Always obliged to help pretty widows, Slocum lends a hand when a Yankee lady reporter needs his help on a fruitless assignment about claim-jumpers. But soon he learns that no news isn't always good news.
From the first chapter I could tell this was a stand-out book in the series. The dialogue was more cleverly done than most and set up an interesting scenario in which Slocum finds himself assisting a woman who's just arrived in Nevada from the east, and gets involved in conflicts involving miners and crooked politics in a 49er-type of boom town. The book moves right along with non-stop action and nicely contrasting characters, for a very pleasant spell of entertainment.
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