Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 583

THE TIGERS OF NO MAN'S LAND This Beadle and Adams dime novel by Lieut. A. K. Sims concerns lawless No Man's Land between Kansas and Texas. A mysterious peddler arrives in the frontier town of Eli selling cheap jewelry and trinkets. Emerald Green, a reckless Irish gambler and suspected criminal, observes the peddler and becomes convinced he is actually Detective Bob Brentwood in disguise—a man Green believes he previously killed. Saffron Sol, a mysterious money-lender in town, reaches the same conclusion. Green approaches Mayor Grizzly Martin with the information and convinces him to arrest the peddler on a trumped-up charge of unlicensed street vending. With the peddler jailed, Green plants a dynamite time-bomb beneath the jail building, set to explode in thirty minutes, intending to eliminate the detective and establish an alibi by mingling with townspeople beforehand.