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Gentleman Joe's Moonlight Matinee

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Gentleman Joe's Moonlight Matinee

Or, The Wild-Cat of Whisky Gap

A severed foot. A dead dandy. And a woman who's one step ahead of everyone. Gentleman Joe rides into Whisky Gap—and the mystery bites back.

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A box with no sender. A body with no answers. A mystery that cuts to the bone.

Joseph Gentry—the Gilt-Edged Sport—doesn't rattle easy.

He's tracked killers through mountains and mesas, faced down men with guns and men with lies, and he knows the difference between a puzzle worth solving and one that'll get him killed. But Whisky Gap is a town on the edge of violence, where mine owners and desperate laborers circle each other like wolves, and the wrong question asked of the wrong person could light a fuse nobody can outrun.

When a mysterious box arrives addressed to the slickest dandy in town, Gentry forces his way to the truth—and finds something no one expected: a perfectly preserved human foot, severed from a living woman, packed in straw and shipped like a keepsake.

Before he can make sense of it, the foot vanishes. And so does Dandy Dick—facedown in a spreading pool of blood.

Now Gentry is chasing a killer whose footprint is small and graceful, a woman who moves like a ghost and strikes like a blade. Her name is Edna Carstone. Her lawyer is one of his oldest friends—and he won't say a word.

The closer Gentry pushes, the harder the walls go up.

Can he cut through the lies in time—or will Whisky Gap bury its secrets along with him?