num_pages: 214
description: Dead Man's HandNo one paid any mind to Jack McCall as he unloaded a .44 caliber slug into Wild Bill Hickok's brain at point-blank range. Deadwood's legendary gunslinging marshal was dead, holding a poker hand of aces and eights, a dead man's hand.The question the law wanted to know: was McCall a hired killer or did he kill Hickok to avenge his brother's death?
language: English
title: Aces and Eights: The Legend of Wild Bill Hickok
titlecomplete: Aces and Eights: The Legend of Wild Bill Hickok
genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction, Westerns
ratings_count: 89
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Spur Award
category: Best Historical Novel
publisher: Forge Books