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DEATH FOR A DOVE
Cash’s girlfriend Lenora receives a mysterious letter from a working girl in Yankton, pleading for help. Limping Lilly Loftus is not one to cry wolf, so Cash agrees to take Lenora.
Before long, their investigations lead them to The Dark Swan , a steamboat on the Missouri. The vessel is hosting not only European royalty but a prestigious high-stakes poker contest.
Attractive Princess Augusta Letitia Fitzosbern has entered the poker competition; her country needs the winnings.
Yet on this boat nothing is going to be plain sailing. There’s an attempted suicide, cardsharp cheating, violence, theft, abduction, betrayal – and death!
And, to make matters worse, there’s the big risk of an international incident.
Before long, their investigations lead them to The Dark Swan , a steamboat on the Missouri. The vessel is hosting not only European royalty but a prestigious high-stakes poker contest.
Attractive Princess Augusta Letitia Fitzosbern has entered the poker competition; her country needs the winnings.
Yet on this boat nothing is going to be plain sailing. There’s an attempted suicide, cardsharp cheating, violence, theft, abduction, betrayal – and death!
And, to make matters worse, there’s the big risk of an international incident.
149 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 1, 2023
About the author
Nik Morton
69 books41 followersNik Morton is the author of a collection of 23 crime short stories collected in Leon Cazador, P.I., a romantic thriller series Catalyst, Catacomb and Cataclysm, Write a Western in 30 Days, three psychic spy Cold War thrillers Mission: Prague, Mission: Tehran, and Mission: Khyber, a romantic crime thriller An Evil Trade, a vampire thriller set in Malta, Chill of the Shadow, and five other collections of his short stories: Gifts from a Dead Race (sci-fi, horror, fantasy), Nourish a Blind Life (sci-fi, horror, fantasy), Visitors (westerns), Codename Gaby (historical), I Celebrate Myself (crime and adventure). He is also the author of the noir western Cash Laramie adventures, Bullets for a Ballot and Coffin for Cash, and two sci-fi novellas in Continuity Girl. His fantasy novels Floreskand: Wings, Floreskand: King and Floreskand: Madurava are co-authored with Gordon Faulkner.
Writing as Ross Morton, Nik has 6 Robert Hale western novels published: Death at Bethesda Falls, Last Chance Saloon, The $300 Man, Blind Justice at Wedlock and Old Guns, and The Magnificent Mendozas. He’s the editor of A Fistful of Legends, 21 stories of the Old West.
He sold his first story in 1971 and has had many articles and 120 short stories published, 88 of them in the 5 collection books.
Nik served in the Royal Navy for over twenty years and now lives in north-east England with his linguist/musician wife Jennifer. Their daughter, son-in-law and grandson live nearby. Nik was Editor in Chief of a US Publisher 2011-2013.
Writing as Ross Morton, Nik has 6 Robert Hale western novels published: Death at Bethesda Falls, Last Chance Saloon, The $300 Man, Blind Justice at Wedlock and Old Guns, and The Magnificent Mendozas. He’s the editor of A Fistful of Legends, 21 stories of the Old West.
He sold his first story in 1971 and has had many articles and 120 short stories published, 88 of them in the 5 collection books.
Nik served in the Royal Navy for over twenty years and now lives in north-east England with his linguist/musician wife Jennifer. Their daughter, son-in-law and grandson live nearby. Nik was Editor in Chief of a US Publisher 2011-2013.
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November 22, 2025
Cash Laramie and his best gal Lenora share an adventure filled with tigers, royal assassins and a Riverboat poker tournament in this entry in the series that was incredibly fun from start to finish.
May 15, 2024
This is far removed from what I’d normally read, but I’m trying to surprise myself, and so thought I’d give it a go. The result is a fun piece of escapism. Yes, it probably helps if you have an affinity with the old west, but there are enough twists and tough guys here to keep the average thriller reader entertained too.
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