The Search for Temperance MoonHer husbands were many, her lovers legion. Temperance Moon both awed and scandalized the Arkansas Territory with her beauty, brains and brass -- and died, brutally gunned down on a muddy road. When the prime suspect is found murdered, the case is abruptly closed. Although she runs the most famous whorehouse west of Memphis, Miss Jewel Moon is not made in her mother's image. Unsatisfied with the verdict, she hires crusty ex-marshal Oscar Schiller to follow a cold trail of clues. With his band of cohorts, Schiller unravels a riveting tale of jealousy, blackmail, and deceit that rings the post-Civil War frontier vividly to life. |
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