Category: Mystery
Proud Mary (by BettyHT)
Summary: Adam helps a friend whose spouse was wrongly convicted and executed. The song was the inspiration but has nothing to do with the story itself. Published elsewhere as Deadly Conspiring in a shorter version.
Rating: PG Word count: 3,183
Another Guise (by BettyHT)
Summary: In the eighth story in the Traci Series, there are some who want to disrupt the Ponderosa operations and will use any means to do so. Adam is the first target, but he and Joe wonder who else in the family is in the crosshairs and why. It’s a family drama as they all have to do their best to figure out the mystery villains.
Rating: T
Word Count: 18,955
The Traci Series, links to all stories included within
The Search (by Monette)
Summary: Adam is accused of things he didn’t do. When he finds a strange message left behind in Virginia City, he starts out on a quest to save his identity.
Rating PG. Word count 14,248
The Lovelee Sisters (by MissJudy)
Summary: How can two lovely women showing up in Virginia City, a meeting to award a lucrative timber contract for the Transcontinental Railroad and the Cartwrights fit together? Find out in this mystery.
Rating: K Word Count: 50488
Double Cross (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: This started as a pinecone, Cousin Bette, but needed closure. This is it. Adam met a beautiful woman and the romance progressed rapidly. But was it too rapid, and what else was going on?
Rating = T Word count = 1667
Fragments (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: One man faces execution for a crime he didn’t commit, another suffers a terrible beating, and Proud Mary is at the center of the controversy but can’t help. The whole family will have to work together to untangle the mystery, but the question is whether it will be in time to prevent tragedy. That depends on how much Adam can remember.
Rating = T Word count = 4632
Confession? (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: Joe is hurt and wonders if the dream he had was a dream because it seemed so real. It’s the kind of thing he rather wishes might be true, but then again, could this really be?
Rating = T Word count = 1450
The Ballad of Tahoe Tessie (by sandspur)
Summary: Cattle are being eaten, and their picked-clean skeletons are being deposited near the lake, but when the Cartwrights investigate, they find a lot more than they ever bargained for … and the effects will last forever.
Rating: T (20,000 words)
Dead Ringer (by Inca ‘aka Tye’)
Summary: What is the sinister secret of the mysterious house on the cliff? Adam and Joe are about to find out – the hard way.
WC: 16,570 Rating: T
Dead Men Tell No Tales (by AC1830)
Summary – October challenge – write another worldly story involving one or all the Cartwrights. The unthinkable has happened – all four Cartwrights are dead!
Rating – K, Word count – 2045
Deceit (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: Joe comes up with a scheme to solve Hoss’ romantic troubles and acquires a treasure map too, but the schemes about Adam have the most significant consequences. Edited in more material to the last chapter and added an Epilogue.
rating = T word count = 16,724
Yellow (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: When witnessing a crime, Adam can’t act, and then after the fact, he can’t help the posse and he can’t tell what he knows. Those things give people the wrong impression, but eventually put him in great danger too. The whole family will have to work together to resolve the problem.
rating = T word count = 10,705
Yellow Series, links to stories of this series included.
Premonition (by Inca)
Summary: After sixteen-year-old Adam discovers a mysterious cave, disturbing events follow.
5940 words Rating K
Lay Her Down (by EROS)
Summary: How does a Cartwright react when The Soiled Dove Society goes on the hunt for a man of steel?
This story is sexually explicit; readers who are easily offended should not continue to the story
Rated: MA (2,320 words)
Three Dog Night and Robin stories (by BettyHT)
Summary: Three stories. Three Dog Night — A year after Laura’s treachery with Will, Adam is still feeling the effects from that and the fall from the house he was building for her. He is melancholy and then a tragedy sends him on a quest for justice that turns into something more. Lemon Tree is in two parts. Joe has trouble to resolve in his marriage, Hoss needs a romance, and Adam is being tormented by someone which is the major mystery underlying the whole story. Dark Secrets — issues of hate and prejudice are at the center of this story as nasty stories about Robin’s heritage are spread. There’s a sinister plot by a dastardly villain too that has to be uncovered and stopped.
rating = T WC = 67,057