A Gentleman in Hell

by Elena Sandidge

Doc follows the Earps to Tombstone, Arizona in search of new poker games. He’s looking for excitement and he gets more than he ever asked for when the Earps run into the Clantons and MacLaurys. They’re not just ranchers, they’re part of a gang of stage robbers and cattle rustlers that are helping to earn Tombstone the nickname of ‘Hell’. To top it all no one can trust the county sheriff who’s in on the game and happy to let the gang ride. Will Doc help Marshal Earp keep the peace or will too many poker games find him on the other side of the law?

118 pages, ebook

First published December 7, 2013

About the author

I'm the author of A Gentleman in Hell, a novel celebrating the life of dentist and gunfighter Doc Holliday.

I was brought up in Scotland but I currently live in Kentucky.

I love riding horses and enjoy long trail rides and beach gallops. I'm passionate about the history of the Old West.

Reviews

[Lone Gunmen Publishers · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well-written and interesting but lacked research. Of course, this was not intended to be a biography of John Henry Holliday. I appreciated a number of insights into Doc and the Earps but where I think it failed the most was falling under the illusion that Holliday was an Earp lapdog and a neophyte to the West and simply would not survive without Wyatt. In reality, he was only physically in the same towns as Wyatt for a couple of years and that not even consecutively. It was often Wyatt who wrote repeatedly to Holliday to get him to come and join him in some venture or other. Holliday certainly didn't hang after him like a half-whipped dog. Holliday kept the train rails hot and had no compunction of traveling on his own to parts well apart from any of the Earps and seemed to thrive most any place he went. Do I still recommend the book? Yes. It's just falls short of being the Holliday of what (granted little) research reveals.

[Cat LeFey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not my usual genre, but a hermit I know recommended it, and Val Kilmer was my gay awakening, so here I am.
This is basically the movie Tombstone, but without the boring, forced love story plotline, and a much more tolerable Wyatt Earp.
Fans of westerns will like this retelling, with all the grit and violence expected, as well as insight into our beloved rake.

[Kaj Samuelsson · Rating 5 out of 5]

A really good book. It made Doc Holliday look so real, that is what I like about this book and I look forward to the next in the series.