Aces and Eights - Hardcover

Estleman, Loren D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385174691 ISBN 13: 9780385174695

Publisher: Doubleday, 1981

Synopsis

Recounts the trial of Jack McCall, the man hanged for the murder of Wild Bill Hickok

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Review:

Quicksilver dialogue, incisive characterizations, and canny interweaving of observations and events. Estleman's eye, ear and hand are in perfect sync. "Washington Post Book World on The Detroit Series"" -Quicksilver dialogue, incisive characterizations, and canny interweaving of observations and events. Estleman's eye, ear and hand are in perfect sync.- --Washington Post Book World on The Detroit Series "Quicksilver dialogue, incisive characterizations, and canny interweaving of observations and events. Estleman's eye, ear and hand are in perfect sync." --Washington Post Book World on The Detroit Series "Quicksilver dialogue, incisive characterizations, and canny interweaving of observations and events. Estleman's eye, ear and hand are in perfect sync."--"Washington Post Book World "on "The Detroit Series"

About the Author:

Loren D. Estleman was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a BA degree in English Literature and Journalism in 1974. In 2002, the university awarded him an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters for his contribution to American literature. He is the author of more than fifty novels in the categories of mystery, historical western, and mainstream, and has received four Western Writers of American Golden Spur Awards, three Western Heritage Awards, and three Shamus Awards. He has been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Britain's Silver Dagger, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. In 2003, the mammoth Encyclopedia of Detective Fiction named him the most critically acclaimed writer of U.S. detective

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0385174691
• ISBN 13: 9780385174695
• Binding: Hardcover