Book Review: Bad Medicine by Paul Bagdon

Westerns have been my favourite genre ever since an uncle introduced me to Oliver Strange’s Sudden series in my teens. I read all ten novels by Strange, as well as another five by Frederick H. Christian—one of many pen names of the late Frederick William Nolan—who did a fine job of bringing the eponymous gunfighter back to life.

Since then, I have read Westerns every year, though not as many over the past couple of decades as my attention shifted to other writers and genres. Even so, I’m always looking for Western fiction. I was therefore delighted to come across a new author, Paul Bagdon, who appears to have written around fifteen series and standalone novels, though there may well be more. I also read online that Bagdon has published more than 250 stories and articles in several magazines.