Arleen Whelan – MRQE

Kidnapped

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Robert Louis Stevenson’s hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.

Gateway

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.

The Badge of Marshal Brennan

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Jim Davis is a man on the run. He comes across the body of a dead man wearing the badge of a marshal. He buries the body and takes the badge and rides on. At the next town, he is mistaken for the dead man, a legendary marshal named Brennan. The town sent for Marshal Brennan because they were facing a crisis that includes among other things an epidemic. The Stranger decides to stay as a way of hiding from the men chasing him. What he does not realize is that when he takes on the Badge of Marshal Brennan, he takes on the responsibilities of Marshal Brennan.

Charley’s Aunt

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil–where the nuts come from.

The Sun Shines Bright

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

John Ford weaves three “Judge Priest” stories together to form a good- natured exploration of honour and small-town politics in the South around the turn of the century. Judge William Priest is involved variously in revealing the real identity of Lucy Lake, reliving his Civil War memories, preventing the lynching of a youth and contesting the elections with Yankee Horace K. Maydew.

San Antone

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After the Civil War, a cowboy who’s a former Union soldier leads a cattle drive into Mexico now occupied by the French…

Never Wave at a WAC

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many difficulties with the Army lifestyle. Moreover, her ex-husband is working as a consultant with the Army, and he uses his position to disrupt her romantic plans by making her join a group of WACs who are testing new equipment.

Flaming Feather

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A mysterious outlaw known as the Sidewinder, phantom leader of renegade Ute Indians, terrorizes the people of the Arizona Territory in the 1870s. When rancher Tex McCloud has his place burned out, he vows to find and kill the Sidewinder.

Passage West

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted murderer Pete Black take over a small wagon train headed by preacher Jacob Karns. Tensions and hardships grow as the travelers continue to trek toward California across dry, desolate country.

Dear Wife

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In this sequel to Dear Ruth, teenaged Miriam starts a political campaign to nominate Bill Seacroft, her brother-in-law, for state senator in opposition to the local political machine. Unknown to Miriam, said machine nominates her father, Judge Wilkins. As support grows for Bill, the presence of rival candidates under one roof poses problems, especially for Ruth, wife to Bill and daughter of the judge.