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| 100 | 1 | _aHumphreys, Ray | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aOne jump ahead |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier |
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| 490 | 1 | _aProduced from the July 20, 1929 issue of Western Story Magazine. | |
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-05-13 | ||
| 508 | _aRoger Frank | ||
| 520 | _a"One jump ahead by Ray Humphreys" is a Western short story with a crime‑mystery bent, written in the late 1920s. It follows a small‑town sheriff and his deputy as they investigate a mysterious box dug up beneath a bridge, a puzzle that stirs rumors of buried loot and raises the stakes amid local political pressures. Paroled rustler Manuel Perez comes to Sheriff Joe Cook seeking help just as old Grandpa McMeel reports two men digging under the Third Street bridge, a sight that Fred Speers hurriedly “confirms.” The officers find a trench and a dragged trail that vanishes in the creek, and later the sheriff discovers a wallet with a clipping about an old bank robbery—apparently proof the stolen loot was recovered. With the commissioners fretting over elections, the case seems hopeless, but Shorty McKay grows suspicious: Perez’s early release timing doesn’t match his story, the drag marks could hide a peg‑leg footprint, and Speers’s planted clipping points to a staged misdirection. Checking the newspaper files, Shorty finds the clipping freshly cut, then confronts Perez at his new ranch job and recovers a bundle of cash. The truth emerges: Perez and Speers dug up Perez’s own rustling proceeds buried years earlier, not bank loot. Shorty lays out the scheme, the money is seized, and the sheriff’s standing—and reelection prospects—are saved. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cNew York: Street & Smith Corporation, 1929 |
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| 653 | _aShort stories | ||
| 653 | _aWestern stories | ||
| 653 | _aDetective and mystery stories | ||
| 653 | _aSheriffs -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aMcKay, Shorty (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | ||
| 830 | 0 | _aProduced from the July 20, 1929 issue of Western Story Magazine. | |
| 856 | 4 | _uhttps://archive.org/details/western-story-magazine-v-088-n-03-1929-07-20-pp-111-112-135-136 | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76082 |
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