Thu, Jan 1, 1959
Yancy's plans for a quiet evening gambling at Madame Francine's are ruined by Romilly Vale, a vengeance-crazed blonde who empties who revolver in his general direction. After recovering from the knock on the head administered by Francine, she realizes that the Yancy Derriger she wished to kill was another man entirely - an impostor who stole her family fortune. Yancy's attempt to find the impostor are short-circuited when he's arrested for the bank robbery and murder perpetrated by men dressed as Yancy and Pahoo.
Thu, Jan 15, 1959
Pretty Coco LaSalle, a female pirate, attacks and robs Yancy's riverboat. The most important object stolen was a diamond necklace belonging to the government of Mexico. Yancy agrees to help John Colton recover the jewelry and learns that Coco's price is very reasonable - that Derringer escort her to the masked ball for Mardi Gras. Unfortunately, one of LaSalle's men is unhappy with the bargain and is determined to steal the necklace from the pirate queen before the jewelry can be returned to its rightful owner.
Thu, Jan 22, 1959
A protection racket is attempting to gain control of the French Market. Administrator Colton is helpless because no one will step forward with an official accusation, because the merchants are terrified after one of Miss Duval's servants is killed trying to prevent her flower stand from being destroyed. Yancy and Pahoo decide to help the stall owners battle the thugs.
Thu, Jan 29, 1959
Hard-partying heir to the Russian throne breezes into the Big Easy but assassins offer uncharacteristic Southern hospitality. The Reconstruction authorities implore Yancy & Pahoo to protect the tiny hothead, however containing the trigger-happy, girl-crazy future czar in wild post-Civil War New Orleans won't be an easy assignment.
Thu, Feb 5, 1959
The winner of New Orleans' $100,000 lottery is murdered, but the lottery administrator is convinced he was the target of the gunmen. Yancy plots to force the killer to reveal who hired him and, hopefully, whether the lottery itself is really on the level by rounding up the Bourbon Street riffraff to act like a lynch mob.
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Thu, Feb 12, 1959
Caped clown pummeling ladies for their braids panics New Orleans. A Justice League ultimatums the Federal occupation force stop the crime wave or withdraw, so they can execute vigilante action. This immoral minority led by a carpetbagger from Providence, targets pro gambler Yancy's activities too. Ex-Confederate officer/Southern gentleman Yancy opposes mob justice, so he and the deadly Pahoo protect French Quarter womenfolk while pursuing the clown-masked madman.
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Thu, Feb 19, 1959
With the Mississippi River rising towards a record flood, the only thing that could save New Orleans would be to punch a whole in a levee up-river. Such an action would inundate Lady Charity's new plantation and she and her men aren't willing to allow the government to take the necessary action. Worse, an escaped convict and his stolen Gatling gun have become her strange allies.
Thu, Feb 26, 1959
Yancy wins a half-share of a Virginia City silver mine and must immediately utilize its assets when the boiler on his riverboat blows up. His new partner explains that the mine played out years ago, but Yancy decides to explore the old diggings and discovers that the workers from a neighboring mine have borrowed into his and are stealing valuable ore. He also discovers that the neighboring mine owner has framed him for murdering his lovely partner.
Thu, Mar 5, 1959
Bow & arrow attack on Custer jails Pahoo, giving Yancy more reason to hate his equally foppish, former Civil War foe. Custer pooh-poohs Yancy's explanation that the weapons are from a different tribe than Pahoo's Pawnees. Publicity-mad Custer is visiting New Orleans while on 1 year court-martial suspension, hoping to win support of the occupying Yankee military administrator for a quick return to frontier genocide. The lethal Pahoo's being a speech-impaired Native American puts him at a disadvantage to the fearless, cinnamon-hair-oiled General.
Thu, Mar 12, 1959
When Mississippi riverboats sink in record numbers, Yancy investigates whether aggressive Gilded Age monopolizer Emerson lurks behind the crime waves. The Southern Belle, owned by a fiery redhead, is the latest victim, but she opposes rival paddle-wheel master Yancy's tactics, which center on someone marking false twain to cause shipwrecks.
Thu, Mar 19, 1959
Yancy is arrested on a charge of high treason. His crime: selling John Wilkes Booth the gun that killed President Abraham Lincoln. While Derringer is held in solitary confinement, his friends must refute forged evidence and find where the his matched set of pistols, the ones alleged purchased by Booth, were hidden when renegades ransacked his plantation during the Civil War.
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Thu, Mar 26, 1959
Yancy is forced to reimburse four gamblers when their high-stakes poker game on his riverboat is robbed by a pair of beautiful thieves. Derringer traces the blonde crooks to an old mansion where he learns that the pair were targeting pickpockets, crooked gamblers and thieves to pay for a half-dozen orphans that Elsie Tulliver had adopted. Yancy arranges for photographer Mathew Brady and pickpocket Jody Barker to help him with a scheme to raise money for Elsie's children.
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Thu, Apr 2, 1959
When renegades attack peaceful Pawnee villages, Pahoo, Yancy and Colorado Charlie travel to Washington, D.C. with John Colton's letter of introduction to try to enforce the terms of government's treaty with the tribe. An administrator of the War Department, along with his gunrunning crony, attempt to obstruct Pahoo's mission by taking political, social and violent steps against him.
Thu, Apr 9, 1959
Yancy agrees to "shoot" Charles LeBow in a fake duel in order to smoke out the man who's trying to kill LeBow for real. When, at the "funeral", the body of LeBow's partner is discovered in what should have been LeBow's empty coffin, the City Administrator doubts Yancy's tale and plans to lock him in prison as a material witness. Yancy has other ideas, however.
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Thu, Apr 16, 1959
Pirate queen Coco LaSalle convinces Yancy to back her fighter against the mighty heavyweight called the Tennessee Slasher. While Derringer organizes the illegal fight away from the city administrator's prying eyes, he also searches for a cache of Spencer repeating rifles recently stolen from the federal armory at Port Hudson.
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Thu, Apr 30, 1959
When John Colton is promoted and ordered back to Washington, General Wheeler takes his place with orders to break up a nation-wide counterfeiting gang that is based in New Orleans. Yancy objects to the general's tactics of raiding every gambling house in the Crescent City and impounding their patrons' money until it can be combed for bogus bills and is thrown in jail. Even locked in a cell Derringer manages to learn that the source of the phony currency is a criminal gang masquerading as army officers.
Thu, May 7, 1959
Yancy receives an urgent letter from a friend who once saved his life and his now on trial for a murder he didn't commit. He, Pahoo and Colorado Charlie travel to Missouri and learn that Jesse James has framed his friend for the crime. By the time Yance and his friends arrive, he has only 24 hours to prove that his friend has been falsely convicted.
Thu, May 14, 1959
While walking to Madame Francine's to meet with a committee of African-Americans, John Colton is disconcerted when he notices that all the clubs and shops and closed and no one else is on the street. From Obadiah and Lily Rose, he learns that a murder will be committed that night, on St. John's Eve, and voodoo would be used to cover the crime. Colton learns that Charles Hammond, a visitor to New Orleans has received a voodoo doll. When Colton discovers that a voodoo rite is being held on the old Dubois plantation and Hammond is engaged to the younger Dubois sister, the administrator insists that Yancy take him to observe the ritual.
Thu, May 21, 1959
Yancy's plans to visit his silver mine in Virginia City are abruptly changed when Mei Ling, aka Miss Mandarin, is arrested for opium smuggling. She claims she ordered firecrackers from San Francisco and someone substituted the drug en route. Even though the New Orleans federal administrator believes he has an open and shut case, Yancy agrees to travel to California and investigate the shipping company.
Thu, May 28, 1959
Yancy and Pahoo take a train to Virginia City to check on a silver mine Yancy is part owner of. On the way, a woman and a man try to prevent their arrival. When he gets there Yancy finds a gravestone with his name on it, and learns that the daughter of his partner in the mine has been kidnapped.
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Thu, Jun 4, 1959
Yancy wins two tickets to Promintory, Utah, to attend the celebration where the transcontinental railroad would be linked. He learns that conspirators representing freight lines and stagecoaches plan to destroy one of the trains in order to continue providing their slower, more expensive service and his name has been used to purchase the dynamite that will be used to create the disaster.