Van Holt

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  • Bibliography:
    47 Books
  • First Book:
    August 2011
  • Latest Book:
    October 2014
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Books in Order: 47 titles

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  • The Men from Missouri

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    THE MEN FROM MISSOURI

    Dan got to his feet. “Tell me one thing before I go. If you didn’t steal my money, how did Swope get hold of my new carpetbag? He was carryin’ it into your h...

  • Buck Hayden, Mustanger

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    BUCK HAYDEN, MUSTANGER

    Buck Hayden and Frank Martin were mustangers. All they wanted to do was hunt wild horses in wild country. So they headed for the wildest part of Nevada and moved into an abando...

  • The Hell Riders

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    THE HELL RIDERS

    The people of that remote desert town called him Gatten, but that was not his real name. Those who knew his real name never told anyone. And if they knew, they never told anyone why...

  • Six-Gun Showdown

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    SIX-GUN SHOWDOWN

    SOMEONE HAD KILLED SANDIE TURNER’S MOTHER. HANDSOME AND CHARMING CLAUDE BROWN HAD CONVINCED THE GIRL THAT THE KILLER WAS JIM DEXTER.Sandie was watching him with terror in her eyes. “You...

  • The Revenge of Tom Graben

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    THE REVENGE OF TOM GRABEN

    Frank Graben rode away from Crazy Cora’s shack with his back full of buckshot, clinging to the saddle and clinging to life. He soon found the trail blocked by four local ...

  • Six-Gun Man

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    SIX-GUN MAN

    That’s what Dan Hanton was, among other things. A drifter and a loner who preferred wild lonesome country and remote, almost deserted town like Ramada where there weren’t ...

  • GAT

    During the roaring 1920s prohibition era, an old fashioned, tommy-gun toting private detective, named Mark Dash, wanders into Destino, Arizona. Gat, as he soon comes to be called, is just looking for some peace and quiet, and maybe a good woman to sp...

  • Death in Black Holsters

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    DEATH IN BLACK HOLSTERS

    They said Lorn Chambers packed death in his black holsters. But Chambers was a relic from the past, the last of the great gunfighters. All the others were dead or had hung ...

  • Dynamite Riders

    DYNAMITE RIDERS: 9/11 in the Old WestIn the small isolated town of Richman, there were no tall buildings or gas-filled planes to crash into them. When Alf Gant and his men rode through town tossing sticks of dynamite on that fateful day in the fall o...



  • The Fortune Hunters

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    THE FORTUNE HUNTERS

    Skinflint rancher Whitey Murdock dies of a sudden heart attack while three mysterious strangers are shooting him in the legs to make him tell where he had hid more than $100,000 i...

  • Hellbound Express

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    HELLBOUND EXPRESS

    Mad Dog Shorty. Dirty Slim. Dinky Shore. Bull Gandy. Gray Older. The list goes on and on. They’re all dead now, killed by Lonesome Red or each other.Some say they were last se...

  • The Long Trail

    The long trail means death in the Old West. But it’s a long and dangerous trail that Ben Russell must follow in his search for the men who murdered his father. Then it’s that other long trail for the killers when they go down before his blazing g...

  • The Return of Frank Graben

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    THE RETURN OF FRANK GRABEN

    Frank Graben rode into the remote mountain-walled basin looking for peace and quiet. Whitey Barlow, the cattle baron who had taken over the basin, told him to get out. Th...

  • The Stranger from Hell

    On sale for a limited time! Normally $7.99!THE STRANGER FROM HELLThat was what Wade Miller seemed like to the bad guys???the stranger from hell. They were trying to hunt him down, but it soon seemed more like they were just making it easy for him to ...

  • The Antrim Guns

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    THE ANTRIM GUNS

    There weren’t many guns like them in the Old West. The pair that belonged to Hank Antrim had been made in France. After he was killed and his guns disappeared with the ki...

  • Blood in the Hills

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    BLOOD IN THE HILLS

    The Circle 8 bunch were really just outlaws and rustlers. Their leader, Mort Dudley had a devious plan to get rid of a couple of his newly hired hands before the bunch cashed in th...

  • Brandon's Law

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    BRANDON’S LAW

    Brandon’s law was simple. Leave him alone. But Ram Salter’s men couldn’t leave him alone. They had orders from their boss to run him out of the country or kill him....

  • The Bushwhackers

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    THE BUSHWHACKERS

    Heck Martin’s motto was simple. If they left him alone, he would leave them alone.Heck Martin was not pro-Union, like his father and brother. He had joined up with Quantrill to har...

  • Dead Man Riding

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    DEAD MAN RIDING

    In this Eastwoodish western, no one in that troubled part of Texas had ever heard of anyone named Fanton, but that was the name prodigal brother Hawk Spradlin whispered ju...



  • Dead Man's Trail

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    DEAD MAN'S TRAIL

    Four hired gunmen killed Tom Bannon's brother and disappeared without a trace, leaving no trail that he could follow. So he decided to follow the back trail of his dead brother, ho...

  • The Gundown Trail

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    THE GUNDOWN TRAIL

    The trail Ben Hite rode should have been called THE GUNDOWN TRAIL, because that's what it turned out to be. Two gundowners named Jeff Mitton and Steve Kibben had follow...

  • The Gundowners

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    The Gundowners

    While Jeff Mitton is away fighting in the War Between the States, his sister Lettie disappears. When he returns home, his mother makes him promise to find her. When Jeff is bushwhack...

  • The Hellbound Man

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    THE HELLBOUND MAN

    Jim Benton had come to think of himself as the hellbound man because he seemed to be headed in that direction. But there were some interesting stops along the way. One such stop ...

  • Hunt the Killers Down

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    Hunt the Killers Down

    The War Between the States had just ended. But the war between Jeff Braden and the killers who had murdered his folks was just beginning. What he didn’t know was tha...

  • The Last of the Fighting Farrells

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    THE LAST OF THE FIGHTING FARRELLS

    The Haggan brothers were all cocky, mean bastards. They felt they were above the law and that anyone who got in their way or crossed them, would pay. ...

  • Maben

    MABEN

    The man who called himself John Parker never actually admitted that his real name was Frank Maben. And old Al Maben, the only one who would have known for sure, had been shot from the brush by an unknown killer as he sat on his front p...

  • The Man Called Bowdry

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    THE MAN CALLED BOWDRY

    Not much is known for certain about the man called Bowdry. The bare facts are as follows. Sometime around 1880 he rode into Gray Buttes, Nevada--a long forgotten town--stayed for...

  • Rebel with a Gun

    REBEL WITH A GUN

    He was fifteen when the Civil War started, nineteen when it ended. His parents were dead by then, their farm sold for the taxes. The girl he loved had married a boy he hated. Nothing seemed right. So he headed for Texas with...

  • Riding for Revenge

    RIDING FOR REVENGE

    Another wandering tale of revenge in the Old West begins with the brutal murder of Frank and Pearl Ryden and the wounding of their only son on the lonely Kansas prairie. They had come west after the Civil War looking for pe...



  • Shiloh Stark

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    SHILOH STARK

    In one of the bloodiest battles of the War Between the States, he became known as Shiloh Stark by outshooting everyone else in his outfit. After the war he roamed the world in search ...

  • Shoot to Kill

    Mark Reston had never set out to be a killer. But there were those who just wouldn’t have it any other way. And now there were five more men that he had to kill. They should have left him alone or made sure he was dead the first time. He was tired ...

  • Six-Gun Serenade

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    SIX-GUN SERENADE

    Jed Baker and Bill Hicken rode with Quantrill in the early days of the Civil War. After the massacre at Lawrence, Kansas, Bill Hicken switched sides and became a Union spy. During ...

  • Son of a Gunfighter

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    SON OF A GUNFIGHTER

    Dan Whitton’s father was the most hunted and desperate killer the west had ever known -- not hunted by the law, but by the man who had destroyed his chance of living in peace...

  • The Vultures

    On Sale for a limited time! Normally $7.99!THE VULTURESA tale set in the Old West just after the Civil War, when a gang of bushwhackers picks on the wrong man.Bart Hooker told himself his luck had to change. He meant for the better. It got a lot wors...

  • Wild Country

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    WILD COUNTRY

    Jeff Pickett didn’t even have enough money to buy himself a good warm winter coat when the dying gambler rode up to his campfire with an offer he couldn’t afford to refuse. The $10,...

  • A Few Dead Men

    Wearing a badge and a Colt .45, Ben Cobbett had tamed some of the wildest towns in the West. When he stopped in the isolated desert town of Rockville to give himself and his tired horse a little rest, he wasn’t looking for another wild town to tame...

  • The Bounty Hunters

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    THE BOUNTY HUNTERS

    His name was Dan Britton, but he used other names -- Ben Travis and Rex Farley among them -- because both lawmen and outlaws hunted him for the bounty Sam Grayson had put on his h...

  • The Nose: Murder by Detective

  • Rubeck's Raiders

    Rubeck's Raiders The Civil war divided the country and tore families apart. After the war, two half brothers became legendary gunfighters and cowboys in the old West--and deadly enemies. Rubeck's Raiders, a confederate army unit, were so brutal, eve...



  • Wild Desert Rose

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    Wild Desert Rose

    In the fall of 1874, a beautiful half-breed Indian girl named Rose Wilder shoots the most powerful man of a small town accidentally in a quarrel. Then to escape the lust and rage of ...

  • Curly Bill and Ringo

    Curly Bill and Ringo Why did the legendary gunfighter, Ringo, come to Boot Hill? Rumors and innuendo ignite the small frontier town. Did the wealthy rancher, Willy Gibson, hire him to combat the cattle rustlers? Was he here to even up some old grudge...

  • The Evil Twin

    THE JAKE CARD MYSTERIES The series where freedom of speech makes its last stand against the forces of political correctness, which is government-controlled speech and government-controlled behavior. Something is very wrong. Jake Card has been seen le...

  • The Deadly and the Dead

    THE DESTINO DETECTIVES SERIES VOLUME 4 On a dark rainy night in 1947, big ugly detective Hugo Wade shoots in haste and four young WEEPING WIDOWS give him no time to repent at leisure. Then a mysterious killer, working alone and often under cover of d...

  • Mata Hari's Daughter

  • Jackie the Stripper

    THE JAKE CARD MYSTERIES The series where freedom of speech makes its last stand against the forces of political correctness, which is government-controlled speech and government-controlled behavior. Dubbed THE GREAT DETECTIVE by a spiteful Pinky, Car...

  • The Great American Giveaway Rush

    Card always wanted to be a nice guy like Spade or Marlowe someday when he grew up. He never quite made it because he kept running into people who, as Card himself once put it, "just seem to bring out the me in me." Down on his luck, Card reluctantly ...

  • Death of a Nation

    THE JAKE CARD MYSTERIES The series where freedom of speech makes its last stand against the forces of political correctness, which is government-controlled speech and government-controlled behavior. During Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s May, 2...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Van Holt has published 47 books.

Van Holt does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Men from Missouri, was published in October 2014.

The first book by Van Holt, Death of a Nation, was published in August 2011.

No. Van Holt does not write books in series.
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