Longarm heads out to Montazuma, New Mexico, where town authorities are dropping like flies. Without a mayor, marshal, or murder suspect, the town seems to have a curse on men of distinctionand with Vice President Arthur about to visit, it's up to Longarm to put the kibosh on the killing.
Getting help from the dead marshal's sweetheart, Longarm suspects the curse is nothing more than a vicious case of gold feverand he's got the cure right in his holsters...