What is "longarm"

The Longarm books are a series of western novels featuring the character of Custis Long, who is nicknamed Longarm, a U.S. Deputy Marshal based in Denver, Colorado in the 1880s. The series is written by "Tabor Evans", a house pseudonym used by a number of authors at Jove Books. Lou Cameron helped create the character and wrote a number of the early books in the series. The first book was published in 1978 and new ones are still being added at a rate of approximately one a month, totalling over 400 books in the series. In addition to the regular series, there is a series of "giant editions" which are longer novels.

The Longarm series is a mainstay of the "adult western" genre which arose in the 1970s. These books are distinguished from classical westerns by the inclusion of more explicit sex and violence. In addition to Cameron, other authors known to have written books in the series include Melvin Marshall, Will C. Knott, Frank Roderus, Chet Cunningham, J. Lee Butts, Gary McCarthy, James Reasoner, Jeffrey M. Wallmann, Peter Brandvold and Harry Whittington.

Longarm is the name to four different fictional characters from the Transformers universes.

Longarm can mean:

• Longarm (book series), an adult western book series
• Longarm (quilting), a type of sewing machine
• Long gun, a category of firearm
• Long Arm (webcomic), a comedic serialized webcomic
• Longarm (Transformers), a Transformers character
• Long-arm jurisdiction, a legal term
• Long Arm (G.I. Joe), a G.I. Joe character
• The Long ARM of Gil Hamilton, science fiction short story collection by Larry Niven featuring Gil Hamilton