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[in ascending order from earliest to latest work published. Each listing includes later editions and printings]
1929. Tumbling River Range
1930. The Keeper of Red Horse Pass
1933. The Silver Bar Mystery
1940. The Red Head from Sun Dog
1946. Wolf Creek Valley
1946. The Trouble Trailer
1957. Ghost Guns
1959. Silver Buckshot
1960. Dynamite Days
1962. Diamond Hitch
1964. Double Trouble
1978. Red Trail of a Forty-One
1964. Valley of Suspicion

About the Author:
W. C Tuttle is famous for his western novels featuring Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens (just two of many characters he put down on page). He enjoyed writing (naturally!) and after a long evening's work, would sit back and tell of the things that happened in the old cowtowns and describe the people he had met.

W.C Tuttle rode into the sunset in 1969 in his 82nd year

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• Tumbling River Range [top]
  First published in 1929, June in Great Britain by Collins
  Reprinted August 1929, July 1930, April 1931, Sept.1931, May 1932, March 1933, April 1934, April, 1935
  Reprinted on September 10, 2010 by Kessinger Publishing in paperback, 252pp, ISBN 1162800437
  Reprinted on October 27, 2013 by Literary Licensing in hardback, 252pp, ISBN 1258967103

Storyline: Joe Rich is found by his best man drunk and incapable in the Arapaho bar on the evening of his wedding. The ceremony is accordingly abandoned. Joe resigns his post as sherriff, says good-bye to his intended bride, Peggy Wheeler, and rides off from Pinnacle City. Jim Wheeler, Peggy's father, is subsequently found dead, apparently having slipped from the saddle on a rough track; his money is missing, and Joe was the last person seen in his company. Is his death more than accidental? An unknown horseman, to all appearances a fugitive, blunders into Hashknife and Sleepy, who need no introduction to "Wild West" readers, as they struggle towards shelter in a rainstorm. Who was this mystery rider of the night? Was it Joe Rich?

1932, William Collins Sons & Co., hbk
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• The Keeper of Red Horse Pass [top]
  First published in October, 1930
  Second impression published in December, 1930
  Third impression published in October, 1931
  Fourth impression published in November, 1931
  Fifth impression published in July, 1932
  Sixth impression published in 1932 in Great Britain by William Collins Sons in hardback with dustjacket, 252pp
  Published in 1948 by the World Publishing Co.
  Published on February 4, 1992 in Great Britain by Chivers Large Print in hardback, 256pp, ISBN 0745145116

Contents:
1. Take-A-Chance Kendall
2. Sheep-Flood
3. The Mortgaged Valley
4. Cultus Comes Trailing
5. Uncle Jimmy Gets the Low-Down
6. Cultus Meets the Folk
7. Blaze Interrupts A Lady
8. "The Gittinest Son-of-a-Gun!"
9. Cultus Cracks A Ten-Minute Egg
10. Misbranded
11. The Gun on the Window Sill
12. Cultus Swings A Mean Gun
13. Tightening Ropes
14. Bad News Gets Up Speed
15. Looting and Death
16. Bullets and Blazes
17. The Canyon of Death
18. Just "Bad News" Hennery Buker
19. 'Twixt Sky and Death
20. Evidence
21. A Running-Fool Horse
22. Barter and Double-Cross
23. Thoroughbred
24. The Man Who Played 'Possum
25. Clean Slate

• Wolf Creek Valley [top]
  Published in 1946 in Great Britain in hardback by Collins, published for their Wild West Club, with dustjacket, 160pp, no ISBN

Storyline: Adventure in the West: Those two wandering cowboys Hashknife Hartley and his buddy Sleepy Stevens are surely the most popular characters in all Western fiction. Together they have made Mr. W. C. Tuttle's stories famous the world over. Here they are again, with their humorous wisecracks, their shrewdness and courage, in a grand new story.
They come to Wolf Creek Valley to find that a crime wave has suddenly struck the little town of Lobo Butte turning it into a jittery, scared-to-death community where every one's trigger finger is twitching nervously and the local dance hall is requisitioned daily for inquests. Hashknife and Sleepy stay right on the job until that group of local bad mean known as the wolf pack is run to Earth and finally obliterated

• The Trouble Trailer [top]
  First published in October 1946 in Great Britain by Collins in hardback with dustjacket
  Reprinted in August 1949 in Great Britain by Collins in hardback with dustjacket
  Reprinted in November 1971 in Great Britain by Collins in hardback with dustjacket, 160pp, ISBN 0002477971. Original price when first sold: 55p net

Storyline: The "trouble trailer" was what Sleepy Stevens called his friend Hashknife in a moment of exasperation. Sleepy wanted-or pretended he wanted - to hurry away from the troubled atmosphere of Bitter River country. But so many strange and tragic things were happening there that Hashknife just couldn't keep his big nose out of the mess. The trail led to trouble enough, and was destined to take these two famous Western characters right into the midst of the struggle between the sheep men and the men on the cattle range.

"Got another job for you," Sheriff Humboldt said to his deputy, Art Ingram. "Guess you'll have to ride out to the Slash B and serve another assault-and-battery warrant on Mike Riley. Old man Harper...I guess Riley beat him up pretty bad."
"Jess Harper is a good man," Art Ingram said coldly. "Lee Benson and Riley are pushing him and a lot of other old-timers too damned hard, and I don't like it."
All trace of cordiality vanished from the Sheriff's face, and he said grimly, "I'm afraid you'll have to keep your personal feelings out of this, Art. Lee Benson is a big man in this county - a bigger man than even Otto Beck." This was the clashing of loyalties which Ingram had seen in the making for some time. Otto Beck, sometime owner of the Slash B, for whom both Art and the Sheriff had worked for years before he had sold out to the Easterner, Lee Benson, had long been the political boss of the county, serving as chairman of the Board of Commissioners. Art had been proud to serve under both Beck and Sheriff Humboldt, but now it seemed that Humboldt had transferred his loyalty along with the sale of the ranch. For a moment Art was tempted to tear the badge from his vest and fling it on the sheriff's desk, but he couldn't bring himself to break completely with his old friend. Besides, there were honest men in the county who depended on him to protect their interests....

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• Ghost Guns [top]
  First published in 1957 in Great Britain in hardback with dustjacket by Collins for their Wild West Club

Storyline: Henry Harrison Conroy, former vaudevillian, is Sheriff of Tonto City, Arizona. He never intended to be - he only turned up in Tonto to claim his late Uncle's inheritance. Turned out that Henry was amazed by Arizona and Arizona was amazed by Henry. So when there was an election for a new Sheriff, the fun-loving cowboys of the area wrote Henry's name on the county election ballots and the rest is history. He woke up next morning to find he was Sheriff.

Although Henry takes an easygoing view of the world, he’s intelligent with it. And he needs all of his intelligence to solve a series of murders that involve a "blonde angel" who packs a rifle, a gambler’s ghost, a stage-coach robbery, a sale of a gold mine, and some wild gunplay

1964, Fontana Books, pbk
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• Silver Buckshot [top]
  First published in 1959
  Reprinted in 1964 in Great Britain by Fontana Books in paperback, 192pp, no ISBN. Originally priced at 2'6

Storyline: Tiger Smith killed his wife and made off with her 50,000 dollars. He fought like a maniac when arrested and shot and killed two officers. After serving part of a life sentence, he broke jail, crippling two guards. Recaptured, he served two years in solitary confinement. Then he killed a prison guard and escaped...only to be dragged down in a swamp, where he finally committed suicide. The case of Tiger Smith was now closed......

And that's where this story begins!

• Dynamite Days [top]
  First published in 1960 in Great Britain by Collins in hardback with dustjacket, 192pp, no ISBN

Storyline: Twelve sticks of dynamite on a short fuse blew Steve Kane out of a Mexican Jail to freedom. He wasted no time in tracking down the men who framed the charges that had put him there. Joe East and his men at the Quarter Circle JHE range wanted the outfit which Mary Macrae had inherited after the "suicide" of her father, Steve's boss. Only Steve had stood between East and his ambition - and now he was free to fight back

• Diamond Hitch [top]
  First published in 1962 in Great Britain by Collins in their Collins Western series, hardback, 160pp, no ISBN
  Published in 1965 in Great Britain by Fontana in paperback, No. 1120 in their series
  Published in June, 1972 in Great Britain in hardback, 160pp
  Published on August 22, 1974 in Great Britain by HarperCollins in paperback, 160pp, ISBN 0006135501

Story: The Saint is a huge bull of a man with a mane of white hair and eyes as hard as granite. Owner of the Silver Standard gambling saloon and the vast S Bar S ranch, he's reckoned the most powerful man in Rimrock City, and a mean one to quarrel with. When the Travis family, owning a small neighbouring ranch, strike an artesian well which takes water from the S Bar S, the Saint starts a bitter feud with them. Their cattle and horses start disappearing and when a detective is sent to investigate the rustling, he is found dead. Always with a nose for trouble, Hashknife turns up in Rimrock City, to sort things out, only to find three more men shot dead. But the more the evidence points to the Saint as responsible for the killings, the less sure Hashknife is that he's after the right man

• Double Trouble [top]
  First published in 1964 in Great Britain by Collins in hardback with dustjacket, 160pp
  Reprinted in 1974 in Great Britain by Collins in hardback with dustjacket, 160pp, ISBN 0002471531. Original UK retail price: £0.95 net

Story: Lonesome was six feet five inches in his socks. His face was long and bony, with pouchy eyes, a crooked nose and a wide thin-lipped mouth. He was Deputy Sherriff of Red Rock-a job that allowed him to take things easy in a saloon off the main street, until the day when Whizzer Lee met Johnny Bell. For these two young men spelt double trouble-for each other, for Lonesome, for the town's shifty banker and for certain hard types from the Z Bar 8 ranch. It is not long before Lee's reckless nature and Bell's ready fists land them the wrong side of the law, and then we have a tough and clever Western in the best W. C. Tuttle tradition with Lonesome's gun out in a thrilling climax...

• Red Trail of a Forty-One [top]
  First published in 1978 in Great Britain by Robert Hale, London, in hardback with dustjacket, 160pp, ISBN 0709166702 . Copyright 1978, Gene Tuttle (W.C. Tuttle's son). Original UK retail price: £3.25 net.

Story: Sent to San Miguel in the Lobo Valley to investigate, at the request of the Cattlemen's Association, the murder of a cattle detective who had been on the trail of rustled cattle, one-time range detectives Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens find themselves embroiled in a whole series of mystery killings. Al Thompson, the cattle detective, has been gunned down by an unmarked bullet; but after that, four seemingly harmless and upright citizens have been killed with bullets marked with numbers: 1 for the first, 2 for the second, and so on up to four.

Hashknife pokes around, noting minor yet important details, asking apparently pointless questions and piecing together the bits of the jigsaw. There seem at first to be many pieces missing. But at last Hashknife and Sleepy have the whole picture complete.