A friendly poker game at the Red Elk Saloon ends with gubernatorial candidate Oren Perley dead at the table. The other three players claim a disguised stranger shot Perley from the doorway and fled. The only clue is a fifth ace found near the dead man's feet. Fierce gunmen swarm into Leland intent on avenging Perley's death. Drew Woodson's mining partner, Tommy Garth, is wrongfully blamed, but the remaining poker players, afraid to tell the truth, are sticking to their fabricated story. Woodson must save Tommy and find the real killer before the witnesses are eliminated one by one or an innocent man is hanged. The vigilantes soon find that Woodson, too, has his reasons for wanting Perley dead. Now that he's saved Tommy, will he be able to save himself from the hangman's noose?
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A thrilling tale of old-style justice (and injustice!), The Fifth Ace is highly recommended. -The Midwest Book Review --The Midwest Book Review
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Loretta Jackson and Vickie Britton are a sister co-authoring team. The sisters are drawn to the West, which has provided a background for much of their work. Loretta, who taught school at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, now resides in Junction City, Kansas. Vickie, whose interests include western history and criminal justice, lives in Hutchinson, Kansas. The Fifth Ace is Loretta and Vickie's fifth book for Avalon, and the second in the Luck of the Draw series.
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A thrilling tale of old-style justice (and injustice!),
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This review is from: The Fifth Ace (Luck of the Draw Western) (Hardcover)
The second novel in the "Luck of the Draw" western series, The Fifth Ace is an exciting, action-packed adventure capturing the roughshod spirit of the Old West. A supposedly friendly poker game ends with a murdered candidate for governor, and the only clue left behind is a fifth ace by the victim's feet. A swarm of vigilante gunmen seek retribution for the murder. The other poker players finger Drew Woodson's mining partner, an innocent man, for the crime. Woodson must track down the real killer before his partner is wrongfully hanged or the witnesses are themselves murdered one by one! A thrilling tale of old-style justice (and injustice!), The Fifth Ace is highly recommended.
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THE FIFTH ACE was well written with a great plot. It is second in a series of three and I plan now to get the first and the third of that series.The Fifth Ace
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