New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this Scottish playwright, set in the 19th-century American Southwest, a setting filled with thieves, Native Americans, and former Civil War soldiers. Missy is a nickname for opium, and this is the story of Dol McQueen, a brassy teenage prostitute struggling to hang on to a fortune in stolen opium. 295 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 9780374199838.