Slocum Giant 2013: Slocum and the Silver City Harlot

Authors: Logan, Jake
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC033000
ISBN: 9781101601860, Related ISBNs: 0515153540, 1101601868, 9780515153545, 9781101601860
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 256,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: Slocum trades lead with some low-down claim jumpers…

Marianne Lomax stands to inherit a huge silver claim—as soon as she gets past a few problems. Thieves are after the claim, the assay office has burned down, and the only copy of the deed is hidden.
 
John Slocum has problems of his own—trying to explain a corpse he was unwittingly transporting to Tombstone. But when his former lover Marianne asks for help, he takes on the claim jumpers. And when her son befriends a headstrong young man named Billy McCarty, Slocum steps in to straighten the kid out…
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