Some Liar

Into the sun-scorched hamlet of Yellow Jacket, Arizona rides Robert Winchester McTabb, a purveyor of mortality's bookends—peddling ornate cradles and coffins with the sardonic slogan 'catching 'em coming and going.' This silver-tongued charlatan meets his match in Celie Sterling, whose desperation over reputation-damaging documents held by the odious Sheldon Lewis Kellard ignites a deadly proposition: she'll purchase McTabb's finest coffin if he dispatches its intended occupant. Yet McTabb's bravado masks profound cowardice, forcing him into Celie's protective shadow as threats multiply—most notably from the volatile gunslinger High Spade McQueen. A misadventure involving suspicious horse acquisitions nearly sees McTabb lynched as a thief before his exoneration. When he falsely claims credit for Kellard's demise (actually perpetrated by McQueen), Celie pierces his web of deceit but offers absolution after extracting his trembling vow of future honesty—an improbable redemption forged in the crucible of Southwestern dust.