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Education, Miss Dempsey believes, is the key to rehabilitating criminals. In particular, she takes this to mean her unique method of teaching at Miss Dempsey's School for Gunslingers. But what self-respecting bad guy can take a town like Destiny seriously when the jail has only three walls? The little town seems to be a magnet for anyone and everyone who's on the wrong side of the law. Thimbleriggers use Destiny as a place to con the citizens--and each other. Underhanded tonic sellers escalate their claims to the public from a universal tonic that will cure all ills to a powerful potion that's able to raise the dead. Destiny's politicians, of course, run the crookedest elections in the Old West. Even the contest for Miss Dempsey's firm but fair hand is as devious as a courtship can get. Parnham's fast-paced, humorous story about a deliciously criminal frontier community won't fail to delight.
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