From dust jacket notes: "With the publication of KING OF SPADES, Frederick Manfred completes the last of the five novels to appear under the overall title of The Buckskin Man Tales. As with the others - Conquering Horse, Lord Grizzly, Riders of Judgment, and Scarlet Plume - Mr. Manfred is once more concerned with the American West, but this time he has chosen as his theme one of the oldest and most tragic myths known to man, the legend of Oedipus..."
