New York: Henry Holt, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A "story of murder, revenge, frontier culture and history set in Arkansas and the Indian Nations territory of the early 1890s. Celebrated madam Temperance Moon has been brutally slain. Her daughter, bordello superstar Jewel Moon, is dissatisfied with the purported resolution of the crime and, although the case has been proclaimed closed by 'hanging judge' Isaac Parker, she hires former U.S. deputy marshall Oscar Schiller to investigate further. . . Witty, literate, resounding with ear-perfect dialect, and thoroughly absorbing, the novel excels as a depiction of the rapidly vanishing frontier, accurately reflecting the interaction of whites and Native Americans, the rising dominance of railroads and the devotion of rough-and-tough lawmen to their duties." (Publishers Weekly) INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in 1991 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-805013873.