the slimiest varmints to cruise down the Mississippi. On his boat, the New Moon, he’s fleeced many a sucker in poker games that have made his fortune. But Chance Sharpe is on to Browder and his cheating ways â...



  • LAST IN THE SERIES: When Chance and his old compadre, Sam Clemens (alias Mark Twain), take a New Orleans-bound sidewheeler, they’re plundered by river rogues and plunged into the killing currents of the Mississippi. Getting rescued by a raft-ri...




  • When the President of the United States wants a million dollars in gold given secret passage downriver...even a gambler has to fold his hand. At least until bullion-hungry buccaneers call his bluff with an old bayou battleship. Then, count on Chance ...




  • When Chance Sharpe started his journey through the lonesome Dakota wilds, taking on the sole survivors of a tribal massacre seemed like the sane and saintly thing to do. But his new trail mates turned out to be the white squaw and adopted son of Shad...






  • A meat shortage on board the Wild Card leads Chance ashore for game in the Dakota wilderness, and into an adventure he may never forget … if he lives to remember anything! After a savage mauling at the claws of a grizzly bear, Chance falls prey...



  • There aren’t many turns of the cards that can surprise a riverboat gambler, but when the Montana law wants the Wild Card to ferry a murderer downriver for a meeting with the hangman, Chance Sharpe draws the one hand he never expected. The accus...



  • Fifty mail-order brides aboard the riverboat Wild Card are bound for Montana territory ... courtesy of the New Orleans jail!While Chance Sharpe has his hands full keeping the lively ladies from turning his paddle wheeler into a floating house of plea...



  • Only a split-second move keeps Chance from getting his head blown off by a mean Texas boy who dropped his family inheritance at the poker table. The rich stockbroker who hosted the game isn’t as lucky. But it’s Chance who’s whisked ...



  • Riverboat owner, gambler and ladies' man Chance Sharpe gets word of strange goings-on up on the Mississippi by Craddock's Bend. Several boats have disappeared behind mysterious fogs ... spirits are haunting the riverbanks. it all seems like hogwash t...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Clay Tanner has published 14 books.

Clay Tanner does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Chance 11, was published in January 2020.

The first book by Clay Tanner, Riverboat Rampage, was published in November 1986.

Yes. Clay Tanner has 1 series.